Frank Corcoran

Dear Accusative / Nominative ” ME”,
1. Are you ?
2. Are you YOU ?
3. Are you ME ?
4. How can I ever be – come you ( – or, of course, “You”, eh ? )
5. which of us loves which ? whom ?
6. Will you prove revengefull – also to my childer ?
7. [...]

FOUR HAIKUS 2010
1. “E-mail me ” I whinged.
Not one duck in this white plain.
Sad eye is sad world.
2. He´s going blind too,
The phone was dead this Christmas
[...]

The poet´s world cold,
Whitens , shivers and glitters.
Thought and word frozen.
( Próinsias Bán ´O Basho ; Nollaig 2009 )

Nova
Bernard Clarke Sunday, July 18th. RTE / Lyric FM Radio
9-11pm
Presented by Bernard Clarke. Nova is about new composers, new trends and new audiences. All new music here and now, chronicling what’s radical and what’s conservative, who’s established and who’s in the avant garde. A blend of contemporary classical, electronic, experimental [...]

Ciccadas today going for the late afternoon, I hear. The Irish love not their contemporary Irish music ; all a matter of marketing, you´d think so. Heavens ! Give us a bit of a tune! Sure I saw it at the 2005 Zagreb World Music Days, myself a mighty juror, Stanko Horvat now dead nearly [...]

Also in this 2005 – 2010 period, I composed : (moving backwards now in my already flowed time )
9 ASPECTS OF AN IRISH POEM for Solo Violin and Large Choir ( North German Radio
Choir, Conductor : Philip Ahmann )
QUASI UN BASSO for Piano and Bass ( [...]

Yerra, I do´nt feel the need nor do I see how it can be done, twitter or blog around the bush or anything else either. Hard enough slog to hear the great inner sounding images, write down the musical knots with bloody nib and craftily catch clots and bolts and lightening flashes and, well, my [...]

Might forget. I will type it up backwards::
2010 Violin Concerto
2010 Rhapsodic Bowing for 8 Celli ( Premiere 2010 )
2010 Five Lieder for Tenor and Piano ( Texts by Frank Corcoran )
2009 Eight Haikus for SS AA TT BB Choir
Texts by Frank Corcoran )
Songs [...]

No, the question of word / music won´t go away. Or , more specifically, what text(s) should a composer set. Why ?
A young composer writes Lieder; the text leads, supports, offers form and shape and melodic thrust. Or she goes for choral settings. Ditto.
My ” MEDIEVAL IRISH LYRICS” for the then R.T.E.Singers was a success. [...]

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. [...]