Frank Corcoran

I had lost much time ( – had I? ). This is less a Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Ass, more a lingering at and near a few sound epiphanies. Sound man. THREE ORCHESTRAL PIECES of them early seventies were just that – my high horns, trumpets cutting the thin air of what [...]

1. ( Shades Of Basho ) Around Greenland booms A white spume of cold breakers, White noise, cool music. 2. For the womb the seed Sighs. – For light the eternal Dark polar day. 3. Once these were strong pines. Came The Great Wind that morning. Now they are no more. 4. This bright New [...]

1961 the goose was ready for the roasting – an t- ´Ard ( ! ) Teistiméireacht. Rote-learning and a centralistic system ( ten short years later, I would begin serving the Irish Civil Service´s dopy, dullard Dept. of Education, – a Cigire come to his castration ) had given me no kind of hoult on [...]

Is this which follows, then, improvised music ? Is it perhaps composed music ? TITLE : “Among My Souvenirs ” : MY MUSIC: obviously a 3/4 bar, violin plus Viennese piano: – “Admit to the Book Stacks” Harvard College, March 1992. – “Certificate Of Attendance” – Fellow at Session 167 of the Salzburg Seminar in [...]

Do I believe in “Creatio ex Nihilo” ? Do I what ? The composer spins, certainly she spins, new yarn, old yarns, out of what? – Yes, out of her earlier works, or a ” new path” , or ” tones versus anti-tones ” , out of a just-now-perhaps-picked-up paramusical “idea” ( eg. ” Let´s [...]

VISKI BOJ THE BATTLE OF VIS 2006 21. July Zagrebacki Kvartet ( Zagreb String Quartet ) Mozart, Frank Corcoran, Beethoven

ENSEMBLE 4 / 11. Page 40. Komponisten : Frank Corcoran And : JOURNAL OF NEW MUSIC RESEARCH Vol 12, Issue 1 – 2, 1983 ( Pages 351 – 355 ) “Irland und die neue irische Musik heute”.

Sea-snakes don´t really. Eat muscle tissue. “The dead will keep going on and on.” “She burned her coal without heating herself or the poor children. ” “A comely bride is easily dressed”. “Did they make any scuffling noise? ” Actually it was more like butter being strained through the scrim of a mouseskin shroud.” Memory [...]

Whence swims up courage, dignity, hypothomotic longings? A constant cloud of self-manufactured and manufacturing value, the mythic meaning that exudes from submarine us in the deep water ? What sure surrender or recommended swoon towards which cosmic swindle , my glass only half full ? Every twenty minutes up we go for air, then dive, [...]

1981 ,I was – from West Berlin – back in Dublin, the Vienna call came through . Into “our” kitchen. Yes: Good: The O.R.F. had planed my 1. SYMPHONY ( ” SYMPHONIES” of 23 Wind Instruments ) “We” drove down then from Berlin to Mozart´s Vienna. ( I had heard of Salieri, his pomps ). [...]