Chanel Cole at the Voices in the Forest launch at the Margaret Whitlam Pavilion at the National Arboretum. Photo: Katherine Griffiths The wind sighed, moaned and sometimes even shrilled around the Margaret Whitlam Pavilion during Friday's launch at the Arboretum of November's Voices in the Forest. The austere and very Scandinavian-looking pavilion (hey, let's all fib to gullible tourists that it was designed by Jorn Utzon, of Sydney Opera House fame) is very exposed. When soprano Emma Matthews gave us her melancholy trilling of The Last Rose of Summer (the sob-jerking song is about the inevitability of decay and death in roses and humans alike) the mourning of the wind added to the...
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