Frank Corcoran and Choral Music :
As a child I´d listen. Sing. Hear it deep inside. I. Sing de body etc. is certainly right. Overnight it was my thirtieth birthday to Heaven . 1974 May 1. was extraordinary ; the sun shone on all schizophrenics. I
did, certainly, compose my MEDIEVAL IRISH EPIGRAMMES for Dr. Hans Waldemar Rosen the great Leipzig Bach choral tradition , and the Radio ´Eireann Singers . Frank O´Connor´s window onto Early Irish heroic Iron Age chivalry. Sensationally. Yes, I found the German Thirty Years War. Yes, I did set ” Herr Jesu Christ !>” to texts by Paul Fleming. The Thirty Years War in Germany. Other vocal works included the RTE commission, ” FAREWELL SYMPHONIES” for Tape and Orchestra ( it went to the International Composer´s Rostrum 1982 ), also my John Barth : ” TWO MEDITATIONS ” for Speaker and Orchestra
( 1974 ) and the Sender Freies Berlin comission, ” CÚIG AMHRÁIN DE CHUID GHABRIEL ROSENSTOCK ” of 1979. Twenty years later I set Seamus Heaney´s ” MAD SWEENEY / BUILE SHUIBHNE ” for Speaker and Chamber Orchestra( 1996 ). Now in 2009 it´s ” ” SONGS OF TERROR AND LOVE” ( to texts by Jacopone da Todi ) for Bass Voice and ” Pierrot ” Ensemble line-up. In January 19 2010, the National Symphony Orchestra / Colman Pearce with Naomi O´Connell will premiere ” FOUR ORCHESTRAL PRAYERS” for Mezzosoprano and Orchestra. And : “EIGHT HAIKUS ” to texts by Frank Corcoran for Choir S.S.A.A.T.T.B.B.
Yes, sing e body. By the way, where are the Corcoran Lieder ?