Frank Corcoran

FINIS

Remember, surfer, thou are dust, it is the blight. ( Is that it ? ) Draw round. Since I´ve been sick in this head for so long I don´t see really, actually an overamount of inducement now. No. ( Yes. She delivered this, film over eyes, no inverted commas )
Then there was the day they caught the long telephoning with nobody at the other end. Terror is a little furry animal. Trap the scream, grist for your musical art. As from a vast distant, the eyes. Cold. ” Someone come up and lift me.” I´d locked up the meat-carver. Let this chalice never pass. Stand by me now, O great self-love. Bridges burned, down the long road….
Her scream roared, ranted, her rocking ululation, that catatonic wail a chthonic keen. Caoine. Art comes from plumbing. Twenty seven years . Molten lava, lads, bottle her good …. ( I had to employ a food-taster. – Had to. ) Well, the eyes´ cold filmed fear had to snap. Actually. The terminal sprawl as her electrolytes just snapped like that. Furry, foetid, fetid finis.

FINISH THIS:

Draw around.If I catch ye again trying to commit me. ( How´d I ever get off the Titanic bridge ? ) Nowadays I tend to sleep with home-spun noose. Sure now?

It was in fifty four, early morning already very hot, our parent´s harnessed horses frisky to go, still quite still hay-knife in its mowing-machine oiled, sheathed, cleanly cut two rabbit´s legs, then that unfortunate nesting instinct of our corncrakes. Far in the future lay her scream, dormant in my June: how the, her eyes were filmed over. That June
month fused the bread-knife, the clean legs, a child´s bliss, my hay smell now in these virtual lines. If you believe this, you´ll believe anything, no little sir. Wash her strait-jacket; hang out to dry in the summer sun. Stop your inner scream or you´ll get a great slap ! Right here and now ! Mind this urn.

Dear, dear Frank Corcoran ,

Well, it was a famous victory, the musicians fab in my world-premieres ( CLARINET QUINTET and A DARK SONG ), phrasing and tempi and shaping and driving and sarkly singing and dancing and birthing in Dublin. I was delighted. The composer calves.

Meet The Composer! Frank Corcoran, November 25
This is a unique opportunity to learn more about the art of composing as Frank is also interviewed by the equally eminent Kevin O’Connell as part of a special composition mini-festival in association with the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

Join the Quartet, Frank and Fintan in the Katherine Brennan Hall at 2.30-3.30pm for an open rehearsal of both works – Clarinet Quintet and A Dark Song – a real rarity scored for solo bass clarinet. Both works will be workshopped and given their world premiere performances at 4.30-6pm and Kevin’s interview with Frank is not to be missed!

This special event will be recorded for RTÉ lyric fm Nova programme and filmed for TG4’s arts series Imeall. Admission FREE

News & EventsMeet The Composer! Frank Corcoran, November 25
The RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet with guest clarinetist Fintan Sutton will workshop and premiere two new works by eminent Irish composer Frank Corcoran on the afternoon of November 25 in the RIAM, Westland Row.

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To : JAMIE DETTMER

Jamie, if you do get to starting the garden well-pump ( of course you will ) , it supplies water also for the tap below in the Orto where we have planted new beans , tomatoes et alias plantas plantarum…
These , too, would be most grateful for a slosh, a gargle , a shot of water, a wee drop.

As will I. F.

I prepare , sow-like ( our mother had twelve , free-roving – plus their pink banbheens , over one hundred in their number ) my place of birth; yes, there are real musicians, bowing, blowing divinely, searing, searingly, deliver…. my new CLARINET QUINTET and my new Bass Clarinet Solo, ” A DARK SONG”.

New premieres by Frank Corcoran will be performed in a workshop of his music on 25 November 2011

Frank Corcoran
The event, Meet the Composer!, is a partnership between RTÉ and the Royal Irish Academy of Music and features the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet and clarinetist Fintan Sutton performing two works – Clarinet Quintet and A Dark Song – by the Hamburg-based Irish composer.

Frank Corcoran’s Clarinet Quintet was commissioned by RTÉ for Fintan Sutton and the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet. The composer writes of the work:

‘RTE approached me in 2009 to compose a new work for the RTÉ Vanbrugh String Quartet and Fintan Sutton? I immediately thought of Vienna in September 1787 and Mozart´s Clarinet Quintet – these infinitely artful asymmetries. My three movements will marry the chalumeau sheen of husk and husky clarinet / bass clarinet with the masked sheen of the string quartet.’

A Dark Song is a solo bass clarinet work written this year for Fintan Sutton. With a nod to Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski, Corcoran describes the piece as being born, ‘out of the first five notes of Lutoslawski’s Mi-Parti.’

Both works will be workshopped and premiered in the Katherine Brennan Hall at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, on 25 November from 4.30pm, and the afternoon will also include contributions from the composer. Admission to the event is free.

Was it flight ? South up to North ? Now my Dublin visit imminent ? Yes. Flight from olives and streaked sky up to shadows, up to a colder dawn, a subtler feeling I have to chase meaning, pilot purpose, poised flight on to the next toe-step. Early riser, be silent but, and, write it down. ( I must not write it out in a verse. No. But see the beauty of the cold morning, the split consciousness in the warm cup of tea. )Up we go. Easy, pilot of this thought. Aisy. When will we arrive? Where? Thoughts are free. Still.