Posted in General on January 22nd, 2008 Comments Off
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 [...]
Posted in General on January 21st, 2008 Comments Off
January 21. 23.15 Lyric Fm broadcast : IRISH MIKROKOSMOI for String Orchestra ( 1996 ) . These are six short ” Scenes From My Receding Past”.
Posted in General, My Music on January 8th, 2008 Comments Off
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 [...]
Posted in General on January 8th, 2008 Comments Off
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 [...]