Frank Corcoran

Irish Composer

2016 dotty Irish Gas / RTE ” Composing The Island ” Festival. Yes, dotty !

Irish Times, Michael Dervan :

” Yet the tradition of music it salutes has long had in Ireland a Cinderella-like position, an invisibility

that can sometimes seem like the airbrushing or photoshopping into non-existence of a major art form.

Composers have felt the slight acutely.

‘I’m a Composer’—‘You’re a What?’ was the title Frank Corcoran gave an essay he contributed to The Crane Bag

back in 1982. It was his way of explaining that Irish people simply didn’t see being a composer as a serious

or full-time occupation.

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