Prime Minister’s Question becomes an oratorio
mainThe former Australian PM Julia Gillard will go down in history for two reasons – as a combative politician who led her party into the wilderness and as an orator who delivered the finest anti-sexism rant ever heard in a democratic parliament. Her speech has now been set to music by Rob Davidson and performed by The Australian Voices, director Gordon Hamilton.
Can’t wait for the Cameron ‘We’re all in this together’ Quartet ….!
This has rather stolen my thunder, as I’m currently putting the finishing touches to my “Hard-Working Families Fantasia”.
She’ll go down in history as a carbon tax liar.
Except that she wasn’t. And thank goodness we still have the much-needed carbon tax.
Brilliant. Of course, Churchill had an entire band named after one of his speeches.
For my similar take on Churchill speeches, see here:
https://soundcloud.com/user6370877/churchill-finest-hour
And their horn section was nearly as good as his.
So little happens in Australia, so that when it does, it should be set to music.
Elena Kats-Chernin’s Symphonia Eluvium about floods, and Brett Dean’s Fire Music about bush fires
spring to mind.
Scarpia sings that at the end of Tosca: Act 1.
Send a copy to Abbott, I say!
I REALLY hope this piece of music is parody?
This woman is quite the hypocrite. Rises up in anger against misogyny and sexism, yet allows her homophobic biblical beliefs to direct her political actions?
Gillard is the last person in the civilized world who should be honoured with a cantata (or whatever the piece is supposed to be) based on her words.
It’s well known that she wasn’t religious, and was criticized for living in sin… if all you’re saying is that she was against gay marriage, well she was hardly alone there, and it was because she “didn’t think the legitimacy of a union rests on the ability to put a ring on it”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-02/kean-julia-gillard-and-same-sex-marriage/4993640
Actually Olaugh Turchev, she’ll go down in history as being the Prime Minister who gave us the NDIS, who put health before profits and stared down the tobacco industry, who implemented much needed reforms in Education & who forced the industries who are polluting Australia to clean up their act by placing a price on carbon…a successful and effective strategy that has been implemented in many other industrialised nations. How sad that all you can see is LiEberal party untruths.
Thanks for mentioning us Norman. It has been a real pleasure working on this piece, and it’s the first in a series of Prime Minister speeches set to music in this manner – will include Menzies, Gough Whitlam’s “Well may we say”, Keating’s Redfern Speech. The apology to the Stolen Generations by Kevin Rudd has also been approached by TAV in my composition “We apologise”.
Brilliant.
I don’t care what happens as long as she is not performing it. Whatever her virtues or vices, the woman has a voice that could clear a city block.
I agree with Luke: regardless of how she came to power, she was the subject of the most vile orchestrated campaign against any individual I have ever seen. And unfortunately in the State Capital where I live there is only one newspaper owned by a very prominent man we all know and the public – and apparently you -were fed opinion and propaganda rather than fact. It was shameful
“the most vile orchestrated campaign against any individual I have ever seen”
Wait until the US elects the second President Clinton. I suspect that we’ll surpass Australia.
Maybe you haven’t seen van Gaal… great ear that of the pianist. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-i0l0EKeqc&list=RD3-i0l0EKeqc#t=2
This one’s great! There’s quite a collection of us making music from the melody of speech, ever since somebody decided to play the talking drum in West Africa. Thanks Janacek, Hermeto Pascoal, Scott Johnson, Steve Reich, Sherre Delys and many others.