Frank Corcoran

Irish Composer

AND THE CHRISTMAS GEESE ARE GETTING FAT

How compose cold music ? ( Yes, yes, I know: well-tried high string harmonics, let´s say, punctuated and,well, well- rubbed by pianissimo stopped horn number one and then your sawed on or off marimba; or is it these metallophones? Washed, say, in water of the frightful temperatures which this nighte an´awle is now offering me here in my High Freezing Eyrie ? What IS, then, cold music ? Well, what could comic music possibly be ? What is it which sonically defines light- or arse-heavy, heaving music? Porous musical texture? Gripping musical narrative and sailing-to-Bizantium note-after-note ?

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