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Martha Hill Duncan
Martha Hill Duncan was a member of the first graduating class of the Houston High School for Performing and Visual Arts and earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from the University of Texas at Austin. She furthered her musical studies in Ithaca, NY with pianist Trudy Borden and in Toronto with composer Dr....
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She Marries a Violinist
“My violinist is a darkened boat, and I am what I have become, a duet polishing the hard lake of departure.”
SSAA a cappella
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Her mother boils the telephone in tears;
her father floats silently over the pages
of his novel. They regret her piano lessons.
He doesn’t have a steady job; his violin
reclines in its velvet mooring while she packs
and unpacks the huge dusk of concert halls.
Her parents drive love like a heavy car;
she plays the back seat game and says
what is almost on the tip of her tongue:
“I love you both” means “My violinist is
a darkened boat, and I am what I have become,
a duet polishing the hard lake of departure.”
– David Swanger
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