Posted in My Music on March 15th, 2007 No Comments »
These are among my bigger canvases for varying sizes of orchestra. They straddle more than thirty years of inner struggle with this composer´s ear and ounds .
The THREE ORCHESTRAL PIECES are for middle-size orchestra ( I do insist on the sub-title: ” Pictures From MY Exhibition” ) . They are my three [...]
Posted in News on March 14th, 2007 1 Comment »
Bourges Electronic Music Centre has deposited all of Frank Corcoran´s electro-acoustic works in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. These include:
” Balthazar´s Dream” Berlin 1980.
” Joycepeak Musik” Studio Acoustic Music prize 1996
” Sweeney´s Vision ” WDR commission; premier prix , Bourges 1999
” Quasi Una Missa” WDR [...]
Posted in My Music, Podcast on March 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
It was an intolerably humid summer-night at Lake Michigan , 1990 in Milwaukee. My drained year as a Fulbright Guest-Professor in the U.S.A. was ending ; two shadows lay over the family, my wife´s insanity and the violent death of my oldest son, Rory, shortly before. The University of Wisconsin Library purchased [...]
Posted in News on March 1st, 2007 No Comments »
April 13. Sligo festival . Arbos Trio ( Spain ) performs Frank Corcoran´s PIANO TRIO
July 13. I.C.O. Shannon Summer Festival. St. Mary´s Cathedral , Limerick, Ireland.
Irish Chamber Orchestra ( Directed by Anthony Marwood ) : [...]
