1977
Music I Heard With You
Composed by
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein Text by
Conrad Aiken
Conrad Aiken Songfest Song Collection
"Music I Heard With You" is the ninth movement and fourth solo song of Bernstein's cycle Songfest. The song is for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, but a piano reduction is also published.
Text
Music I Heard With You
by Conrad Aiken
Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;
Now that I am without you, all is desolate;
All that was once so beautiful is dead.
Your hands once touched this table and this silver,
And I have seen your fingers hold this glass.
These things do not remember you, beloved,
And yet your touch upon them will not pass.
For it was in my heart that you moved among them,
And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes;
And in my heart they will remember always,
—They knew you once, O beautiful and wise.
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Sheet Music
Songfest
Leonard Bernstein
1. The Pennycandystore Beyond The El
2. A Julia de Burgos
3. To What You Said
4. Music I Heard With You
5. Zizi's Lament
6. Sonnet: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed...
2. A Julia de Burgos
3. To What You Said
4. Music I Heard With You
5. Zizi's Lament
6. Sonnet: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed...