Frank Corcoran

Frank Corcoran schafft in seinem elektroakustischen Werk ein Beziehungsgeflecht der Bedeutungen und

Missdeutungen. (Deutschlandradio / Bettina Straub)

Das Wortspiel und Sprichwort “Tradurre – Tradire” will sagen: “Übersetzen bedeutet Verrat, Betrug”.
Frank Corcoran setzt sich in seiner Komposition ganz wörtlich mit diesem Grundproblem jeder sprachlichen Übersetzung und Vermittlung auseinander.

Anhand eines kurzen gälischen Gedichts des irischen Poeten Gabriel Rosenstock und dessen englischer und deutscher Übersetzung schafft Corcoran in seinem elektroakustischen Werk ein Beziehungsgeflecht der Bedeutungen und Missdeutungen.

Die polyphone Klangkomposition für vier Stimmen führt den aufmerksamen Hörer in philosophische Abgründe.
Mit: Maulwerker

Ton und Technik: Folkmar Hein, Elektonisches Studio der TU Berlin

Produktion: DLR Berlin 2004

Länge: 24’01

Frank Corcoran, 1944 in Tipperary/Irland geboren, ist Komponist für Kammermusik, Symphonien, Chor- und elektroakustische Werke.

Zahlreiche Preise. Er lebt in Italien und Hamburg.

Ego scribo.

Ego scribor.

Ergo sum.

Ego sum scriptor.

Ego sum scriptum.

Ego sensus scripti et stylus et pixelli et Beatifica Unio cogitationis cogitatorisque.

Ego Deus ? Non !

Ego Sum ” BRI DANA”.

Why, oh why, a last Vesuvio Sonnet ?
They’re flowing like lava down my mountain-side.
What molten rocks have got inside my bonnet
To want to stanch the flow of words broadside ?

This volcano fever , these pictures of burning woe,
His sea of pitch and bitumen, tephra , ash,
Mr. Dante made into sadism, slow.
He fed it hot to swine that love their mash.

My Catholic world, your Hell is bleak, pure terror.
God’s all-knowing, male . ( He makes no error… )
How reconcile good saints, so meek and mild ?

Vesuvio’s deep with horrors and with anguish.
Its lost souls howl and yowl , forever languish
In brimstone storm, in seismic yawings wild.

Join this trinity of Irish musicians and composers for an alternative St. Patrick’s Day celebration at Chapter Arts Centre.

This event is delivered in partnership with The Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland, and CMC’s Linda O’Shea Farren will MC the event and interview composers and performers.

Internationally esteemed composer and virtuoso guitarist Benjamin Dwyer, composer and voice & electronics artist Jenn Kirby and flautist Emma Coulthard present an exciting collection of contemporary music that reflects the extraordinary diversity and richness of output from the island of Ireland. Ranging from a new incantation for St. Patrick to the witnessing of the ancient Sheela-na-gig, this music will challenge definitions and present a fresh perspective of contemporary music from Ireland.

£10 (£7 conc) to include post-concert wine reception hosted by CMC Ireland
Age 14+

Programme
Emma Coulthard, flute
Frank Corcoran One Minute for St Patrick (world premiere)
Fergus Johnston Planxty
John McLachlan Filament I (world premiere)
Benjamin Dwyer Crow
John Buckley les oiseaux rèvent dans les arbres (UK premiere)

CMC Composer’s Voice: Linda O’Shea Farren talks to flautist Emma Coulthard and composer John McLachlan

Jenn Kirby, voice/electronics
Jenn Kirby The Phonetics Project
Jenn Kirby Take a Trip

CMC Composer’s Voice: Linda O’Shea Farren talks to composer performer Jenn Kirby

*** Short Break ***

Benjamin Dwyer, guitar
Benjamin Dwyer Ètude No. 1 ‘Relentless’
John McLachlan Sympathetic Strings (UK premiere)
Benjamin Dwyer Ètude No. 6 ‘African Print’
Benjamin Dwyer from KnowingUnknowing

(with Emma Coulthard, flute)
Benjamin Dwyer HAG from SacrumProfanum (world premiere)

CMC Composer’s Voice: Linda O’Shea Farren talks to composer performer Benjamin Dwyer

*** Please join us for a post-concert wine reception hosted by CMC Ireland ***

Benjamin Dwyer on his new work HAG:

HAG from SacrumProfanum

SacrumProfanum is work-in-progress that explores the enigmatic stone carvings found all over Ireland (and in parts of Britain) known as Sheela-na-gigs. I have spent the last ten years travelling across these lands studying, photographing and sketching these mysterious figures. It is clear to me that this abject though mysterious figure, because of her very complexity, has an extraordinary associative power. What could she represent as witness to Ireland’s unfolding political, religious and social histories?

I have thus tried to create music exploring themes such as feminism, colonialism, identity, religion, symbol, rite, sexuality and the disintegration of Gaelic culture. In a score that combines contemporary music interfacing with traditional Irish forms, instruments and sean-nós singing, SacrumProfanum explores these themes through raw, visceral, often abject music.

