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Frank CorcoranIrish Composer |
22 February 2009 North German Radio Choir in das neue werk Festival: German premiere of Frank
Corcoran´s ” 9 ASPECTS OF AN IRISH POEM” for Violin and Large Choir.
23 August 2008 Futura Festival, Crest, France : French premiere of ” QUASI UNA MISSA” ( 1999
W.D.R. commission. 2002 Swedish E.M.S. Prize ) .
Dec. 8 2008 Meridian Festival, Bukarest : Basso Moderno premieres my new “Quasi Una Perla”. Thus:
A last alone the
Long day writhing into night
Moon-shine is my love
René Magritte was
Off on his French hobby-horse:
“I am NOT my pipe!”
Age-old Greek river,
Was unwashed Heraklitus
Ever smelled again?
In 1987 I pared the quill and wrote: ” Two Hardy Referentialists And The Debate On Expression In
Music”. ( International Review Of The Aesthetics And Sociology Of Music IRASM 18, 2, 237 – 245 )
In this bee-loud glade
My nine and fifty plum-trees
They and I blooming
Ora è buio Jetzt ist es Zwielicht
Sulle isole pini Sie sind wie Faust und Fäustchen
Pugno e pugno Pinieninsel
May 18. R.A.I. Tre / Cultura: Frank Corcoran´s 3. String Quartet ( Caleno Quartet )
August 23 , a Saturday, at 11.30 a.m. , at the Futura Festival Paris, Frank Corcoran´s
“Quasi Una Missa” ( 1999 W.D.R. commission ; 2002 Swedish E.M.S. Prize )
May 7. Lyric Fm broadcasts my ” QUASI UNA FUGA” with the Irish Chamber Orchestra/ Anthony
Marwood.
May 10. for Johannes Brahms 175th. birthday , North German Radio commissions Frank Corcoran two
hours radiophonic analysis of Brahms´ Fourth Symphony.
May 10. NDR broadcasts my Fourth Symphony ( National Symphony Orchestra / Colman Pearce ) .
May 10. I complete new ” QUASI UNA PERLA” for the Washington-based Basso Moderno ( piano and
double-bass ) .
My silver syringe
Sucks out dark blood for vipers
Poison for poison
In the high temple
Hunger for tea-cake, flowers,
Mountain marmalade
Up on one long leg
Long Mary sights her own beak
Water reflected
In its Milky Way
Glides and flexes and ripples
Our Solar System
Season of mellow
Yellow fruit; ripeness is all
Too tired to die
Their great flaps empty
The whirring wings are circling
Empty this goose gyre
Tawny-Beaujolais
Autumn´s light a bit burnished
The grass a bit burned
I stirred not before
That entire rice-field was sown
A willow witnessed
Will not one singing
Beetle or bee make him blush ?
Poor Palestrina
April 19 2008 Hüllm Cultural Centre
David Stromberg plays” Ice-Etchings” for solo cello.
July 1 2008 The Warehouse, London
Fidelio Trio gives the first London performance of my seventies” Break-Through” Piano Trio (1978 )
March 17 2008 Dutch Radio ” Mad Sweeney´s Shadow” Frank Corcoran Portrait including:
QUASI UNA MIUSSA , PIANO TRIO , 5 ROSENSTOCKLIEDER , 3. WIND-QUINTET ,
SWEENEY´S FAREWELL.
April 27 2008 Concorde Ensemble ( Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin ) ” THE LIGHT GLEAMS .
May 10 ” ( Cerkin Castle, Llubjana ) ” “