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Friends' Newsletter 19 F R I E N D S of the National Arboretum Canberra Newsletter 19 / December 2012 Dear Friends Festive greetings to you all! Meeting members voted for a small change to our logo so that the colours of our leaves will match the colours What a fantastic year it has been—the best Festival of in the new Arboretum logo. This change is important as the Forests yet, more and more visitors coming to Open we will need to show that we are connected to the Days @ Arboretum, the highest number ever of people Arboretum in many ways. visiting the National Bonsai and Penjing Collection of Australia and numerous other volunteer e!orts in 2013 is going to be busy. Providing volunteer guides training the "rst group of new Arboretum guides, will be an important task that we undertake to promote fundraising, tree measuring, frog watching, working the Arboretum into the future. Do you want to be a bees and "nishing up with our volunteers helping with guide once the Arboretum is open? Please let us know if the Voices in the Forest concert (see following pages). you have not done so already. No prior knowledge is We've done all this as we've watched the fabulous new required as all the information needed is provided. The Visitor Centre being built, the reshaping of the next training course commences on 14 January 2013 amphitheatre and building of the new Pavilion. and "nishes 21/22 January. There will be a course later Information about the opening and the community in the year for more new guides. We have close to 100 festival will be provided to you in the new year. volunteers signed up but room for plenty more, so I'm looking forward to hearing from you. Many of us have contributed to recordings collected by Jyll Bradley for her Centenary work called City of Trees. We will continue with tasks like tree monitoring, frog Among the many questions she asked were two that I watching, explaining the National Bonsai and Penjing will always remember: Why are you so passionate about Collection of Australia, our working bees and of course the Arboretum; and What is your favourite tree and planning for key events like the Festival of the Forests why? The answers about our passion for the Arboretum and other fund raisers. Our goal is as always to can be complex. I distilled my ideas to being about encourage community involvement in the Arboretum. growth and hope for the future and my favourite tree is A hearty thank you to all the wonderful volunteers the one I am looking at now. What are your answers to throughout the year and to all our members who are those questions? Please send them to me by the end of the best ambassadors for this sensational project. January 2013 for inclusion in the next Newsletter. See you at the Arboretum in 2013! The Arboretum Team has introduced a new logo for the Jocelyn Plovits National Arboretum Canberra and at our last General Chair I N T H I S I S S U E . Voices in the Forest 2012: our volunteers page 2 Voices in the Forest 2012: the concert page 3 Information and Research Group page 7 Friends' calendars still available page 7 An artist at the Arboretum page 8 Forest talk page 9 Cork oaks in focus page 11 The world of arboreta 8 page 13 1 Voices in the Forest 2012: our volunteers A R E P O R T B Y J O C E L Y N P L O V I T S I think you would all agree that Bob Winell sponsored a wonderful concert again this year and Damiana Vigone was an extraordinary event manager working within a complex construction site. Our volunteers helped with seat set up and numbering, Volunteers awaiting instructions in the Friends' tent. de-numbering and seat collapsing, ushering, providing Below: Valiant Friends working out in the hot sun, still children's activities, program selling, assisting the numbering seats until after 1.00pm. PHOTOS BY LINDA MULDOON disabled and the provision of information and solutions to problems as needed. A special thank you to Linda Beveridge who was the volunteer organiser on 24 November, Jeanette Hahn who co-ordinated program sales and Bronwyn Halbisch who was still there at 9.30pm waiting for Linda to return. Linda had gone to help a couple, one of whom had a mobility problem, and she waited with them until the NRMA arrived to get their car going. They left the site at approximately 10.30pm. The Friends raised over $1000 in book and calendar sales—all going towards the development of the Arboretum. I think it would be fair to say it was very hot weather and Edstein, Jacquie Elliot, Julie Evans, Jill Freeman, Viki Fox, the volunteers did get tired, however I have already