Frank Corcoran

Dec. 12 2007 New York University / Ireland House
FRANK CORCORAN – IRISH COMPOSER Portrait
Dec. 13 [...]

January 13 . 2008
100 Years Ago – The Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin Was Opened ! We mark this with :
Gallery At Noon Concert . 12.00 The Callino Quartet premieres :
Frank Corcoran´s THIRD STRING-QUARTET ( 2006. 14´. )

Nov. 21 . Dundalk Institute of Technology / EAR Electronic Festival :
14.00 Frank Corcoran ” SWEENEY´S VISION ” ( 1999 Bourges Festival Premier
Prix. [...]

It´s been sent, I expect, to soften me up, yet , strangely, to keep me on the alert. Obvious.
( Ours , too, has been shite ! – Ye must have sent us over those millions of cubic litres of water …. and after the heat-wave of April and May. Bit better today. ) [...]

10. November Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln : Porträt Frank Corcoran .
Interview with the Irish composer-in-exile, Frank Corcoran, plus “SWEENEY´S VISION” ( WDR commission 1997. Bourges Festival premier Prix [...]

Fusion ( yes, I did miss this )…. ” Cross-over”…. Oh Dear ! CRASH
A lot of this musical stuff is not non-trivial ( – Yes, you got me right : it is trivial ). A lot of what Whang On A Can or Ensemble Smersch or The Kitchen Smoke, what the boyos [...]

Certainly, I´ll write it out in a verse:
20. 09. 2007. The Bayerische Rundfunk broadcast my ” QUASI UN CONCERTO ” with big
orchestral guns, the filthy lot. Good.
1.10.2007. Our own [...]

It bisected nicely. First half down in hot ( yet strangely shaded ) Pratoleva, in my Paradise Gardens. After the quick week-end up at Schloss Hofgaismar, – the flight-connection Rome – Hannover nifty enough -the second half of my Italian summer quasi Rilkish – Keatsian with fruits mellowing parallel to the grapes [...]

Have you heard Frank Corcoran at the University ?
We heard only tales of his adversity….
Tell us elsewhere what you heard,
We heard only the shadow under his beard.
And tell us also what sign,
What sign did he bear?
We saw the stain of red wine
In the snow of his hair. [...]