Frank Corcoran

REMEMBER ME !

“Remember me ! ” that age/old cry, piteous, imperious, born out of terror ,

oblivion being our threat….

Remember me in tones, bronze, the name of a lousy street, a tomb as a clarinet concerto, what else ?

Motor of art, with death a motor of religion, that which binds us.

I chisel it in , write it on water, in

the sky, all

orchestral trumpets blazing.

Change the nib.

Begin a new composition.

Oblivion will lap. Of course it will. Stoics

and Epicureans and our Buddha and

all the Celtic saints of the Burren and great , bad, indifferent workers in,

well, all the arts,

will yell quietly those four syllables.

vbg R and M and B enclose just two vowels….

Not bad.

“Le sue note sono capaci d’evocare i paesaggi da sogno dell’Isola di Smeraldo, mondi arcaici che si sposano

a magiche epopee”, così alcuni critici hanno descritto la musica del compositore irlandese Frank Corcoran.

Dopo il successo dell’esibizione nel luglio dello scorso anno, il Maestro Corcoran torna al Ridotto del

Teatro Mancinelli di Orvieto per presentare un particolare evento dedicato alla musica classica irlandese e italiana.

In programma, sabato 14 luglio alle ore 21, “Il Concerto di Dublino”.

Adele Govier (prima viola della National Simphony Orchestra di Dublino) e il pianista R.T.E. Fergal Caulfield presentano un programma misto per viola e pianoforte con opere italiane e irlandesi, tra cui Puccini, Esposito e la prima dell’opera del Maestro Corcoran dal titolo “Hot Dialogues” per viola e pianoforte. Lo stesso Maestro Corcoran partecipa al concerto introducendo le opere e i musicisti, in questo appuntamento che si annuncia come imperdibile evento per gli amanti della musica classica.

Questo il programma della serata:

Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) “Nocturne” per Viola & Piano (1911)
Frank Corcoran “Hot Dialogues” (2017 – 3 Movements) prima esecuzione assoluta
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) “Foglio d’Album” (c.1910?)
Chris Corcoran “Deep Blue Windows” (2018) per Viola e Pianoforte – prima esecuzione assoluta

Luciano Berio “Wasserklavier” (1965) per Pianoforte Solo
Petr Eben (1929-2007) Fantasia sopra “Rorate Coeli” (1982) per Pianoforte Solo
Michele Esposito (1855-1929) “Tramonto ” per solo Piano, Op.61 No.3 (1912)
George Enescu(1881-1955) “Konzertstueck” per Viola e Pianoforte (1906)

2.2.2017 WGXC Radio : Frank Corcoran VIOLIN CONCERTO, QUASI UNA MISSA, TRAUERFELDER

2.3.2017 WGXC Radio : ” Cello Concerto and QUASI UNA FUGA

27.4.2017 Woodville Theatre, Gravesend, England. The Italian violinist virtuoso, Luigi De Filippi gives the English premiere of Frank Corcoran’s
SEVEN MINIATURES for Solo Violin.

IL CONCERTO DI DUBLINO – FRANK CORCORAN

27.5.2017 Irish Embassy Rome . PRATOLEVA TRIO plays

new contemporary Irish chamber music by Frank Corcoran plus Brahms, Geminiani etc. Premiere of Frank Corcoran’s new PIANO TRIO ( 2016 )

28.5.2017 Bolsena Piccolo Teatro Cavour ” ”

4.6. 2017 Dublin Hugh Lane City Gallery ” “( – plus RTE-LYRIC FM launch of new CD

“Rhapsodic Celli ” with Frank Corcoran’s CELLO CONCERTO , ” Rhapsodic Bowing” for 8 Celli etc. )

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From: Kaleidoscope Night
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Subject: Kaleidoscope Night -Pananorama -Wed 1st Nov 2017

Kaleidoscope – Pananorama –
Wed 1st Nov 2017
Doors at 8pm, music at 8.30pm €10-14 at Bello Bar.

Albeit just the 3rd concert in the 2017/2018 season, the Kaleidoscope series is already shouting about its second world premiere, would you believe? On this occasion, the new work, “Piccolo Quartetto Filarmonico”, is composed by the internationally renowned Tipperary-born composer Frank Corcoran and will be performed by the Robinson Panoramic Quartet. Kaleidoscope’s 2014 Ensemble in Residence, the Panoramic is a different kind of string quartet, comprising violin, viola, cello and double bass. Of the work, Corcoran says “the exciting drama of the musical mayhem, where the four voices are not exactly synchronized, pitted against the grave chordal liturgy, where they are….at the end, sweetness and light have the last say”.

