Liner notes: Eric Salzman
Primary Artist(s): Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, and Arthur Weisberg, Conductor
Label: Nonesuch H-71219
Date of release: 1969
Recording: Marc Aubort
About: Quick Are the Mouths of Earth attempts to manifest the literal meanings of the words in the title (from Virginia Woolf). Quick was an arduous compositional project completed in Italy after experiencing an electrifying performance of Carter's Double Concerto conducted by Bruno Maderna, in Berlin. I had felt the necessity of responding, and did so in a notably impractical fashion. It was by chance that Arthur came upon the score in the offices of the Rockefeller Foundation and decided to premiere it at Lincoln Center.
