Frank Corcoran

irish composer

MORE ELECTRIC STORMS

NIGHT HAIKUS :

Also this music / Two fierce crows work fast – sharp beaks…. / The cat´s blood congeals.

Now it is evening / They dive down darkly, two beaks /
Flay our young cat´s eyes.

She did not hear them. / Hacking her eyes horribly /
Flying surgeons gouged.

Now gentle evening.
Birds slash, tear, slice our kitten.
Kinetic life dead.

ELECTRIC HAIKUS

A haiku has no / Plural . Bite that hot pencil. / Here mine is
born thus .

My mind is empty. / All electric clouds also / Please give me a
match….

July heat roaring / Hang on to your molten brain / Still !
Ciccadas, still !

An onion is a / Perfect image of my ” self” / Peel the layers
off

This last haiku now : Tomorrow´s temperatures Can´t ruin tonight

THE LAZIO NINETIES ROARING NOW . SWEAT !

Let us separate the men from the boys, risk-taking, courageous ( – Yes, in my newest New Leap – for 13 Strings, – ” I am sick with worry !” ) excellence from the safe, cowardly, the second-rate take-it-easy. Hand me down !
I reach for the composers´ stars. Extend the boundaries of poor Debussy´s ” musically thinkable ! ”
In each new musical salto mortale….
Only that can interest me.
Th trivial remains trivial.

QUASI UN FILM , I SUPPOSE

It´s the race, desperate or more calm, to remember, to record my receding past; to etch something on the grey tombstone before it´s gone; fix at least something from shaky memor, my memories . Slap it down.( We have been at this a long time now.) But also to attempt a description of the conception, gestation, licking into final shape of an important work I composed in, say, 1977. How rein in mythopoetic ” I remember” ? Which initial gesture, texture, synaesthetic bundle of sensations accompanying an initial rhythm, motif or cell? How? As the spool winds backwards ?
If my recent music is busy remembering earlier composed works ( whether it suits me or not, it is ! ) , music about music, and if my earliest composed music was ( – okay, mostly unconsciously ) “remembering” things past, surely my work on memory this very today is a highly compound re-working of ( all ? some ? ) my lived and thought sense-data ( tasted, smelled, ingorged, expectorated, etc. ). Devilishly tricky, you´d imagine.

How , in God, will I ? – Bundle and forge to my smithie will

my eight violins, two violas, my two celli and one bass ?

For 2015 NEW YORK CITY ?

For : FRANK CORCORAN: ” Quasi Una Storia” for 13 strings….

NEW WORK END OF JUNE

Apparently angels are out; pin-tips are in. Oh it´s often enough I´ve put the cart before the dogs.
Now I brood over, carpenter, strain at stool, knead my 13 strings – 8 violins en masse or tutti or singly , tiny Guarnieri skeins and threads; two each of celli and violas; one doublebass is mighty, tender as the night, explosive.
( I composed QUASI UN CONCERTO thirty years ago ; my IRISCHE MIKROKOSMOI for String Orchestra was a fun-thing for the Irish Chamber Orchestra; then QUASI UNA FUGA, written for the 2007 Shannon Festival , became my salute to monothematicism, to counterpoint and counterpunch… This new QUASI UNA STORY for New York 2015 will be very, very different. )
Brood on.

ROARING HEAT IN LAZIO HURRAY !

FRANK CORCORAN WINS BIG INTERNATIONAL CHORAL PRIZE 2013

Dear friend,

as participant of the ‘Second IFCM Composition Competition’ I would like to send
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Best regards,
Andrea Angelini

ICB Managing Editor
IFCM Composition Competition Artistic Director
www.ifcm.net

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