HAG is perhaps the most abject of all the works in SacrumProfanum. Composed for amplified flute and bowed guitar, it takes on the role of the Sheela-na-gig, or the HAG, as she has often been called. She’s an underdog to fight for; she’s a defiant hag that rejects colonial narratives; while she’s a witness that shows her scars of damage, she also rebelliously spits back in the faces of her oppressors; disrupting dominant notions of beauty and feminine grace, she is an ‘ugly’ feminist that asserts her sexual agency and defiantly returns the gaze of the male uncomfortably back at him.

Venue
Chapter Arts
Market Road, Canton
Cardiff
Wales
Venue Contact Info
Chapter Arts
Works
Emma Coulthard’s Planxty(2018)
Fergus Johnston
Flute (preferably with sliding head joint) and electronics (2/4 channel)
7 min
Filament I(2014)
John McLachlan
Flute
5 min
Crow(1999)
Benjamin Dwyer
Recorder and tape
13 min
Jenn Kirby
Jenn Kirby(b. 1987)

Jenn Kirby is a composer, based in Dublin. She composes both acoustic and electronic contemporary works.

COMUNICATO STAMPA

> IL CONCERTO DI DUBLINO AL MANCINELLI

> Il Maestro Frank Corcoran e i Solisti della National Symphony Orchestra of
> Ireland protagonisti, il 14 luglio, dell’evento dedicato alla musica
> classica irlandese e italiana

>
> “Le sue note sono capaci d’evocare i paesaggi da sogno dell’Isola di
> Smeraldo, mondi arcaici che si sposano a magiche epopee”, così alcuni
> critici hanno descritto la musica del compositore irlandese Frank Corcoran.
> Dopo il successo dell’esibizione nel luglio dello scorso anno, il Maestro
> Corcoran torna al Ridotto del Teatro Mancinelli di Orvieto per presentare un
> particolare evento dedicato alla musica classica irlandese e italiana. In
> programma, sabato 14 luglio alle ore 21, il CONCERTO DI DUBLINO.
> Adele Govier (prima viola della National Simphony Orchestra di Dublino) e il
> pianista R.T.E. Fergal Caulfield presentano un programma misto per viola e
> pianoforte con opere italiane e irlandesi, tra cui Puccini, Esposito e la
> prima dell’opera del Maestro Corcoran dal titolo “Hot Dialogues” per viola e
> pianoforte. Lo stesso Maestro Corcoran partecipa al concerto introducendo le
> opere e i musicisti, in questo appuntamento che si annuncia come imperdibile
> evento per gli amanti della musica classica.
> Questo il programma della serata:
> Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) “Nocturne” per Viola & Piano (1911)
> Frank Corcoran “Hot Dialogues” (2017 – 3 Movements) prima esecuzione
> assoluta
> Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) “Foglio d’Album” (c.1910?)
> Chris Corcoran “Deep Blue Windows” (2018) per Viola e Pianoforte – prima
> esecuzione assoluta
> Luciano Berio “Wasserklavier” (1965) per Pianoforte Solo
> Petr Eben (1929-2007) Fantasia sopra “Rorate Coeli” (1982) per Pianoforte
> Solo
> Michele Esposito (1855-1929) “Tramonto ” per solo Piano, Op.61 No.3 (1912)
> George Enescu(1881-1955) “Konzertstueck” per Viola e Pianoforte (1906)
>
> Da molti anni il Maestro Corcoran organizza il Concerto di Dublino
> coinvolgendo alcuni dei suoi amici musicisti della National Symphony
> Orchestra di Dublino.
> Quest’anno, oltre al concerto in programma il 14 luglio al Mancinelli, viene
> presentato anche un secondo concerto a Bolsena, nel Piccolo Teatro Cavour,
> il 15 luglio alle ore 18.
> Una grande occasione, dunque, per ascoltare uno dei massimi compositori
> contemporanei che ha scelto la nostra terra per lavorare e trovare
> l’ispirazione necessaria per la composizione.
> Frank Corcoran è nato nel 1944 a Tipperary, in Irlanda. Ha studiato a
> Maynooth, Dublino, Roma e Berlino (con Boris Blacher). Insegna ad Amburgo
> dal 1983, ed è stato Fulbright Professor negli Stati Uniti nel 1989-1990. I
> suoi lavori sono stati eseguiti e trasmessi regolarmente in Europa, Stati
> Uniti, Australia e Asia. È stato premiato con numerosi riconoscimenti
> internazionali per la sua opera, tra i quali il Premier Prix del Bourges
> Festival nel 1999 con Sweeney’s Vision; l’EMS Prize a Stoccolma nel 2002 con
> Quasi Una Missa; il Cork International Festival nel 2012 con Two Unholy
> Haikus; e il First Prize dell’International Foundation for Choral Music con
> Eight Haikus.
> Tra le opere più recenti si segnala: Cello Concerto (2015, Dublino); Quasi
> Una Storia for String Orchestra (2015, New York); Eight Haikus (2013,
> Manila); Violin Concerto (2012, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland);
> Quasi una Sarabanda (2011, Basilea, Zurigo, Berna); Song of Terror and Love
> (2011, New York).
> Frank Corcoran è un membro dell’Accademia delle Arti di Irlanda. Vive e
> lavora nella campagna di Bagnoregio da circa 10 anni.
> La discografia completa è disponibile sul sito www.frankcorcoran.com
> Il Concerto di Dublino – Ridotto del Teatro Mancinelli sabato 14 luglio ore
> 21
> Ingresso euro 12 – Ridotto Soci TEMA euro 10
>
> I biglietti del concerto saranno venduti sabato 14 luglio, a partire dalle
> ore 19, al botteghino del Teatro Mancinelli di Orvieto.
>
>
>
>
>

I felt the enormous strain on the earth’s skin
Tighter and tighter the taut vulcano’s drum…
I knew the mountain’s surface was getting thin.
When would its explosion begin to whimper, to hum ?

