Frank Corcoran

HOW AND WHERE TO START.

Me and Gawd an´ me, women, music and noise, my parents, pigs´ orchestra, three Hegiras, hunger for recognition of the cloth, of the good life, the truth, light gleams in the South, water-babies, dreams, kneeling female slaves, masochism mechanism, toothaches, heartaches, death or Death, loneliness on Skellig, being wanted or being loved, madness and early misery, the castrating, wet Celtic football, that´s enough as a start, maybe.

Whence then: Cartesian carping ? Black mood or black bile? Need for parallel lines, yet assymetry in my musical forms, the
Small Nobel For Deep Drilling, that second long “0” in ” theolOgian”, or drowning just at that south landing at Skellig.
Whither my gait, lope, sobbing hobble ?

Why me now here typing ?
My life as a mess, a palimpsest, a swiftly running film-footage, grace, accidental design, as an orchestral composition with strictly metred bits and macrocontrapuntal bits, the raw and the over-cooked, pottage and porridge, wry humour and being appalled.

I bawled crying , six´n a half, as I knocked at kindly Sister Frances´s piano-teacher´s door and, she inviting, of course, told me never to say ” It´s just me!”
Yes I can still see or feel that tactile little tonic for the left hand ( It was “The Rosebud Walz” ) while the melody for the right, no doubt high compositional class, is now gone for ever.

On behalf of Frank Corcoran, please find the mp3s for Quasi Una Missa here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/akbwxnofo3ri6a2/AABXPpTYdyG2nS_jbkXdIv9ja?dl=0 .

Friday 2 November 2012, 8pm, National Concert Hall

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season: Main Season

SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE AND LOSS
Arvo Pärt Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten [6’]

Frank Corcoran Violin Concerto (world premiere) [17’]

Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 [60’]

Alan Smale violin

Christopher Warren-Green conductor

RTÉ NSO LEADER ALAN SMALE GIVES THE FIRST PERFORMANCE of Frank Corcoran’s ‘taut, lean, lyrical, leppin’’ and song-like Violin Concerto that combines, the composer says, ‘fiddling fun, violinistic seriousness and art’s sorrow, and fast, furious, last orchestral thoughts’. Estonian Arvo Pärt’s bewitching, prayer-like elegy for Britten is a haunting recognition of a lost kindred spirit, and Rachmaninov’s swooningly beautiful Second Symphony could have no better champion than the dynamic conductor Christopher Warren-Green.

Soundings, 7pm

In Conversation

Conductor Colman Pearce with Irish composer Frank Corcoran

‘O Cormac, grandson of Conn,’ said Carbery, ‘what is the worst for the body of man?’

‘Not hard to tell,’ said Cormac. ‘Sitting too long, lying too long, long standing, lifting heavy things, exerting oneself beyond one’s strength, running too much, leaping too much, frequent falls, sleeping with one’s leg over the bed-rail, gazing at glowing embers, wax, biestings, new ale, bull-flesh, curdles, dry food, bog-water, rising too early, cold, sun, hunger, drinking too much, eating too much, sleeping too much, sinning too much, grief, running up a height, shouting against the wind, drying oneself by a fire, summer-dew, winter-dew, beating ashes, swimming on a full stomach, sleeping on one’s back, foolish romping.’

‘O Cormac, grandson of Conn,’ said Carbery, ‘what is the worst pleading and arguing?’

‘Not hard to tell,’ said Cormac.
‘Contending against knowledge, contending without proofs, taking refuge in bad language, a stiff delivery, a muttering speech, hair-splitting, uncertain proofs, despising books, turning against custom, shifting one’s pleading, inciting the mob, blowing one’s own trumpet, shouting at the top of one’s voice.’

[Pg 109]

‘O Cormac, grandson of Conn,’ said Carbery, ‘who are the worst for whom you have a comparison?’

