In the late nineties I turned to ” internationale Radiokunst” . Th 1997 WDR commission ” SWEENEY´S VISION ” won the 1999 Bourges Festival premier Prix. That same year WDR commissioned ” QUASI UNA MISSA” which won the 2002 Swedish
MAY MURDEROUS BEFORE SAHARA JUNE
My lawn-mower loves me. The spirit runneth free today as the motor belches, leaving my summery Geist blithe and free to contemplate – yes, ambulando – the same questions all over again … eg. Successful ( Musical Form ) versus
FROM IRISH POET GABRIEL ROSENSTOCK
Outstanding Irish composer Frank Corcoran talking to my son, Tristan. Among other things, he mentions pigs as an influence …pigs had the whole scale, from the highest picolo to the lowest tuba!
THE MAY 1 SINGES ME . AND YET I SING
A new work . In petto and on the drawing-board ( okay, smeared by wine-glass bottoms, by smudges of ink-slashed rejected solutions, my royal white Typex, this present Spring sweat ) . The 13 strings of my chamber orchestra spawn
MY RUINED SEVENTIES – ” CAD A DHÉANFAIMID FEASTA … “?
I almost weep this almost May evening here in “Duck-Egg-Purple ” Tramonto Lazio for “my” great poet, a ” WORDSMITH” , for great Patrick Creagh, I weep for his ” LAMENTO FOR THE BORDERGUARD”. For that great man. Walk tall
SOON WE´LL DAUNCE IN THE MAY
April did bring in high temperatures. Today cool, turbulent, indecisive clouds, duck egg purple on the Umbran mountains just across. This week will bring back the sun , then steady May heat, the lake waters lapping it up. Balm of
” Bantock ” NON ” Bartók “
Tom Service of the “Guardian” ´s New Music is no mean daw; His Guardian contributions on New Music are close to heroic. Why ? In a desert of the media he risks. He comments and sketches and , lastly, leads
NOW LOOK HERE ! HEAR HERE !
Them mid-seventies for me weren´t, ahem, the easiest years of my sweet youth ( – but which , were, then, eh ? ) . Yes,I´d done good, I had dug a solid composer´s work with the choral MEDIEVAL IRISH EPIGRAMMES,
FRÜHLING, JA DU BIST ES ! ! !
World-class these Croatian string-players at the Muzicki Biennale Zagreb. The Zagreb Piano Trio and the Zagreb String Quartet, melting tones and incandescent chording, high electric energy, ecstatic bowing. ( – rhapsodic is certainly here no over-used word… ) Musical delight
MUZICKI BIENNALE ZAGREB 2013. 9. APRIL.
17:00 – Tuesday HGZ Inside EU Zagreb Trio Vidmantas Bartulis (LT): Express No. 3, or Glinka and Nemirovich-Danchenko on a Train Trip from St.Petersburg to Moscow Frank Corcoran (IE): Piano Trio Wolfgang Rihm (DE): Fremde Szene III / Strange Scene