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Opposing the Motion

from Tradition and Innovation by Alexandra Fol

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Opposing the Motion is a setting of former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s famous Misogyny Speech of October 9, 2012. Inspired by the speech, Fol contacted the Hon. Gillard’s office asking for permission to set her speech to music and received an almost immediate reply! Issues of marginalization, women in power, and women in traditionally male-dominated occupations are beginning to be explored more and more. Fol’s settings of the Hon. Gillard’s text highlight a female point of view of a typically female problem of handling power.

"Ahhh la tradition. Un mot qui évoque de bons souvenirs de dîners en famille, de biscuits de fête et de chansons familiers. Mais la tradition, c’est aussi le sexisme et la misogynie en politique. Les traditions néfastes doivent être légitimement abandonnées. Lorsque l’honorable Julia Gillard, première ministre d'Australie, en a eu assez, le monde l’a vue improviser le discours anti-misogynie désormais le plus célèbre de l’histoire. Avec sa gracieuse permission, j'y apporte ma musique pour populariser la notion d’ « assez, c’est assez ». Que cette tradition soit morte et enterrée, remplacée par un nouveau monde d'égalité des chances peu importe le sexe et le genre."

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from Tradition and Innovation, released September 6, 2022
Composed by Alexandra Fol
Claudine Ledoux: mezzo-soprano
Louis-Philippe Bonin: saxophone
Viviane Gosselin: cello
Conducted by Alexandra Fol
Text courtesy of the Hon. Julia Gillard

This recording was made possible thanks to the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Alexandra Fol Montreal, Québec

Alexandra Fol’s music has been played by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Paramirabò, El Perro Andaluz, and Orlando Contemporary Chamber Orchestra, among many others.

Her music annually accompanies the restored Thracian solstice ritual at the sanctuary in Cabyle, Bulgaria.

Fol lives and works in Montréal as a composer, organist, pianist and conductor. ... more

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