Archive for January, 2008

SWEET JANUARY BLUES AGAIN

I´d asked for a fine shower of left hand pizzicati . Delicately silvery. Difficult. We rehearsed the new string quartet near Rodin´s bronze haunch in the central hall of the Hugh Lane Gallery. How much bow-hair for the ” col legnos” ? I was glad to be back in rainy Dull Bin ( – I [...]

TENDER IS THE WET JANUARY NIGHT

January 21. 23.15 Lyric Fm broadcast : IRISH MIKROKOSMOI for String Orchestra ( 1996 ) . These are six short ” Scenes From My Receding Past”.

String Quartet No.3

THIRD STRING QUARTET Frank Corcoran After my ” MAD SWEENEY” generated works of the mid-nineteen nineties ( ” BUILE SUIBHNE / MAD SWEENEY” for Speaker and Chamber Orchestra , 1995, Text by Seamus Heaney ) , this is my ” Quasi Un Quartetto”, the last of the ” Quasi” series. In the sense that today [...]

THAT´LL BE THE DAY , DEAF CLINT EASTWOOD

DUBLIN CITY GALLERY THE HUGH LANE SUNDAYS @ NOON CONCERT SERIES ADMISSION FREE Sunday January 13th 2008 Callino Quartet Frank Corcoran String Quartet No. 3 (2007) première Gyorgy Kurtag Officium Breve In Memoriam Andreæ Szervánszky Op. 28 L. van Beethoven Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 74, “The Harp:” Pre-concert talk 11.30am: Frank Corcoran will speak [...]