Frank Corcoran

It is not easy. Gets worse all the time.Take how I am currently finishing my Piccolo Quartetto Filarmonico ( using doublebass, cello, viola and violin ), trying to find – with the infinite patience of a good dentist with root-treatment – my “Grossform” , this one-movement’s overall form and the relations between the parts and each other and with the whole . One tiny wrong move and the delicate balance is gone….  the non-coordinated bits and the barred bits, smeared 4-voiced passages played as fast as possible against metric music, my work opening out or narrowing in on a focal tone (  –  yet, never neo-tonal ) or two. That is still my problem , to hear what I see on the hot summery manuscript paper, Don’t let up. No self or self-imitation ( cheap ) allowed.