Frank Corcoran

JULY HOT SERMON – HOT, COOL STUFF You do not know whence or whither? Nor I. Nor why. We have still got, if limited, time to: ” Live, love, / Tell the bastards they´re wrong ! / And the best time is to tell them / When you´re young ! ” Sob not my song, [...]

Lyric Fm recorded my Piano Trio with the Spanish Arbos Trio at the 2007 Sligo Festival in April 2007. Lyric Fm will record the Irish Chamber Orchestra world-premiere of my ” Quasi Una Fuga” at St. Mary´s Cathedral Limerick at the Shannon Festival 2007 this July 13. See note on world-premiere at Irish Music Centre [...]

Dear Dad, Would you now trot down to me, outta your Heaven and into my splendid Garden, Dad . Praise it and de viper here, you are “a man and not a whinger” , Dad ; laud its lithe, green-and-yellow neck up for divilment , Dad. If that tongue strikes, no more the bittern will [...]

The leading Swiss New Music group , Ensemble Antipodes of Basle, has commissioned a new Corcoran Octet, ” Quasi Una Sarabande” . Premiere November 30 2008 in Basle. KUNSTMUSIK Köln ( Spring 2005 Issue www.kunstmusik.org ) has Frank Corcoran´s ” It´s A Cold Wind Blows On An Irish Composer”.