Frank Corcoran

In einer eMail vom 08.07.2011 17:28:55 Mitteleuropäische Zeit schreibt FBCorcoran@aol.com:

Irish Composer: CORCORAN Frank.

Age : 67 years . Ireland.

I participated in the IMEB Competition 1999. My ” SWEENEY´S VISION ” ( 1997 WDR Cologne

Commission ) was awarded a Premier Prix.

IMEB Competition was

EXCELLENTLY conceived and administered. It contributed GREATLY to my career as a composer !
It is a great shame that the French Ministry of Culture has chosen to withdraw vital support from IMEB and to force it to
close this July 2011….
IMEB was foremost in its field; it was a flag-ship for French musical culture and for
international electronic music in all its many facets.
Yes. A great shame for this great cultural nation. A great shame ! “Mor mo naire !”

NORTH/SOUTH CONSONANCE, INC. presents
MARCH MADNESS!

Premieres by Composers from Ireland and the US

FRANK CORCORAN Variations on Myself

BINNETTE LIPPER Ten-Able

JOYCE SOLOMON MOORMAN The Snow Storm

WILLIAM PFAFF The Road is All

Binnette Lipper Joyce Solomon Moorman
Frank Corcoran Harry Bulow William Pfaff

Max Lifchitz, conductor
The North/South Chamber Orchestra

Tuesday, March 12 at 8 PM
Christ & St. Stephen’s Church
120 West 69th Street, NYC
(between Broadway & Columbus)
Free Admission

www.northsouthmusic.org
33rd Season (1980-2013)

Dear Mr Corcoran

Many thanks for your permission. I have the necessary CDs which I have been listening to for some time.

My dissertation is entitled ‘The Portrayal of Early Irish Saga-Literature in Post-War Compositions’ with the final chapter devoted to your Mad Sweeney series.

Frank Corcoran BOOK – Here’s the rough outline of a Plan :

Das Buch über Frank Corcoran zu seinem 70. Geburtstag soll eine Hommage von Freunden und zugleich ein möglichst viele Facetten umfassendes Porträt des Komponisten und Autors sein.

I. Biographische Skizze

II. Autobiographische Reflexionen
Frank Corcoran: “It’s A Cold Wind Blows On An Irish Composer” (Kunstmusik, Frühjahr 2005)

Frank Corcoran: “A Composer Ruminates About His Art” (Manuskript)

Frank Corcoran: “Looking Back And Looking Forward” (New Music News, May 2004, CMC Dublin)

Roger Doyle: “Frank Corcoran on Being A Composer in Dublin” (Interview, source?, 19??

II. Die Musik von Frank Corcoran im irisch-europäischen Kontext

a) allgemeine Werkkommentare von

Michael Dervan “A Very Worried Man” (Irish Times 1995)
Dr. Lutz Lesle (Komponistenporträt, DLF – Atelier Neuer Musik 1995 / 96?)
Dr. Lutz Lesle (“Seelenlandschaft einer Insel”, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 4 / 2002)
Hans-Dieter Grünefeld (Komponistenporträt, “Substanzen für die Zukunft”, Music Manual 1 / 2002)
Hans-Dieter Grünefeld (“Simplex” – Interview, Ensemble – Magazin für Kammermusik 4 / 2011)

b) exemplarische Werkkommentare

Axel Klein: Klaviertrio (in: Axel Klein: Die Musik Irlands im 20. Jahrhundert)

Frank Corcoran: “Do Dolmen’s Lament?” (The Journal of Music in Ireland, 11-12 / 2001)

Frank Corcoran: “My Music Is A Four Letter Word – Ceol” (The Journal of Music in Irleand, 3-4 / 2001

Hans-Dieter Grünefeld: “Quasi Una Visione” (Interview, Music Manual Sommer 2005)

Rezensionen zu: Symphonien 1-4, Mad Sweeny u.a.

