Frank Corcoran

This is what . I am not attempting to dinge time ( or Time ) with a belt of a rubber hammer. Yet it behoves that I list quietly and soberly details of works of mine and their performances or premieres in order: 1. to fix them here. 2. to fix them for at least [...]

1999 Bergamo commssion for ICE ETCHINGS ( 9 Winds ) 1993 4 CONCERTINI OF ICE Düsseldorf Sin -foniker / Mark Schlingensief 22003 W.D.R. ( Dr. Michael Trapp ) reviewed my Symphonies 2, 3 and 4 . Great ! 2008 October World Haiku review , vol. 6, Issue 4, brought my Prize Haiku. 2008 Futura Festival, [...]

I´ll continue with my List Of A Modest Composer´s Modest Successes; order in disorder, surely ? 2007 David Stromberg played ICE ETCHINGS for Solo Cello at the Unerhörte Musik Berlin . 1980 – 1981 Berliner Künstler Programm of the D.A.A.D. invited me to Berlin for a composing year. I did. 2009 King´s Place London , [...]

1999 WDR commissioned the electronic ” QUASI UNA MISSA” which won the 2002 Swedish EMS Prize. 2009 Czech Radio did a Frank Corcoran Portrait with all my electronig works. 1996 “JOYCEPEAK MUSIK ” won the Studio Akustische Musik Prize. 2002 Malmö Festival : “QUASI UNA MISSA ” and ” MAD SWEENEY ” 2008 Concorde / [...]

Also in my Composer´s List Of Goodies : 1977 “MEDIEVAL IRISH EPIGRAMMES ” for the RTE Singers / Hans W. Rosen went to the Paris International Rostrum Of Composers. ( Eric Sweeny later also did a memorable performance and recording of the work ! ) 2000 The N.S.O. / Richard Pittman did the revised version [...]

This is the beginning of my Special List of works and pomps ( no particular order of time or pleasure) that I treasure in my works accomplished. No mean list. I´ll be decade – hopping . Of course. To write it out in a verse: 1981 My SYMPHONY Nr. 1. ( “Symphonies of Symphonies Of [...]

I will . Very soon. Compose a Corcoran Special List. Works and dates and special hiccups in my , by now, lived life. For me to live is to write. Tones and toons. Watch this space . As closely as you have in the fickle past dared. ( You did ? WHO is ” You” [...]