Archive for March, 2010

NEARLY SPRING NOW I GCATHAIR HAMBURG

It´s easy for the nimble fingers to talk and type about ” The Composer´s ” shaky ICH!” Too raw, often Yet, self-advertising´s your only man if noone else is fulfilling their duty of dissemination – what you would wish a publisher would normally be up to…. Take PARIS June 7th – 12th. Radio Telefís ´Eireann [...]

IT IS ALWAYS A QUESTION OF BALANCE . WHAT ?

18 Feb. 2005 . RTÉ Living Music Festival . Ensemble Modern , conductor Sian Edwards , premiered the Frank Corcoran commissioned work, ” QUASI UNA VISIONE”. Fine. Here was a chamber orchestra with a difference , not a 19th. c. symphony orchestra at all, but a, well, differently balanced sound-group. eg. How balance its string [...]

I had been at the Zagreb Biennale in the late seventies. 1983 it saw my APORTRAITOFTHEARTISTASAYOUNGMANWHOWANTEDTO…. for Actor and Taped Music which over ten years later morphed into “JOYCEPEAK – MUSIK” for West Deutscher Rundfunk .( This won the 1996 Studio Akustische Kunst Prize of WDR. ) While in Zagreb, my Croatian friends commissioned for [...]

FEBRUARY COLD BROUGHT HOT SAP FLOWING

” RHAPSODIC BOWING” for 8 Celli Frank Corcoran ( 2010 )