III. Gedichte von

James Liddy (To Frank Corcoran u.a.)

Gabriel Rosenstock

IV. Persönliche Hommages (alle Originaltexte) von

Klaus Schöning ( Ars Acustica WDR ), Prof. Tony De Ritis ( Composer , Northeastern University Chicago ), Niksa
Gligo ( Musicologist ; Zagreb Univ., langjähriger Leiter der Zagreb Biennale ) , Georg Hajdu ( Prof. Hamburg , Computer Composer ), Hans-Heinrich Raab ( NDR ),
Gabriel Rosenstock ( irischer Dichter, Akademiemitglied ), Ulrich Leyendecker ( Prof. , Mannheim , Composer ), Ben dwyer ( Irish composer, Prof. at Middlesex University London, Colman Pearce ( Dirigent Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra – er dirigierte mehrere früheren Corcoran-Werke ), Guido Zaccagnini ( RAI Musica und Prof., Santa Cecilia, Roma ) , Eddy Clift ( Dean of Visual Studies , Westbury University USA ).

V. Frank Corcoran als Autor
a) Original Haikus
b) mindestens ein Rundfunkmanuskript mit einer Analyse eines Werkes von Schubert o.a.

VI. Miszellen (Repros)

a) Programmzettel und Konzertplakate
b) Preisurkunde
c) Postkarte von Seamus Heaney
d) Brief von Frank Corcoran (als Jugendlicher) an seine Mutter
e) Partiturseiten (von “Haikus” u.a.)
f) Studentenausweis
g) Porträt-Fotos

Anhang

Biographische Zeittafel

Liste der Kompositionen
(chronologisch mit Premierendaten und Auszeichnungen)

Diskographie
(chronologisch, LPs, Sampler und CDs, evt. mit Abbildungen der Cover)

SIX HAIKUS

1. Five dogs – or seven –
Snarl in the cold morning air:
Barking: ” Kill the Spring!”

2. First light; wintry hope. 3. Who goes there? / Summer!
Frozen iron, hoe and spade. My pen scrawls on white paper.
Another day dawns. Soft horns! Clarinets.

4. Bits of sticky sleep 5. Suppose God is light?
My eye tries to see itself A mountain´s shadow purple?
Evening birds chitter “Ciúnas, a h-anaim!”

6. Sunset, ” tramonto”,
Tiptoes through this, our window.
Well, is this then death?

FRANK CORCORAN : Irish composer, living in Hamburg and Italy. Member of Aosdana. Studied in Dublin,
Maynooth, Berlin, Rome. 1980 – 1981 Berlin Ártists Fellowship. 1989 – 90 Fulbright Professor in the U.S.A.
Many composer-prizes, distinctions and commissions, including
2012 Cork International Choral Festival Seán ´O Riada Prize . Works performed and broadcast in Europe, N. American, Australia. See www.frankcorcoran.com also for discography and work-list. Among newest works : 2013 CELLO CONCERTO. 2012 VIOLIN CONCERTO ( NSO / Alan Smale/ Christopher Warren-Green ). EIGHT HAIKUS ( Manila University Choir ) . 2011 SONGS OF TERROR AND LOVE ( New York NORTHSOUTH ), 2010 9 ASPECTS OF AN IRISH POEM ( North German Radio Choir ), 2009 QUASI UNA FUGA ( Irish Chamber Orchestra ), 2008 QUASI UN CANTO ( Zagreb Philharmonic ) . etc. etc.