Jeanette Hahn, Bronwyn Halbisch, Mary Hodgkinson, been in touch with Dami and the Arboretum Team and Bev Kaiser, Tralie Kimlin, Shirley Krall, Naomi Landau, expect that arrangements will be much more settled Michelle Lauder, Ermelindo Maculan (Mac), John after the opening of the Arboretum in February. Maddock, Judith Maddock, Minha Matuszyk, Kate So many thanks to all the wonderful volunteers: Linda McCarthy, Carmel Maher, Jan Morgan, Linda Muldoon, Beveridge, John Bromhead, Tina Bromhead, Sue Brown, David Nicholls, Larraine Nicholls, Chris Payne, Jim Payne, Michael Burton, Julie Butler, Robyn Callaway, Jenny Jocelyn Plovits, Sanya Ritchie, Frank Stevens, Reet Vallak, Cantlon, Moira Castle, Sylvana Cradoc-Evans, Janet Hans van Haalen, Sue Waterworth, Jennie Widdowson, Anthony Widdowson, Shirley Wilton. Below: Jennie Widdowson took this photo on her mobile phone Let's do it all again next year! while helping with the de-numbering and collapsing of seats. 2 Voices in the Forest 2012: the concert A R E P O R T B Y L I N D A M U L D O O N We arrived at 8.30am on Saturday, 24 November (the day of the concert), to "nish setting out the seats and erecting them. The arms of the seats were wet at this stage and self-adhesive labels don't stick to wet surfaces so we were issued with hundreds of paper wipes and we dried o! every arm. Then we received instructions on the seating plan and how to attach the labels and we worked in teams of three, doing a block of seats at a time. There was some entertainment by this stage. The sound guys "ne-tuned the sound systems and then the choirs began rehearsals. The predictable maggies came to inspect as they do with every Arboretum activity. Above: The sound guys !ne-tuning the sound systems. Below: The public began to take their their seats. Top left: Volunteers worked in teams of three to number each section of seats. Left: It's a rare event that escapes the scrutiny of the maggies. 3 Some of us went home to get changed for our afternoon duties but we were back at 12.30pm for a brie"ng. The public began arriving at 2.00pm, in a trickle at "rst, but as 4.00pm approached the cars kept coming and the queues got longer. The choirs began assembling in the area beyond the people sitting on the ground, at the far end of the amphitheatre arc, and soon the concert was underway. Bob Winnel from The Village Building Company (the concert's major sponsor) introduced 666 ABC's Alex Sloane who once again did a sterling job as MC. The Combined Youth Choir was made up of students from Aranda Primary School, Canberra Girls Grammar School and Woden Valley Youth Choir. Two other choirs performed during the concert, namely the Oriana Chorale and the ANU School of Music Chamber Choir. Above: The Combined Youth Choir performing on stage. Below: Soloists from the Combined Youth Choir singing Below: The choirs began assembling prior to going on stage 'America' from West Side Story. Right: One of two 'hot' vocalists with the Royal Military College Big Band. 4 Above: Children were delighted with the 'Jump' song. Above right: Those sitting on the grass got up and danced. Next it was the turn of the Royal Military College Big Band and this band is big! Five trumpeters, four trombonists, "ve saxophonists, two percussionists, one guitarist, one bass guitarist, one keyboard player and two vocalists; a veritable army of musicians! The RMC Big Band did one vocal number called 'Jump' and all the children in the audience did just that whenever the word jump was sung, even from a sitting position. Others were dancing on the grass with their parents. This really did feel as though the whole community was out enjoying themselves! The band performed 13 compositions in all, taking us up to the "rst interval. Amelia Farrugia took to the stage in Act 2. This was the scene at the beginning of Act 2. An estimated 4400 people attended the concert. 5 The orchestra was looking happy at the beginning of Act 2. Act 2 began with an address by Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, and the operatic part of the program followed. This began with the distinguished Australian soprano, Amelia Farrugia, and then came Stuart Skelton, a world- renowned Australian tenor that now rarely performs in Australia. Between the two of them they delivered a total of 12 songs and arias in Act 2. Another interval followed and Act 3 began with the Korean megastar, Sumi Jo, and the petite soprano didn't Stuart Skelton, tenor Sumi Jo, soprano 6 disappoint, giving seven solo performances and singing four duets with Stuart Skelton.
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