Frank Corcoran » Podcast http://www.frankcorcoran.com irish composer Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:36:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © Frank Corcoran 2010 FBCorcoran@aol.com (Frank Corcoran) FBCorcoran@aol.com (Frank Corcoran) http://www.frankcorcoran.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Frank Corcoran http://www.frankcorcoran.com 144 144 irish composer Frank Corcoran Frank Corcoran FBCorcoran@aol.com no no MUSIC FOR THE BOOK OF KELLS http://www.frankcorcoran.com/music-for-the-book-of-kells/ http://www.frankcorcoran.com/music-for-the-book-of-kells/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:13:29 +0000 Frank Corcoran http://www.frankcorcoran.com/music-for-the-book-of-kells/05/03/2007/ It was an intolerably humid summer-night at Lake Michigan , 1990 in Milwaukee. My drained year as a Fulbright Guest-Professor in the U.S.A. was ending ; two shadows lay over the family, my wife´s insanity and the violent death of my oldest son, Rory, shortly before. The University of Wisconsin Library purchased a facsimile edition of the Book of Kells in Lucerne. It commissioned me to compose a work for this event. My soul´s flood-gates opened then. This one-movement canvas for a vast array of percussion and , at the end,
Irish pianist ( – I was he- ) paints my Early Medieval Ireland, that strange interfacing of Celtic monastic Christianity and pagan tribal forces, war , peace, prayer, cattle-stealers and saints and druids and kings…. Quiet opening bells and gongs give way to deep drums, later timpani and brake-drums, an great ocean of sound-associations .

MUSIC FOR THE BOOK OF KELLS (1990)

All that we saw was his shadow under his shield

5 perc pf MS13′
Commissioned by Book of Kells Committee
of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
Premiere: 27 May 1990. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.
New Music Ensemble, Frank Corcoran (pf), conductor Pavel Burda.
Recording:
Mad Sweeney. Percussion Modern, Frank Corcoran(pf), conductor Dieter Cichewiecz.

Black Box 1999. BBM1026

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]]> http://www.frankcorcoran.com/music-for-the-book-of-kells/feed/ 2 0:00:55 It was an intolerably humid summer-night at Lake Michigan , 1990 in Milwaukee. My drained year as a Fulbright Guest-Professor in the U.S.A. was ending ; two shadows lay over the family, my wife´s insanity and the violent death of my oldest son, R[...] It was an intolerably humid summer-night at Lake Michigan , 1990 in Milwaukee. My drained year as a Fulbright Guest-Professor in the U.S.A. was ending ; two shadows lay over the family, my wife´s insanity and the violent death of my oldest son, Rory, shortly before. The University of Wisconsin Library purchased a facsimile edition of the Book of Kells in Lucerne. It commissioned me to compose a work for this event. My soul´s flood-gates opened then. This one-movement canvas for a vast array of percussion and , at the end, Irish pianist ( – I was he- ) paints my Early Medieval Ireland, that strange interfacing of Celtic monastic Christianity and pagan tribal forces, war , peace, prayer, cattle-stealers and saints and druids and kings…. Quiet opening bells and gongs give way to deep drums, later timpani and brake-drums, an great ocean of sound-associations . MUSIC FOR THE BOOK OF KELLS (1990) All that we saw was his shadow under his shield 5 perc pf MS13′ Commissioned by Book of Kells Committee of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Premiere: 27 May 1990. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA. New Music Ensemble, Frank Corcoran (pf), conductor Pavel Burda. Recording: Mad Sweeney. Percussion Modern, Frank Corcoran(pf), conductor Dieter Cichewiecz. Black Box 1999. BBM1026 Click on the player to hear an excerpt. If you wish to download it as a podcast, Subscribe to FrankCorcoran.com RSS Otherwise just click on the player below. (requires Macromedia Flash) Podcast FBCorcoran@aol.com no no