CECILIE ORE
THE FIG LEAF CAMPAIGN!
A MADRIGAL COMEDY VOCAL ENSEMBLE OR CHOIR
© Copyright 2019 by Norsk Musikforlag AS, Oslo, Norway
Cecilie Ore: The Fig Leaf Campaign! from The Vatican Trilogy - Part III. for vocal ensemple or choir 2019
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PREFACE
Vocal ensemble or choir:
Soprano
Mezzo-soprano
Alto
Tenor
Baritone
Bass
All the solo parts indicated with ‘solo’ should be performed solo also when the piece is performed by a choir.
Duration: approx. 6 minutes
‘The Fig Leaf Campaign!’ was commissioned by Nordic Voices with support from Det Norske Komponistfond first performed at Bergen International Festival 2018
Music: Cecilie Ore
Text: Bibbi Moslet & Cecilie Ore
The Vatican Trilogy - Part III
The Fig Leaf Campaign!
(program note - English)
The Fig Leaf Campaign! – tells the story of the disappeared penises in the Vatican Museum. During the Renaissance period nudity was declared sinful and consequently all the antic sculptures in the museum had their sexual organs cut off and hidden by fig leaves. Patient as statues necessarily are, they are still awaiting the day when full masculinity or femininity will be restored to them. Will the Church adhere to their wishes?
Vatikan Trilogien - Del III
The Fig Leaf Campaign!
(program note - norsk)
The Pregnant Pope! Fikenblad Kampanjen! - er historien om penisene som forsvant i Vatikanmuseet. Under Renessansen ble nakenhet erklært syndig. Derfor måtte alle synlige kjønnsorganer på antikke skulpturer i museet hugges av og alle spor av kjønn skjules med fikenblader. Denne lemlestelsen og kunstvandalismen foregikk i nesten 500 år. Statuene står fremdeles den dag i dag uten kjønnsorgan og tildekket med fikenblad. De venter tålmodig på sin fordums naturlige prakt av mannlighet og kvinnelighet.
Når vil Vatikanet lytte til deres ønsker?
Cecilie Ore and Bibbi Moslet
THE TEXT:
The Fig Leaf Campaign!
There is a secret room with a secret chest with a secret drawer in the Vatican Museum.
Do you want to hear what’s hidden inside? …you won’t believe it!
There are hundreds of penises hidden in a drawer in a chest in a room in the Vatican Museum!
And how, do you ask, how did the phalluses end up there?
The Vatican chopped them off! All the beautiful sculptures had their penises chopped off! - And they covered all remaining genitalia with fig leaves… both men and women alike.
But…, but why this dramatic destruction of art?
Popes in the Renaissance declared: Nudity is unholy and sinful, leading to perversion and diabolic acts!
Good heavens! Sinful and unholy? Oh dear, oh dear! Diabolic and perverted? When will this comedy end?
The vandalized and mutilated Adams and Eves are still on display until the Vatican decides to make them all naked and natural again.
There is a secret room with a secret chest with a secret drawer in the Vatican Museum.
The
Campaign!