‘Not hard to tell,’ said Cormac.
‘A man with the impudence of a satirist, with the pugnacity of a slave-woman, with the carelessness of a dog, with the conscience of a hound, with a robber’s hand, with a bull’s strength, with the dignity of a judge, with keen ingenious wisdom, with the speech of a stately man, with the memory of an historian, with the behaviour of an abbot, with the swearing of a horse-thief,

and he wise, lying, grey-haired, violent, swearing, garrulous, when he says “the matter is settled, I swear, you shall swear.”‘

‘O Cormac, grandson of Conn,’ said Carbery, ‘I desire to know how I shall behave among the wise and the foolish, among friends and strangers, among the old and the young, among the innocent and the wicked.’

‘Not hard to tell,’ said Cormac.
‘Be not too wise, nor too foolish, be not too conceited, nor too diffident, be not too haughty, nor too humble, be not too talkative, nor too silent, be not too hard, nor too feeble.

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Here are the details for the performance of your piece: Caoine

Friday February 24th, 1pm Open Dress Rehearsal, The Mahony Hall, The Helix, DCU, Dublin 9

Saturday February 25th 8pm, Carlingford Heritage Centre, Co Louth

Sunday February 26th 3.30pm, St Ann’s Church, Dawson St., Dublin 2.

ELEGIES

Benjamin Britten: Five Flower Songs

Herbert Howells: Take him, earth, for cherishing

(our performance dedicated to the memory of Vaclav Havel)

Gerald Finzi: Three Short Elegies

Brian Boydell: Two Madrigals

Enda Bates: Pauper’s Lament / A Stealing Sadness

Frank Corcoran: Caoine

MARY DULLEA
Solo Piano
Monday 17th January 2011, 19 30 hr.

Programme of music by Irish and Bavarian composers.

Versicherungskammer Bayern, Maximilianstrase 53, 80538 Munich.

Frank Corcoran Nine Pratoleva Pearls

SAMOBOR MUSIC FESTIVAL
6th INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS COMPETITION “New Note” CROATIA 2017.

Total value of prizes: 4000 €
Deadline for entries: June 4th 2017.
COMPETITION REGULATIONS

1. The competition is open to composers of all ages and nationalities
2. More than one score per composer is permitted
3. All submitted works must have been composed after December 31st 2010 and not awarded a prize in any other competition
4. It is possible to submit works previously performed, but not already published or professionally recorded for commercial use.

GENRE

1. Composition for ZAGREB SOLOISTS (www.zagrebacki-solisti.com/en)
2. Use of tape or live electronics is not permitted
3. Orchestration: 6 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, 1 contrabass
4. Duration: Up to 15 minutes

PRIZES

The First Prize – 2500€ (bruto-includingtaxes) and the concert performance by ZAGREB SOLOISTS on Samobor Music Festival – October7th 2017.
The Second Prize – 1000 € (bruto-including taxes)
The Third Prize – 500 € (bruto-including taxes)
JURY

SRETEN KRSTI?
Zagreb Soloists concert master, violinist (Germany/Serbia – Zagreb Soloists), partner of International Composers Competition „New Note”
NIKŠA GLIGO
musicologist
(Croatia)
FRANK CORCORAN
composer (Ireland)
SRE?KO BRADI? composer and Artistic Director
(Croatia)

Aha, “an ancient stone with the Ogham inscription Corcrain !!! FOG” – a basis for a new tone row perhaps? In Danish aa = ‘oh’ sound, so maybe: Your Corcrain row followed by three unpitched beats, followed by F-A-A-G? My gift to you, happy Christmas.

