Robert Beaser (*1954) composed the Mountain Songs in 1985.
Quicksilver originated as song to a poem by the American poet Daniel Marc Epstein. The refrain reads:

Life is easy now and then
Life is a song I'll love till the end
Loving the tune I'll sing it again ...

The guitar begins with joyous, lighthearted motion in a lilting triple meter. The tune enters in the flute, a plain, pure melody with a hymnic ascent that seems to invite the listener to sing along.[...]

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