Half a Year Together

FOR MEDIUM OR HIGH VOICE AND PIANO

Text by Richard Howard

Dedicated to Judith Bettina

Premiere: February 24, 1987; Merkin Concert Hall, New York; Group for Contemporary Music

Duration: 5’

Half a Year Together

Richard Howard

Music is one means of telling time

That forces memory

To conjugate the tenses of the mind.

In terms of moving sound:

When I hear music, all I was I am.

Love, I think, has something of the same

Effect, the other way

Around, permitting what has not yet been

To come into its own;

With you my love, what I will be I am.