Frank Corcoran

Four weeks now since I fled Humbug City for southern climes. Climbing, the aircraft waggled its tail….
Here all is ” Paletti”, great April dawns still washed by pink as the Spring weather struggles to be born. A green explosion of wild flowers, vast Lazio sheep-herds, peasants’ chat.
Same as last year – the hunt is on for musical form, forms, symmetric and as- , the relationships of the composed parts to the imagined total, the whole hog, finished and baked new work.
Until the summer recordings of the Cello Concerto and “Rhapsodic Bowing” for 8 Celli , the new “Irish Duets” for Cello and Piano and the January 2016 spawned Piano Trio ( with Viola ) , there’ll be the inevitable suspension of flow as expectancy rises. A good buoyancy, the musical pen poised and pared . For what new work ?
Ah. And, yes, the old questions will remain this golden – Hellish summer : why ? For whom ? How ?

Well, it was after America and things were now very bad. Well, we were in the last stages. But how could I ever prove to the Court that she was starkers ? Raving ? Well, luckily the Judge ordered it. Well, he commissioned Hantel-Quittmann , the Court’s psychologistman. Well, Hantel – Quittmann wrote for the Court his
Report. Well,with this we nobbled her.
Well, you’d have thought that stopped injustice for the family . Well, no.Well, Hantel – Quittmann had written an enormously bloated Court’s Nobble Report .
Out of the thirty pages that the Court needed to nobble her( we’ll call them the Thirty Nobble Pages ) , well, Hantel-Quittmann had blown and bloated it up to make a hundred and thirty nobble pages for his Court
Psychologist’s Nobble Her Report . Well, of course, this quadrupled the Court Psychologist’s nobble fee which he demanded for
writing ( and for bloating ) that blown up Nobble Report .
Well, the Court demanded I pay Hantel-Quittman’s enormous Court Nobble Fee ( call it C.N.F. for short.
Well, broke, I bleated.
Well,broken, I took down a measuring instrument from the Court-walls and in a jiffy I had no trouble at all in demonstrating how good old Hantel -Quittmann had
out of the Thirty Nobble Pages made his hundred and thirty pages .

Well, he had just repeated himself without blushing. How well he’d padded out the thirty pages. our noble nobbler . How well he had doubled and quadrupled his nobble-material

so as, without wink or blush or grin, to swell the C.N.F. enormously. .
Well, I pointed this out first to the Judge and then to the Court ” Revisor” ( – over in Altona he was , I remember ) – I protested that our noble Nobble Report had been swollen to over a hundred andthirty pages whereas its kern needed only thirty nobble pages.
Well, the Court Revisor claimed that all the Nobble Pages were necessary and he

denied that Hantle-Quittmann had blown up his pages out of all proportions, that Hantel-Quittmann had been, well, engaged in a bit of very
expensive fiddling. I’d just have to pay by thenobble page.

Well, I refused to pay a C.N.F. more than for thirty pages. Well, they insisted I pay the C.N.F. in full, Hantel-Quittmann’s grandiosely fiddled hundred and thirty noble pages. Well, I
stuck
to my guns.
Well, the Court then ruled that for each C.N.F. due on each unpaid nobble page I’d just have to sit in jail, – for a nobble, noble page a day.
Well, I then went to jail in Altona. Well, I sat exactly one hundred days (a page a sat day … ). Well.
And that , well, taught me?
Well, it did not. Well, if it had to be done again, would I etc. etc.

Well, I would. Well, no, it’s never easy to nobble. To be noble….
Ah well….

Pavel Burda was easily the best conductor ever of my MUSIC FOR THE BOOK OF KELLS for Five Percussion And

Piano. At the Milwaukee premiere, we are now talking summer of 1990, his reading was startlingly right – a deft and

moving tempo, nimble conducting, the Early Irish argument flowing, sound-explosions properly controlled and

leashed till the exact moments of highest dramatic tension. Great power brandished and wielded with Burda’s gongs

and tam-tam and rhythmic canon with the two big drums and the timps.

Magisterial . Pavel Burda. Immensely moving. Getting on twenty six years now. But that Milwaukee percussion premiere

still sounds. Mighty.

Hier noch ein scan zum Buch, das in der Zeitschrift HiFi & Records 4 / 2105 angekündigt ist.

( Amazon ist ab 1. Oktober aktiv. Ich werde auch noch eine Abbildung des Buches hinzufügen. )

FESTSCHRIFT FRANK CORCORAN – An Irish Composer Invents Himself

ISBN Number : 978 – 3 – 00 – 050153 – 1

A HAIKU ON THIS HOT DAY

My Festschrift was sent,

Lost, refound,redelivered….

