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Programme Note
'Sing About It' is a cry to take ownership for the change we wish to see in the world to take responsibility for our actions. Myriad uses choral music to advocate for the change that is meaningful to us, and will continue to learn and unlearn to create a future we wish to live in.

Lyrics
It’s so sad. We don’t understand each other yet.
How can this be when we’ve been living together so long?
So close to each other’s beauty?
It’s so sad. It makes me feel so bad.
I can’t stand by anymore.
Gonna sing about it

Gonna sing it when I feel like cryin’.
When I’m uncomfortable & don’t know why yet.
When I am guilty of the laissezfaire
– my ignorance of you laid bare
I’ll talk to you before I raise my hand,
so you can call on me to make a stand.

Am I responsible? Are you responsible?
What are we responsible for?

I’m gonna look up from my own concerns
reach across the chasm of what I’ve never learned.
So wide, so full of burning–your eyes are turning to me now,
saying ‘It’s timeit’s way past timeto step outside the echo
echo echo echo… chamber.’
Stop pretending it’s alright,
stop pretending this is not our fight.
Am I responsible? Are you responsible?
What are we responsible for?

Gonna sing about it.

Moira Smiley, 2015

Music and lyrics by Moira Smiley
Soloists (in order of appearance)
Marie Vaduva, Belle Cao (not pictured), Alma Sarai

Project Partner
Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts Blackbox Theatre

Audio assembled by Justin Koop
Filmed and edited by Mike Enns of Made by Frame
Recorded at BTown Sound

Elise Naccarato, Artistic Director
Alyssa Wu, Collaborative Pianist