Frank Corcoran

1. Great gusts of air-stream
Roughly unravel my sleeve
A last butterfly
2. My young love, Buddha,
Came to softly sleeping me
And our sap rising
3. Issa and Buddha
Were lovers; – Lawd how they [...]

On February 22 2009 the North German Radio Choir under its new Chief Conductor, Philip Ahmann, will give the German premiere of Frank Corcoran´s
QUASI 9 ASPECTS OF AN IRISH POEM ( Gabriel Rosenstock ) for Solo Violin and Large Choir.
Nine times I set this little 3 -liner poem in Irish ( [...]

How , Lawny, will I handle the “I” of this once summerly Musing ? I am afraid the play´s the thing, the confessional stool, the stool straining . To play, to weep, yes, but a tad too personal, too weepy?
Suppose that I, sorry, just suppose that ” I ” attack that World Haiku [...]

PIANO TRIO . It was thirty years ago, my break-through year. I wrote that opening page for piano solo with bleeding fingers; it had to re-invent rhythm, to fight against 0ur Western tyranny of the period. I succeeded. Then comes the cello with its own tempo , gestures and persona. The violin is [...]

N.D.R. Kultur broadcasts my Radiophonic Analysis of Beethoven´s Seventh Symphony.
” ” my Irische Mikrokosmoi for String Orchestra.
” [...]

After I was killed in Iraq last year, I dreamed that I heard that drake quacking once again at the castle-moat.
Thus:
” What a social surd it´s been, quaak, my last quarter of a century earning a duck-family´s crud. How finely unartistic [...]