More and more Corcorans , a slew, swarm, shoal, school, team, band, swoon,

According to archelogical records an ancient stone with the Ogham inscription Corcrain !!! FOG was present on White island in 1879 but has since disappeared by 1949. Ogham script dates from pre christian Ireland. This may suggest that the Corcorans, were active in this area from the 4th – 6th Century. The O’Corcorans sank into obscurity at the period of the Anglo-Norman Invasion, and several branches of the sept removed into the counties of Cork, Kilkenny, and Waterford. In Kilkenny they obtained a settlement from the FitzWalters (or Butlers), who were in possession of their ancient patrimony. And a senior branch of these settlers was represented by the late Most Rev. Michael Corcoran, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, in the commencement of the 19th century; and by the Corcorans of Enniscorthy, in co. Wexford.
The Co. Cork branch of the family settled in Carbery, and are now (1887) represented by Jeremiah (Dan) O’Corcoran, of Bengowe, Parish of Murragh, who has a son, the Rev. Daniel O’Corcoran, a Catholic clergyman in the city of Cork
The first mention found to date of the Corcoran family in Irish historical records is reference to the O’Corcrain Sept, a division of the Clan, living in county Fermanagh near the shores of Lough Erne. In 1014-1022 AD, Mael Sechnaill II reigned as High-King of Ireland after Brian Boruma’s death. For twenty years after the death in 1022 of Mael Secnaill II, many claimants sought the throne and during this period the Chief Government of Ireland was vested in the persons of two men: Cuán O Lóchán, the King’s chief poet, and Corcran of Lismore, an Erenagh. Corcran the Cleric was Abbot of Inis Cealtra. It is recorded that Chief Corcran was killed in battle in 1090 in County Fermanagh. His son, Felimidh, who married Maeve O’Brien daughter of the King of Thomond in 1130, succeeded him. In the Annals of the Four Masters, there is mention of thirty Chiefs of the Corcoran family from 1250 to 1480. In 1140, Maelinmum O’Corcrain was Bishop of Armagh and in 1373, John O’Corcrain was Bishop of Clogher. Three of the learned and respected Erenachs, lay ecclesiastics, of County Fermanagh are recorded as Daire O’Corcrain, Padraig O’Corcrain and Conn O’Corcrain.
The O’Corcrain territory was invaded by the Normans in 1170 AD. It was not until 1590 that the Normans gained control over Fermanagh.
The ruins of a castle, once occupied by the Corcorans, are located west of Lough Erne near Crom Castle, family seat of the Earl of Erne. The Corcoran castle was erected in 1611 AD and destroyed in 1764 AD.
During the Plantations of Ulster in 1610 A. D. and the invasion of Ireland by Cromwell in 1649 AD, the Corcorans were finally scattered. Many settled on lands in Counties Mayo and Sligo and throughout the Counties of the South, principally Offaly, Tipperary and Galway where the MacCorcorans had settled previously.
By (1847-1864), according to Griffiths Valuation, there were 1336 Corcoran households in Ireland with Cork (179), Mayo (128), Kilkenny (128), Tipperary (124), Offaly (102), Roscommon (82), Laois (79) and Galway (60).
By 1911, accourng to the Irish Census, there were 4736 individuals with the Corcoran surname in Ireland, with Cork (736), Mayo (602), Dublin (547), Offaly (343), Loais (343), Tipperary (318), Roscommon (290), Galway (279), Kerry (248) and Kilkenny (231).
It is recorded that the Sept of MacCorcrain, son of Corcran, was prominent in Counties Offaly and Tipperary until the end of the 16th century when this branch of the family was scattered and settled in Counties throughout the South and West of Ireland. The topographical poem written by O Heerin in 1470 and commented by John O’Donoven in 1862 places the Corcorans in the territory of Ely O Carroll in Offaly and Tipperary in proximity to Kilenaule in the Plains of Birr.
The head of this family of Corcorans was Chief of Clann Ruainne in Ely O’Carroll country. It is of interest to note that the shield of the Family Coat of Arms of the Corcorans is described in heraldic language as: “On a silver shield (argent) is a sword between two lions rampant”, that of the O’Carrolls of Ely as: “Sable two lions rampant combatant or armed and langued gules supporting a sword point upwards proper pommel and hilt of the first”, and that of the O’Meaghar family of O’Carrolls of Ely as: “Azure two lions rampant combatant or supporting a sword argent”. The shields of the family Coats of Arms of Corcoran, O’Carroll and O’Meaghar are of such similarity as to indicate a single clan since all clansmen would readily recognize the shields.
The Corcorans were famous in Irish history as ecclesiastics, writers, chroniclers, bards and warriors and this historic fame is recorded in the motto on the Family Coat of Arms, “In Fide et in Bello Fortis” (Strong in Faith and in War). The Crest is a sea bird in flight. It is to be noted that the Corcoran territory was around Lough Erne and the noun Erne is defined in English as “Sea Eagle”. Brian O Corcrain, Vicar of Cleenish and Bard to the Maguires wrote the Celtic Arthurian Romance, Eachtra Mhacaoimh-an-Iolair “The Story of the Eagle Boy”.
People

