Archive for December, 2009

AM I STILL ALIVE, LITTLE FLAME ?

” He is going blind The phone was dead this Christmas…. Bach´s organ very still ” kind of thing to be writing with trembly ink and the moat-water ducks rescuing their webbed winter -feet from sneaky death by frozen flip-flops. Any the wiser, any the sicker, the more pained, fascinated, ecstatic than a very full [...]

HAPPY YEAR ANEW

January 19. 2010. National Concert Hall. 13.00 “Horizons” Concert with the National Symphony Orchestra , Naomi O´Connell soprano, Conductor : Colman Pearce. Featured composer : Frank Corcoran Frank Corcoran: FOUR PRAYERS for Mezzosoprano and Orchestra . ( World-premiere ) In these four orchestral lieder, the orchestra accompanies the singer; it “sets” and sings and carries [...]

2009 Is Trying To Close. 2010 Sidles Up Leery

I do look forward to my January 19 2010 “Horizons” Dublin Concert with the National Symphony Orchestra and two premieres; but also to the RTE Clarinet Quintet premiere with the Vanbrugh String Quartet; also to the National Chamber Choir´s premiering my own ” 8 Haikus ” text. Then there´s the New York premiere of new [...]