Dancing Dublin shouts !

Das Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD (auch DAAD-Stipendium genannt) besteht im Kern aus einem Stipendium für den einjährigen Aufenthalt eines Künstlers in Berlin mit Unterkunft. Jährlich verleiht der DAAD auf Empfehlung einer Jury rund 20 Stipendien in den fünf Sparten Bildende Kunst, Film, Literatur, Musik und Tanz + Performance. Für Stipendiaten aus der Bildenden Kunst gehört zum Künstlerprogramm die Organisation einer Ausstellung in der DAAD-Galerie und die Erstellung eines Katalogs. Literatur-Stipendiaten treten in Lesungen auf. Seit 1964 waren rund 1000 Künstler im Rahmen des Berliner Künstlerprogramms des DAAD in Berlin zu Gast.[4]

In der Sparte Bildende Kunst erhielten von 1963 bis 2009 gut 370 Künstler ein DAAD-Stipendium im Berliner Künstlerprogramm. Dazu gehörten Jorge Castillo (Stipendiat 1969), Daniel Spoerri (1973), Joel Fisher (1973), Richard Hamilton (1974), Duane Hanson (1974), Christian Boltanski (1975), Lawrence Weiner (1975), On Kawara (1976), Jannis Kounellis (1980), Nam June Paik (1983), Erwin Wurm (1987), Ilja Kabakow (1989), Nan Goldin (1991), Marina Abramovi? (1992), Rachel Whiteread (1992), Damien Hirst (1993), Andrea Zittel (1995), Pipilotti Rist (1996), Allan Sekula (1997), Rineke Dijkstra (1998), Steve McQueen (1999), Mark Wallinger (2001) und Willem de Rooij (2006).[5] Die Stipendien für Bildende Kunst sind mittlerweile so begehrt, dass Initiativbewerbungen in dieser Sparte nicht angenommen werden, und stattdessen eine Kommission selbst Kandidaten sucht und vorschlägt. In allen anderen Sparten können sich Bewerber selbst vorschlagen.

Zwischen 1963 und 2009 wurden gut 310 DAAD-Stipendien der Sparte Literatur an Autoren vergeben. Dazu gehörten Ingeborg Bachmann (Stipendiatin 1963), Peter Handke (1968), Ernst Jandl (1970), George Tabori (1971), Lars Gustafsson (1972), Friederike Mayröcker (1973), Stanis?aw Lem (1977), György Konrád (1977), Margaret Atwood (1984), Gao Xingjian (1985), Carlos Fuentes (1988), Susan Sontag (1989), Cees Nooteboom (1989), António Lobo Antunes (1989), Harold Brodkey (1992), Wladimir Sorokin (1992), Imre Kertész (1993), Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski (1994), Richard Ford (1997), Jeffrey Eugenides (1999) und Raj Kamal Jha (2012).[5]

Knapp 270 Komponisten und Musiker erhielten bis 2009 ein DAAD-Stipendium der Sparte Musik, darunter Isang Yun (Stipendiat 1964), Krzysztof Penderecki (1968), György Ligeti (1969), Morton Feldman (1971) und John Cage (1972).[6]

International Choral Festival
43rd Seminar on New Choral Saturday 5th May 2012
Part 1
10.00 John.Fitzpatrick: Opening address
10.05 R.C. Introductions (Paul & choir, & Frank Corcoran)
10.15 NCC Performance of Two Unholy Haikus
10.20 Frank Corcoran on Two Unholy Haikus

Betreff: CMC interview WHO IS FRANK CORCORAN ?

I have transcribed the CMC-Interview. Please check it.

Betreff: CMC interview
I have transcribed the CMC-Interview. Please check it.

Certainly there are a few chamber-works waiting in the back drawer – waiting for
the light.
Maybe Tenorlieder, or a work for 2 Clarinets, pieces for Violin and Piano ( – this must in no way smack of culinary compromise, sweet cake or Kitsch ), a string quartet with double bass, an exciting work for ” Pierrot” quintet , a freshly baked Piano Trio ( with Viola ), the exquisite 8 IRISH DUETS for Cello and Piano and more.
They all await the light. Patiently. Also the huge MY ALTO RHAPSODIES with Full Orchestra.
No point in gnashing teeth at the times, paucity of chances, leadership, spondoolicks, understanding, readiness, curators or canon . No point. Tiocfaidh
a la. ‘Ar la. Their performance . Their epiphany. Meanwhile, the back drawer. Back-burner.