Frank Corcoran

QUASI UNA FUGA Frank Corcoran ” Quasi Una Fuga” is in no way neo-baroque ( – this I consider to be a pretty unfortunate stylistic aberration of certain 20 th. c. composers ; eg. Stravinsky´s back-to-Bach works are not his best. Bach did it better…. ) . Yet it does have something, in fact everything, [...]

July 13. 2007. St. Mary´s Cathedral, Limerick, Ireland : Premiere of ” QUASI UNA FUGA” ( 2006 ) for String Orchestra by Irish Chamber Orchestra, directed by Anthony Marwood.

The seed twitches. It has to. Sixty years on in the script, that particular plot thickened into my spaceship´s curdled Bortsch soup while our captain and lovely she sang their myxolydian,” high – art – how -are -you?” Shy, still dreadfully young, of course, theologian Johannes Kepler had arrived in ” My Mamma´s-A- Witch” interspace [...]

THE DRIVE TO COMPOSE DRIVEL DIES LAST This next shot slows down the perception of Time = MÉ FÉIN .It will ( – aha! now sneaks in tense ? ) brake my féin-tempore , mo fhéin-am, the fine self as 1500 x 997 pixels . I was nine and not well. In our pre-Famine school-lavatory, [...]