FULL MYOSOTIS (Nora Farley) Ann Arbor MI 2026 Marisa Redding, Nora Farley, Mikeila McQueston, Sophie Choate

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Myosotis  
• Composer: Farley Nora   
• Libretto: Nora Farley  
• Venue & Opera Company: West Side United Methodist Church, Ann Arbor Michigan  
• Recorded: April 4, 2026
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Marisa Redding, Nora Farley, Mikeila McQueston, Sophie Choate, Celina Kintscher, Hayla Alawi, Sarah Paquet, Jillian Burgam
• Conductor: Jacob Carroll  
• Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Nora Farley, West Side United Methodist Church Ann Arbor  
• Date Published: 2026  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, othersubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Composer’s Notes:

  “Myosotis” is the Latin name of the forget-me-not plant. In this day and age, in our culture, it is gauche to admit that you need other people. We know on an intellectual level that human beings are helpless when we are alone, that we evolved to rely on each other. When it comes down to it, however, we are uncomfortable with that reality. When we start to feel like someone needs us too much, we pull away. We “forget” each other.
  I have been struggling with being “forgotten” for my whole life, and Myosotis is the story of the loneliness and anger of that struggle, and of the subsequent realization that when we choose instead to “remember” each other, we create each other. What I know of you becomes part of who you are. If you believe I can be good, can be loved, you make it true. Alone we are not only nothing, we are nobody. We need each other, and we should not be ashamed of that need. We become ourselves only through knowing others, and if we are lucky, loving them well and truly and being loved in return, cocreating ourselves in unity with one another and with the Good Green Earth.

  Movements:
  0:00:00 1. Drought
  0:05:56 2. I am hollow
  0:14:12 3. My youth and my beauty
  0:23:29 4. Myosotis
  0:33:30 5. Mismatch
  0:38:17 6. The axe
  0:42:12 7. I burn
  0:49:22 8. Thin ice
  0:53:02 9. Give and give and give
  0:58:25 10. Groundwater rising
  1:03:12 11. The long way around
  1:08:35 12: Maybe I am you

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