Ann Corcoran (born 1951), Australian politician
Brian Corcoran (born 1973), former Irish sportsman
Captain Corcoran, character from Gilbert & Sullivan’s (1878) English opera, “H.M.S. Pinafore”
Danny Corcoran (1916 – 1938), Newfoundland Ranger (Game Warden)
James Desmond “Des” Corcoran (1929–2004), Australian politician
Farrel Corcoran, author and academic
Fred Corcoran, (1905 – 1977), World Golf Hall of Famer
Frank Corcoran (born 1944), Irish composer
Jim Corcoran (born 1949), Canadian musician
John Corcoran (logician) American philosopher and logician, University of Buffalo (SUNY)
Kevin Corcoran (born 1949), American director, producer and former child actor
Lawrence J. Corcoran (1859 – 1891), American pitcher in Major League Baseball
Michael Corcoran (1827 – 1863), American general and close confidant of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War
Thomas E. Corcoran (1838 – 1904), United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the Medal of Honor
Thomas Gardiner Corcoran, a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s brain trust
Timothy Hugh Corcoran (born 1978), American baseball player
Tommy Corcoran (1869 – 1960), American baseball player
William Corcoran Eustis (1862 – 1921), wealthy inhabitant of Washington, D.C. and grandson of William Wilson Corcoran.Notable for being the chairman of the inauguration committee for the first inauguration of Woodrow Wilson in 1913.
William Wilson Corcoran (1798–1888), American banker, philanthropist and art collector
Paul Corcoran – famous printer of Corcoran t-shirts
Etaoin Corcoran – famous Corcoran and lover of Corcoran t-shirts

Corcoran may also refer to:
Places

Corcoran, California, United States
Corcoran, Minnesota, United States
Corcoran, Minneapolis, Minnesota, a neighborhood in Minneapolis, United States
Corcoran Woods, 210 acres (0.85 km2) donated by Edward S. Corcoran to the State of Maryland, United States

Education

The Corcoran College of Art and Design, art school located in Washington, DC, United States
Corcoran Departments of History and Philosophy, University of Virginia, United States
Corcoran Hall, The George Washington University, historic site in Washington, DC, United States
The Corcoran Memorial Lectures, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Corcoran High School, Syracuse, NY, United States

Other

The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, United States
Fort Corcoran in northern Virginia, American Civil War structure
California State Prison, Corcoran, located in California, United States
Corcoran Memorial Prize, award for outstanding work by graduate students in statistics at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom

See also

Cochrane, some people who were originally surnamed Ó Corcráin today bear the surname Cochrane.

References

^ “Corcoran Name Meaning and History”. Ancestry.com. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
^ “Corkery Name Meaning and History”. Ancestry.com. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
^ Grenham, John: “Clans and Families of Ireland: The Heritage and Heraldry of Irish Clans and Families”, Gill & Macmillan Ltd
^ Neafsey, Edward (2002). The Surnames of Ireland: Origins and Numbers of Selected Irish Surnames. Irish Root Cafe. p. 36. ISBN 0-94013-497-7.

