March 30 2008
Posted in General on March 4th, 2008 Comments Off
Klopstockkirche Hamburg .
David Stromberg, cello, plays Frank Corcoran´s ” ICE-ETCHINGS” for Solo Cello.
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FEBRUARY IS IRON
Posted in General on February 21st, 2008 Comments Off
This is ferrous thundering outrageous . I was not asked.To accept our recalcitrant gene C 282 Y which had mutated mutely enough in a West of Ireland bog, in let´s say ca. 550 B.C. with my neolithic bog-crowd of the blood which was up. This is on sanguine me as it is on my children´s […]
February 2008
Posted in General on February 21st, 2008 Comments Off
ACOUSTIC TURN ( Wilhelm Fink Verlag. Petra M. Mayer Editor ) contains text and “Acoustic Turn” DVD of my May 4. 2006 illustrated lecture in Castle Salzau on ” Quasi Una Missa” ( 1999 West Deutscher Rundfunk commission; it won the 2002 Swedish E.M.S. Prize )
FEBRUARY 2008 IS SUNNY AND COLD AS THE JORDAN RIVER
Posted in General on February 11th, 2008 Comments Off
No bark ! ” I will never get enough recognition as a great singing hound ! I´ll never get what I desire and deserve and crave and readily yelp for and would kill for ;how I´d love to be rolled up in soft recognition, down recognition with Wolfie Good Gawdawg. I am […]
SWEET JANUARY BLUES AGAIN
Posted in General on January 22nd, 2008 Comments Off
I´d asked for a fine shower of left hand pizzicati . Delicately silvery. Difficult. We rehearsed the new string quartet near Rodin´s bronze haunch in the central hall of the Hugh Lane Gallery. How much bow-hair for the ” col legnos” ? I was glad to be back in rainy Dull Bin […]
TENDER IS THE WET JANUARY NIGHT
Posted in General on January 21st, 2008 Comments Off
January 21. 23.15 Lyric Fm broadcast : IRISH MIKROKOSMOI for String Orchestra ( 1996 ) . These are six short ” Scenes From My Receding Past”.
String Quartet No.3
Posted in General, My Music on January 8th, 2008 Comments Off
THIRD STRING QUARTET Frank Corcoran
After my ” MAD SWEENEY” generated works of the mid-nineteen nineties ( ” BUILE SUIBHNE / MAD SWEENEY” for Speaker and Chamber Orchestra , 1995, Text by Seamus Heaney ) , this is my ” Quasi Un Quartetto”, the last of the ” Quasi” series.
In the sense […]
THAT´LL BE THE DAY , DEAF CLINT EASTWOOD
Posted in General on January 8th, 2008 Comments Off
DUBLIN CITY GALLERY THE HUGH LANE
SUNDAYS @ NOON CONCERT SERIES
ADMISSION FREE
Sunday January 13th 2008
Callino Quartet
Frank Corcoran String Quartet No. 3 (2007) première
Gyorgy Kurtag Officium […]
OUR HOUSE TRUNDLED OUT TO HAMBURG / BERGEDORF
Posted in General on December 28th, 2007 Comments Off
So what´s so awful ? Sort, sort out, sift. I always HATED the smell of that book´s paper. Out ! Here´s a last chance to ask why many socks hoarded and hotel bathroom-soap hoarded, bank-statements from before the Flood stashed in the well-thumbed Koran that props up the bed in which it all happened, why […]
Conversation: Fund for Irish Studies, Frank Corcoran to lecture on “The Dolmens’ Lament,” Friday, December 14th at 4:30 p.m.
Subject: Fund for Irish Studies, Frank Corcoran to lecture on “The Dolmens’ Lament,” Friday, December 14th at 4:30 p.m.
Please join us for a lecture by Frank Corcoran on “The Dolmens’ Lament”
Friday, December 14th at […]