How long before the magma, the whole shebang
Might collapse as then, in terrible years of yore ?
From across the bay I’d also feel the whang
And wham and slam and shout and awful roar…

No, mankind can not take very much real.
Imagination falters before those Gates of Hell
Yet pressure mounts; our instruments work well.

How facile are words ; our film unwinds, each reel
Shows blue-white fires, caverns , the molten smell,
Last cries of burning pain, our rush pell-mell.

Please find below a personal invitation to a concert of Irish chamber music presented by renowned Irish composer and

Aosdána member, Frank Corcoran.

This special programme of Irish music, new and old, will be performed by the Pratoleva Piano Trio, members of the

National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and will feature the Italian premieres of Frank Corcoran’s Piano Trio and

Duetti Irlandesi on “sean nós” old Irish melodies (2016 ).

The concert will take place at the Embassy of Ireland, Villa Spada on the Gianicolo on Saturday 27 May at 6pm.

Il compositore irlandese Maestro Frank Corcoran vive e lavora nella campagna di Bagnoregio da circa 10 anni.

Nato a Tipperary (Irlanda) si è formato prima nella sua terra di origine, in seguito a Berlino poi in Italia. E’ stato professore di composizione ad Amburgo dal 1983.

La sua opera ha ricevuto molti riconoscimenti e premi nazionali e internazionali: le sue composizioni sinfoniche, elettroniche, corali e da camera sono state suonate e trasmesse in Europa, USA, Canada, Australia e Asia.

Da molti anni il Maestro Corcoran organizza il Concerto di Dublino coinvolgendo alcuni dei suoi amici musicisti della National Symphony Orchestra di Dublino.

Quest’anno verranno presentati due concerti, uno ad Orvieto nel celebre teatro Mancinelli il 14 luglio alle ore 21:00;
il secondo concerto a Bolsena nel Piccolo Teatro Cavour il 15 luglio alle ore 18:00.

Adele Govier (prima viola della National Simphony Orchestra di Dublino) e il pianista R.T.E. Fergal Caulfield presenteranno un programma misto per viola e pianoforte con opere italiane e irlandesi, tra cui Puccini, Esposito e la prima dell’opera del Maestro Corcoran dal titolo “Hot Dialogues” per viola e pianoforte.

Lo stesso Maestro Corcoran parteciperà ai concerti introducendo le opere e i musicisti, in questi due appuntamenti

che si annunciano come imperdibili eventi per gli amanti della musica classica.

I know this is from last year, but thinking back on his sublime

Music for the Book of Kells and
Trauerfelder/Goirt an Bhróin/Fields of Sorrow
at the Hugh Lane Gallery last December, which reduced members of the audience (including this scribe) to tears, I really think his international recognition should be more widely known in Ireland.
Yes, it’s ‘Art Music.’ Yes, it may take a few listens to adjust the ear.
But the rewards are great.

I’m rather proud he’s my third cousin! He will be 70 this year, so it’s no better time to discover him if you haven’t already.

Frank Corcoran awarded prestigious IFCM choral composition prize

FUNNY ENOUGH , HAMBURG WASN’T FUNNY . Frank Corcoran

Yes, I was highminded.

I was expecing high ethical standards , poor fool, as I slithered up from Stuttgart

to that infamous , unhealthy Milchstrasse Bus-stop !

Yes, my step teetered over the threshold into that Budge Palais.

No welcome! Nobody to shake the hand and mutter “Willkommen !” No one.

Too soon I saw how several colleagues died their too-early cancer-death – and too soon after being pensioned.

( Was it those asbestos blackboards ? Was it their colleagues’ HATE ?

Was it the Hamburg Gestapo Gauleiter who had tortured just there where I had to take my modest lunch in

thebuilding’s bemused bowels ? )

Elsewhere I have written about Werner Kruetzi’s Minor Nobel Prize , Just Missed, for his famous

” The- Distance-From-My-Luebeck-Mistress’s Bed -To -My-Hochschule-Lectures ” Algorhythm.

“THEORY” was largely a bad joke

– Palestrina ( ? ) counterpoint and Bach ( ? ) Chorales and , well, WHAT ?

Not good.

But ” COMPOSITION ” was an even bigger joke.Yes, Werner helped to poach from the (vanishing ) post- Ligeti

pool of students.

And all this from colleagues who had never, never composed a single five thirteenths bar – or its sequences.

Was this good ? For our students ? Intelligent ? Weep, weep.