Categories: Surnames

NTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR CHORAL COMPOSITION

The International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) will host the IFCM International Competition for Choral Composition from time to time. The chief aim of which is to promote the creation and wide distribution of new and innovative choral repertoire.

The date of the next IFCM Competition for Choral Composition is yet to be announced.

Winner 2013
Francis Corcoran (Ireland) “Eight Haikus”

JURY 2013

Graham Lack (Germany)
John A. Pamintuan (The Philippines)
Libby Larsen (USA)
Olli Kortekangas (Finland)
Paul Stanhope (Australia)

Philip Casey: Born in London 1950, grew up in Co.Wexford. Poet and novelist and disseminator of Irish culture. Member of Aosdàna.

Frank Corcoran: Composer and author. He has made innumerable radio-programmes over the years on modern music and contemporary culture, including with: RTÉ, R.A.I. Rome, S.F.B, DLF, UWFM, NDR, Radio Bremen, RIAS Berlin, WDR Köln, HR Frankfurt, BR München, Lyric FM. His over thirty years co-operation with NDR still continues with his radiophonic analyses of classical masterpieces (“Prisma-Musik” with NDR Kultur)

Benjamin Dwyer: Irish composer, guitarist, author. Professor at Middlesex University, UK.

Niksa Gligo: Born in Split in 1946. Croatian musicologist; professor at the Musical Academy of Zagreb University. Many years of working with the Zagreb Biennale, including Artistic Director in 1979.

Hans-Dieter Grünefeld: Born in Leer 1955 (Germany). Studied at Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. Journalist (Music & Literature), innumerable publications in books (co-author) and special interest magazines. Also busy as lecturer, moderator, teacher.

Georg Hajdu: Born 1960 in Goettingen of Hungarian parents. Studied in Germany and the U.S.A. Since 2004 Professor of Multimedia Music at Hamburg Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater. Composer. Researcher at the cutting edge of new musical technology.

Axel Klein: Born 1962 in Muenster, Westphalia. Musicologist and expert on Irish contemporary scene. Among his studies of frank Corcoran and Others, see his contributions to Dictionary of Irish Biography 2009 and Encyklopedia of Music in Ireland 2013.

Ulrich Leyendecker: German composer. Born 1946 in Wuppertal. Professor of theory and composition at Hamburg and, since 1994 at Heidelberg-Mannheim.

James Liddy: 1934-2008. Irish poet and novelist. Lived and taught at Milwaukee University for many years. Member of Aosdana.

Jane O’Leary: Born in Hartford, Connecticut. In Ireland since 1972. Composer and pianist. Founded Concorde, the renowned Irish ensemble to perform and disseminate contemporary Irish composers. Member of Aosdana, the Irish Academy of the Arts.

Colman Pearce: Born in Dublin in 1938. Conductor, pianist and composer. Until some years ago Principal Conductor and Musical Director of the Missippi Symphony Orchestra. Premiered several Frank Corcoran symphonic works over the years.

Hans-Heinrich Raab: German radio producer of contemporary music and modern culture. Born near Greifswald, workek with Radio DDR II and, since 1990 NDR 3 (hamburg). His programme series “Prisma-Musik” since 2004 is an important series for modern music, national and international.

Gabriel Rosenstock: renowned poet working in the Irish Language, haikuist and translator. Author of over 100 books.

Alan Smale: Born in Devon in 1943. Studied violin from an early age. Led the RTE Concert Orchestra,the Irish Film Orchestra and then the National Symphony Orchestra until his retirement last year. Founder and director of the Degani Ensemble.

Wolfgang Tolk: German artist and designer. Studied in Braunschweig and Duesseldorf. Invented the halogen lamp minimum. Since the early nineties he works with minimalist, linear objects mostly out of wood and steelin cooperation with e.g. allglass, boffi, cappelini, living divani, porro etc.

Guido Zaccagnini: Roman musician, pianist, composer, radio and television music producer (translated Charles Rosen “The Classical Style”). Professor at “Santa Cecilia” National Music Conservatory, Rome.