Frank Corcoran

The Fidelio Trio’s playing was deftly coloured and responsive down to the lightest shadows of vapour

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1st July The Warehouse, London
Irish Piano Trios

Frank Corcoran Piano Trio (LP)
Benedict Schlepper-Connolly New Work (WP)
Gerald Barry Triorchic Blues (Trio version) (WP)
Frank Lyons Birdland (WP)
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Donnerstag, 8. November 2007
radiotipps für den 8.11./9.11./10.11./11.11. und den 12.11.

WDR3 23.05 – 00.00Uhr WDR 3 open: Studio Akustische Kunst
“Quasi una Missa ” von Frank Corcoran
“Sweeney’s Vision” von Frank Corcoran
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KUNSTMUSIK #4 – Frühjahr 2005

CLARENZ BARLOW
JENS BRAND
FRANK CORCORAN ( must look this up … )
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH
MAURICIO KAGEL
PÈTER KÖSZEGHY
KUNSU SHIM
CHRISTIAN UTZ

Huge sorrowful eyes

Misted over as horses

Discuss damp sorrow

I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER :

Remember, surfer, thou art but dust. It is the blight.
Wherefore, then, this mess about ashes in urns ? Or is it the sport angle? ( – the morning wilfullness , white bliss, electronic page delicious, calling out to me now : ” Ora et labora!” )
Is that it ? That all ? Sure now ?
It must have been nineteen fifty four, the early June morning already hot, suppressed excitement in the men all ready for go, harnessed horses frisky. The still still hay-knife in its oiled mowing-machine sheath ready for bloody murder, three cleanly cut off legs of a rabbit and an erring corncrake, its unfortunate nesting-instinct.
Far in the future lay her scream ( still dormant in June, that suppressed, silent energy, is how you saw it ). Far in my future lay this thrust to write this out now: how the eyes were filmed over, watching her interior soap-opera starring the greats of culture, a politician, an urn.
Well, that June fused the whole thing, the breadknife, blood culture at its cunning work, silence after Her Big Scream, white silken legs and the locked up meat-carver.
A child´s June bliss, hay smell now in these pixels. ( If you believe that, you´ll believe anything ) . Silence not always the best policy, no little sir. Maybe the muzzle. Wash her strait-jacket; hang out in this marvellous drying day, as they oil the mowing-machine before the huge horses´ nostrils begin dripping green streams of snot.
Get a grip on! You’re a man and not a June whinger! Stop your own inner scream right here or you´ll get a good slap ! Mind that urn.

1971 Feis Ceoil Prize

1973 Varming Prize For Irish Composers

1974 Dublin Symphony Orchestra Prize

1980 Berliner Kuenstler Programm

1981 Founding member Aosdana / Irish Academy of the Arts

1989 Fulbright Professorship

1999 Bourges Festival Premier Prix ( for WDR 1997 commissioned SWEENEYS VISION )

2002 Swedish E.M.S. Prize ( for WDR 1999 commissioned QUASI UNA MISSA )

2013 Cork International Choral Festival Sean O’Riada Prize

2013 International Federation for Choral Music First Prize ( for 8 HAIKUS / Manila University Choir )

Yes, here’s some of my choral music written over more than 40 years. Some:

1971 DAN AIMHIRGIN ( comm. Goethe Institut . Publ. An Gum )

1973 MEDIEVAL IRISH EPIGRAMMES ( RTE Singers rec. 1975 International Rostrum )

1975 HERR JESU CHRIST ( ” 1977 ” )

2005 9 ASPECTS OF AN IRISH POEM for Solo Violin and Choir ( Irish Chamber Choir / C. Antunes )

2008 ” ( NDR Chor / Philip Ahmann )

2013 8 HAIKUS won the International Forum For Choral Music Premier Prix ( Manila Univ. Choir ) Publ. Schott

Very significant news about the shin bone. You will try to get several opinions on the way forward, I suppose. The foot must have been paining badly if it persuaded you to get such a thorough check-up. Obviously, at all costs, you must work to ensure your future mobility is not impaired. Did anyone mention calcium/magnesium supplements? A doc over here urged me to do this too, to push back the threat of brittle bone and weak ligaments as we enter the next third of our lives. Vitamin D works well with cal/mag to ensure it is absorbed correctly by the body.

How did the older generation survive without the wonderful resource of Google as information finder? And Wikipedia. The Mayo Clinic website is very good too on medical conditions and solutions.

VIMEO 3.2.2015

Martin Johnson on Frank Corcoran’s CELLO CONCERTO

North/South Consonance
Midwinter Fest
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On Sunday afternoon February 15, the North/South Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Max Lifchitz will introduce New York audiences to five recent works by composers from Ireland and the US.

When & where
Sunday February 15, 2015 @ 3pm
Christ & St Stephen’s Church, 120 West 69th Street (between Broadway and Columbus)
New York

Details
Admission is free – no tickets required

Program
Frank Corcoran Quasi una storia (Nearly a Story)
Max Lifchitz Brightness Aloft