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JUNE, TOO, BEARS HAIKU-GOODIES

Dec. 8 2008 Meridian Festival, Bukarest : Basso Moderno premieres my new “Quasi Una Perla”. Thus:
A last alone the
Long day writhing into night
Moon-shine is my love
René Magritte was
Off on his French hobby-horse:
“I am NOT my pipe!”
Age-old Greek river,
Was unwashed Heraklitus
Ever smelled again?

TWENTY YEARS A-GROWING

In 1987 I pared the quill and wrote: ” Two Hardy Referentialists And The Debate On Expression In
Music”. ( International Review Of The Aesthetics And Sociology Of Music IRASM 18, 2, 237 - 245 )
In this bee-loud glade
My nine and fifty plum-trees
They and I blooming

ISSA TRANSLATED IN HOT JUNE

Ora è buio Jetzt ist es Zwielicht
Sulle isole pini Sie sind wie Faust und Fäustchen
Pugno e pugno […]

IN ROME THE RED-HOT SUN WAS RETREATING

May 18. R.A.I. Tre / Cultura: Frank Corcoran´s 3. String Quartet ( Caleno Quartet )

STOP PRESS ! STOP PRESSING ! STOP ! PRESS !

August 23 , a Saturday, at 11.30 a.m. , at the Futura Festival Paris, Frank Corcoran´s
“Quasi Una Missa” ( 1999 W.D.R. commission ; 2002 Swedish E.M.S. Prize )

MORE SUN NEWS IN MAY

May 7. Lyric Fm broadcasts my ” QUASI UNA FUGA” with the Irish Chamber Orchestra/ Anthony
Marwood.
May 10. for Johannes Brahms 175th. birthday , North German Radio commissions Frank Corcoran two
hours radiophonic analysis […]

MORE PRATOLEVA HAIKUS

My silver syringe
Sucks out dark blood for vipers
Poison for poison
In the high temple
Hunger for tea-cake, flowers,
Mountain marmalade
Up on one long leg
Long Mary sights her own beak
Water reflected
In its Milky Way
Glides and flexes and ripples
Our Solar System
Season of mellow
Yellow fruit; ripeness is all
Too tired to die
Their great flaps empty
The whirring wings are circling
Empty this goose gyre
Tawny-Beaujolais
Autumn´s […]

CALENDAR STILL PUMPING

April 19 2008 Hüllm Cultural Centre
David Stromberg plays” Ice-Etchings” for solo cello.
July 1 2008 The Warehouse, London
Fidelio Trio gives the first London performance of my seventies” Break-Through” Piano Trio (1978 )

GREEN GLORIOUS IS THE COLOUR OF THE E-SAP NOW RISING

March 17 2008 Dutch Radio ” Mad Sweeney´s Shadow” Frank Corcoran Portrait including:
QUASI UNA MIUSSA , PIANO TRIO , 5 ROSENSTOCKLIEDER , 3. WIND-QUINTET ,
[…]

March 30 2008

Klopstockkirche Hamburg .
David Stromberg, cello, plays Frank Corcoran´s ” ICE-ETCHINGS” for Solo Cello.

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