Frank Corcoran

irish composer

OFF DE TOP OF MY HOT HEAD

But how and where and why should they hear and listen to ( keep distinct, please ) any
Corcoran composition ? Which festivals, radio-stations, multipliers to cast broad ?
Why
listen ? Without the necessary accompanying hype, advertising, ?
– Are you kidding ? In this age of Scopology Gone Mad ? ( Ours is the age of Peeping Tom, the viewer-zapper rather than Listening Tom, the courageous searcher for a well-crafted , exquisitely composed musical work ? )
Who has any longer the capacity / facility/ expectancy/ musical culture to “think tones” with their composer ? To listen to and to understand any musical structure that lasts longer than , say, a minute ? Illiterate hearing is global ; for where are the kindergartens and little schools to school our skill of listening ?

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