Frank Corcoran geb. 1944 in Tipperary Irland. Studierte in Dublin (alte Sprachen, Philosophie), Rom (Theologie , Gregorianik und Renaissance-Musik) und Berlin (Meisterschüler von Boris Blacher). 1971-79 Music Inspector beim Irischen Erziehungsministerium. 1980 Stipendiat des Berliner Künstlerprogramms . 1981 Gastprofessor an der HdK Berlin. 1982 Professor in Stuttgart, seit 1983 an der Hamburger Musikhochschule. 1989-90 Fulbright-Professor in den USA und Gastdozent in CalArts, Harvard, Wisconsin, Boston, New York und Indiana. Seit 1983 ist Frank Corcoran Mitglied der Irischen AdK.
Balthasars Traum 1980
Sweeney’s Vision 1997
Sweeney’s letztes Gedicht, Sweeney’s Farewell 1997/98
Tradurre – Tradire 2004
IRISH HERITAGE LONDON 1975 – 2005
Professor Frank Corcoran:
” The Dolmen´s Lament”
KULTURINFORMATION
Haikus in der Kathedrale: Frank Corcoran erhält den Seán Ó Riada Preis 2012
(nmz) – Ein substanzielles Sujet für zeitgenössische Chormusik zu finden, erfordert ein Sensorium für Stimmen und stimmhafte Befindlichkeiten. Zumal in sakraler Umgebung, zumal im katholisch, aber eben auch keltisch geprägten Irland. Da findet Musik manchmal in musikalischen Zwischenwelten statt. So beim Cork International Choral Festival mit dem Seán Ò Riada Composition Competition.
02.05.2012 – Von Hans-Dieter Grünefeld
” HER DAPPLE IS AT AN END! ” Gerard Manly Hopkins
Take your choice:
CORCORAN´S CRAZY LIST OF TEN WORKS ( in no apparent order… ) :
1. Quasi Una Missa. Electronic . WDR commission 1999. Won that 2002 Swedish EMS Prize… Uses over 2000 years of Irish God-texts … on CD
2. Music for the book of Kells . 5 Percussion and Irish Pianist. 1990 U.S.A. U W M commission. CD
3. ” Quasi Una Sarabande ” for 8 instruments. Swiss “Antipodes” commission for Basle, Zürich, Berne . 2009. Swiss Radio recording. CD
4. Clarinet Quintet. 2011 RTE commission. Vanbrugh CD
5. ” Variations On Myself” New York North / South commission , Max Lifchitz cond., ( chamber orchestra ) for 2013 March 14 premiere.
6. ” Trauerfelder ” for 5 percussion ( you know this ) – 50 years of liberation ( Is there a ? ) from Auschwitz . Hamburg Kultursenatorin.
7. ” Quasi Una Fuga” for 18 Strings. Irish Chamber Orchestra / Anthony Marwood. 1997 Shannon Festival, Limerick Cathedral premiere rec.
8. “Eight Haikus” for Choir SS AA TT BB to texts by Frank Corcoran. Won the 2013 International Federation for Choral Music First Prize Outright.
( premiere Oct. 5 2013 by Manila Madrigal Singers / Mark Anthony Carpio )
9. VIOLIN CONCERTO ( N.S.O. / Christopher Warren-Green / Alan Smale ) Dublin RTE 2.11.2012 rec. )
10. PIANO TRIO ( 1976 Sender Freies Berlin premiere / Concorde – almost 40 years later , my 12.3.2013 Zagreb Biennale MIGHTY Croation
triumphant CD )
MY NIGHT-BIRDS ARE CRUEL
I brood. Try to bear. Attempt the birth of this, my new Corcoran composition for 13 strings.
Four first ( – why ” first ” ) violins, four second violins, only two stalwart violas, two celli and
one bass. Good, solve the first things, my little Corcoran ´s Row and its derivative
trellis-work. My polyphony. Great and tiny , slippery or noble intervals.
Stringy colours,,, chalemeux , toffee, ice-cream of yoghurt, nuts, Mushrooms of Paradiso.
METAPHYSICAL HORROR Re-read !
It´s only human to want to twist that cock´s cock well before Aurora sneaks up on this day dawning.
Bits of sticky sleep – my eye tries to see itself ! ( Which tones to organize on this, my bright day ? )
Five dogs or seven snarl in the cold evening air ! ( Which´ll I strangle first ? ) No, I´m eternally unsatisfied with my violin bowings. Apparently I am ” I ” ; but yesterday ? Tomorrow?
Pink is now reddening – apparently there is a world out there , dogs, loud cock-a-doodle-do about little. Go back to sleep ? Out and fine-tune the string-bowings ?
Morning birds chitter.
TIME JOSTLES ON
2003 Radio Berlin Brandenburg MUSIK DER GEGENWART
Radiophonic Portrait FRANK CORCORAN
2011 Bayerischer Rundfunk IRLAND ABEND
Frank Corcoran´s VARIATIONS ON “A MHÁIRÍN DE BARRA”
In the late nineties I turned to ” internationale Radiokunst” . Th 1997 WDR commission ” SWEENEY´S VISION ”
won the 1999 Bourges Festival premier Prix. That same year WDR commissioned ” QUASI UNA MISSA” which won the 2002 Swedish EMS Prize. In that same year, then, Deutschland Radio commissioned ” TRADURRE TRADIRE “.
But my first experience of working with splicing fingers bloody and cut tapes was in the now fas year of 1980 in West Berlin when I composed ” BALTHAZAR´S DREAM ” at the Electronic Studios of the Technical University.
Pleased ? Certainly. ( Nowadays of course market forces and “liberalized” programme-shaping and the further mcdonaldisation of ” sound culure” , yeah, of very radio listening have successfully killed all that. Today it´s listening for dummies. Pleased ?
Weserburg – Museum für moderne Kunst | Bremen
Ausstellung des Studienzentrums für Künstlerpublikationen (bis 24. Februar)
Kunstradio – Radiokunst ist mehr als eine wöchentliche Sendung auf Österreich 1, die am 3. Dezember 1987 erstmals “on air” ging. Im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit des Kunstradios steht die Zusammenarbeit mit internationalen Künstlern. In 25 Jahren konnte über 1.000 Künstlern weltweit der Zugang zu den vielfältigen Produktions-, Kommunikations- und Distributionsmöglichkeiten einer nationalen Rundfunkanstalt ermöglicht werden. Radiokunst bewegt sich in einem künstlerisch interdisziplinären Zwischenbereich der bildenden Kunst, der experimentellen Literatur und der Neuen Musik. Dementsprechend wird die Radiokunst in der Ausstellung in ihren visuellen, auditiven und dokumentarischen Kontexten dargestellt.
MAY MURDEROUS BEFORE SAHARA JUNE
My lawn-mower loves me. The spirit runneth free today as the motor
belches, leaving my summery Geist blithe and free to contemplate – yes, ambulando – the same questions all over again … eg.
Successful ( Musical Form ) versus Successful Composer ;
Orchestral Sheen , what is it ? The 20th. Century´s Failure With Rhythm ; How Not To Repeat Myself; How To Keep This Lawn-mower Going; Who Are They, The Blockers, The Blockheads, Rocks , Eejits ? Mow, mow, mow the grass / Gently down de lawn / Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Lif is just long-drawn.
FROM IRISH POET GABRIEL ROSENSTOCK
Outstanding Irish composer Frank Corcoran talking to my son, Tristan. Among other things, he mentions pigs as an influence …pigs had the whole scale, from the highest picolo to the lowest tuba!