Frank Corcoran

( = Irish for : ” A New Year ? Well, yes and no… ” )
I got past the Monstrous Midnight Din , callow youths and alcoholized louts lobbing fireworks or apocalyptically exploding bottles at the only pair of eyes I happen to possess. Good Lite Fun. Great unwashed myth !
Yes, 2012 is ( was ) both abstraction and reality ( i.e. I “composed” it myself … ) . The Alan Smale / National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland / Christopher Warren-Green Dublin premiere of my VIOLIN CONCERTO was the most important cultural thing which happened on the Irish Island.
Ditto for my New Year 2013 ( the empty page falls open; fill the ink-well, please and spare not the quill ) . The March 12 premiere of my new VARIATIONS ON MYSELF for
Chamber Orchestra will be important. Why?