Frank Corcoran

CELLO CONCERTO 2014 VARIATIONS ON MYSELF for Chamber Orchestra 2013 IN THE DEEP HEART´S CORE for Solo Harp 2013 EIGHT HAIKUS ( S.S.A.A.T.T.B.B. ) 2013 4 PIECES FOR TWO CLARINETS 2013 5 TENORLIEDER 2012 CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA 2012 TWO UNHOLY HAIKUS ( S.A.T.B. ) 2012 A DARK SONG ( Solo Bassclarinet ) 2011 [...]

National Chamber Choir performs Frank Corcoran´s “CAOINE” ( 1973 ) in “Elegies” Feb. 25 . Carlingford Heritage Centre Feb. 26 . St. Ann´s Church, Dawson St., Dublin. also in ” An Irish Colloquy” : 18. April Kilmacanogue, Wicklow. 19. ” Waterford. 20. ” Galway 21 ” Callan, Co. Kilkenny 22 ” Hugh Lane Gallery , [...]

1967 in Dublin I began “studying” piano with Miss Elizabeth Huban – yes, check back to Cortot and Schnabel and she in her electric Paris before the War. Wow! She then said : ” Now press that four part C major chord down. Again. Softly. That tenor voice isn´t singing . More tone. Now pianissimo. [...]

Once upon a time there was this little songster in unfading June, the gab and throat well laid back, somehow a survivor bent on finishing the trellised page. Tonight´s is no story of mating with a white pony while the orchestral tin-whistle discreetly turns away. It grows. I type. It empties. Watch that passacaglia bass, [...]

1. Let us, hush, hush up our global rubbish musical, that lovely Pax Americana Musicale whose ( verily minimally ) musical few blaring bars pelvic – now for sixty years – ( – More ? Is it SO long ? ) defyingly occupy not only any high musical ground which may no longer exist but [...]

How bored ! how boring ! These cactus faces have bored Our Autumn to death I thus “translate” treacherously treacherous Gabriel Rosenstock´s “treacherous” Haiku, itself a ” treacherous” translation of Issa´s 1814 master-poem … So, yes, I´d say it´s the tone, my twist, a few vowels, your stance, minimal art not on my auntie. ( [...]

Sunday 19th. February 2012 LYRIC / IRISH RADIO broadcast: : Frank Corcoran CLARINET QUINTET ( Vanbrugh Quartet and Fintan Sutton, clarinets . 2009 RTE commission ) and: A DARK SONG ( 2011 . Fintan Sutton, Bass clarinet solo ) ( “read this space; watch my lips; be ready for the dizzy MRT.” )

now adieu

Certainly I will compose a Cello Concerto. How ? Certainly great Dvorak towers. Logical, Lutoslawsky´s Concerto is Music Drama of the highest order. When then ? This blessed night ?! How then ? ( – Well, eg. for a start, mine is not the tonal option of Dvorak´s lovely and virtuoso washed sheen, his parallel [...]

Certainly I had to study Berg , Beethoven and Max Bruch and them all; how to make my new Concerto sing and soar, how thin out the accompanying orchestra ( eg. I use no tuba, little enough brass, sparing percussion ) to let the violin get lift-off at the opening of my Movement 1. The [...]