Buildings of note

Whilst there are other buildings of architectural interest in and around Borrisokane, the following are featured in ‘An Introduction To The Architectural Heritage Of North Tipperary’ [29] and on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage website [30]

Semi-detached houses with integral arch, Main Street (c. 1800): Pair of semi-detached three-storey houses with integral carriage arch.
Water Mill, Mill Street (c. 1810): Two four storey blocks. (Demolished 30 April 2010[10])
Church of Ireland church, Main St. (1812) Single-cell Board of First Fruits church.
Former miller’s house, Mill Street (c. 1815): Three bay two-storey house attached to mill.
Kylepark Agricultural School, Kyletombrickane (c. 1843): An agricultural school founded on his estate at Kyle Park, Borrisokane by Thomas George Stoney[31]
The Terrace, Nenagh Rd. (c. 1815) Two pairs of semi-detached houses and a detached house, two storey over basement with outbuildings and yards. Listed as protected structures by Tipperary County Council (RPS Refs S425 to S429).[32]
Old Church Centre, Mill Street (1839): Cruciform plan gable fronted former church.
Borrisokane Courthouse and College (c. 1850): Former Workhouse and courtyards.
Methodist Chapel, Main Street (1868): Gable fronted single cell church.
David Clarke Hall, Mill Street (c. 1930): Gable-fronted memorial hall. Briefly converted to the Stella cinema during the 1950s and 1960s.[33]

Notable people

Frank Corcoran, Irish composer, born and lived at Killavalla House

The Goethe-Institut Choir comprises a refreshing mix of singers of all ages and many nationalities. Founded in 1965 at the request of the then Director of the Goethe-Institut Dublin, the choir was privileged to have Cáit Cooper as musical director until her death in June 1998.

Since then, with renowned conductor John Dexter at the helm, the choir has continued to live up to its high reputation and play a vital and vibrant role in the cultural life of Dublin. The Choir performs at least three concerts per year, including the very popular Christmas Concert in the National Concert Hall, Dublin. The performance schedule also includes annual concerts performed in spring and summer, in addition to special events such as the St. Cecilia Orchestra’s Bach Cantata Series or the Carmichael Centre’s Good Friday concert held in the magnificent and historic St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin.

Since the choir’s foundation, programmes have featured the music of a wide range of composers including Vittoria, Schütz, Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven, Bruckner, Haydn and Britten. A significant feature of performances has been the inclusion of the work of Irish composers, including Brian Boydell, Seoirse Bodley, Frank Corcoran .

FRANK CORCORAN JOYCEAN AESTHETICS COLONIALISATION
( – The Wild Colonial Boy indeed…. )

They just went live with the essay on Colony…SEE: http://www.colony.ie/#!joyceanaesthetics/csdx

Text, audio, manuscripts and photos…..I think it looks, sounds and reads

well….this is a very hip journal and everyone on Dublin in reading this right

now……!!!!!!

Access through CHROME…..NOT Safari

Very gladly I reprint here below my 2006 little vignette. Good work well written. Courageous prose.
Polyphonic associations, too; the words spin out.
Like well-wrought music. It was just before I composed ” QUASI UNA FUGA” for 18 Strings. Benfatta, indeed.

In einer eMail vom 16.01.2006 22:15:09 Westeuropãische Normalzeit schreibt FBCorcoran:

My heart is white. Croí Bán. Them Corbianco cows will be my medal, my matins.
They’re now lowing that our garden is ‘‘classical’’?
Serpents keep insisting, though, on the ‘‘Romantic’’ character of red-ochre-peperino play, a higher symmetry resulting from the play of the up-close
drunken trip-up on a magic garden’s railway-sleeper or a stopped Georgic sewer with,
say, my Croí Bianco’s Stent blanching at the death of music since Verdi’s letter to
Giulio Ricordi.

I did try to couple stippled (- why ‘‘stippled’’?) madness with the
non-raving, wavy line.

Keep to things of the white heart. Even before we get into Trakl’s
‘‘Die ungebornen Enkel,’’ ‘‘Clann clainne nár rugadh,’’ your and yere and ours.

Mine is bluish, a purple ventricle about its proper business in North
Lazio’s cow-world. Neither Narcissos nor Hiakinthos is what’s comin’ through on
the Corbianco cows’ internet this tender – is- indeed – the- blue-black
Montefiascone night, not a Grodeck in sight.

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