Robinson Panoramic Quartet
MUSIC:

Frank Corcoran: “Piccolo Quartetto Filarmonico” (WORLD PREMIERE)
Performers: Robinson Panoramic Quartet

Yes, I think 1966;

I had read nothing of Stockhausen’s – often wrong – Webern analyses.

Nor did I know that Webern’s musical output was – for

that Boulez,-Goyvaerts (- who actually at the end, at his end, met me and played some Corcoran on Belgian

Radio; WHAT ? ) etc. the knees of the

compositional bee.

However I had read Stravinsky on Webern’s radical ” purity ” and I felt that his early few lonely works

before World War One –

with their fixation on his mother’s death, those high Austrian Alps and their mountain flowers, might help

my own stumble.

So I stumbled to Mittersill ( – train ? ) . I found his house, the big wide sweeping roof to deal with the

snow-storms.

Over the typical front door

were two wooden plaques with : ” Hertha Toepfer – Schneiderin ” and ” Anton Webern – Komponist “.

PRATOLEVA TRIO PLAYS FRANK CORCORAN

IN THREE IMPORTANT 2017 CONCERTS

Subject: Frank Corcoran HUGH LANE DUBLIN Concert on June 4. 2017

4 Duetti Irlandesi for Cello and Piano:

( Im Aonar Seal, Sean O Duibhir an Ghleanna , Roisin Dubh, A Mhairin De Barra , )

Piano Trio ( World Premiere )

Viola solo ( Var.s on ” A Mhairin de Barra ” )

Solo cello Rhapsodietta Joyceana

plus LYRIC-FM launches Frank Corcoran CD ” Rhapsodic Celli ”

( Programme as in Rome, Irish Embassy on May 27. and Bolsena Piccolo Teatro Cavour on May 28. )

Composer and harpist Anne-Marie O’Farrell talks about the programme for her recital on 31 May 2015

at the Drawing Room, 12 Henrietta Street.

The concert is presented by the AIC and includes works by John Kinsella, James Wilson, Brian Boydell, Mary
Kelly,

Frank Corcoran, Gráinne Mulvey, David Bremner, as well as Anne-Marie O’Farrell.

For interviews or further information contact: Eoin Brady – bradye@rte.ie/ 003561 207335
PRESS RELEASE
Rhapsodic Celli: The Music of Frank Corcoran
CD Release June 2017
Soloist Martin Johnson explores Frank Corcoran’s writing for cello in all its nuances, from the
swagger of a concerto and the rhapsodic polyphony of his work for eight cellos through to
composer’s arrangements of folk tunes for cello and piano informed by the rhythmic patois of the
Irish language.
Frank Corcoran has lived and taught in Germany for most of his professional life but has retained a
profound connection with the literature and traditional music of his native country. It is this distance
from and relationship with Ireland that informs so much of his music: directly, as in the case his short
Rhapsodietta Joyceana for solo cello and, more subtly, in the tensile interplay between soloist and
orchestra in his first Cello Concerto.
Nowhere is this sense of place more evident, however, than in Corcoran’s Duetti Irlandesi for Cello
and Piano which pay homage to the distant musical ancestor, the master harper Floirint Ó Corcorain.
These traditional melodies would originally have been played on the Irish harp and the Composer
says, “…have been haunting me since my rural childhood in Tipperary. I had long been appalled by
the settings of old Irish melodies attempted by Beethoven, Haydn, Britten, Harty and too many other
well-meaning composers: their often saccharine harmonies, their rhythmic iron corsets or indeed the
foursquare form too often adopted.” Instead, Corcoran has incorporated the freer sean nós or oldstyle
singing rhythms and grace notes into his classically informed settings of these tunes so they
become “… historical miniatures of my vanished Ireland.”
Rhapsodic Celli will be launched at The Hugh Lane Gallery Sundays@Noon concert, Parnell
Square North, Dublin 1 on 4th June.
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United States.

The Italian violinist virtuoso Luigi De Filippi

(from the Voces Intimae piano trio)

gives the English premiere of Frank Corcoran’s Seven Miniatures for Solo Violin.

Programme includes:

Works by Isaye, Bach
Corcoran Seven Miniatures for solo violin (premiere)

Venue
Woodville Theatre
Gravesend
Kent
United Kingdom
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Frank Corcoran
Frank Corcoran(b. 1944)

Frank Corcoran was born in Tipperary and studied in Dublin, Maynooth, Rome and Berlin (with Boris Blacher). He was the first Irish composer to have his ‘Symphony No.

MY 2010 HAIKU

Huge sorrowful eyes

Misted over as horses

Discuss damp sorrow ( F. C. 2010 PRATOLEVA )