Phillips comments about this work in Works and Texts 1992, " Although at its first performance in the Cheltenham Festival (1969) dedicated to Stuart Dempster, it was described by the critic of the Daily Telegraph as providing him with 'the most boring fifteen minutes of my life' (little did he know what the eighties would bring his way). I find it as tense to play in as it hopes to be soothing to hear. The first performance was sung by John Tilbury, Moray Walsh and Tom Phillips on BBC3 Music in Our Time in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.