Frank Corcoran

FRANK CORCORAN WINS BIG INTERNATIONAL CHORAL PRIZE 2013

Dear friend,

as participant of the ‘Second IFCM Composition Competition’ I would like to send
you, for free, a PDF copy of the last ICB issue that contains the final article
about the competition.

The ICB is published quarterly and it is sent to all the subscribers in hard
(paper) edition. I hope you like it as it contains a lot of interesting news
about choral music in the world. If you wish to become an IFCM member please
contact Nadine Robin at nrobin@ifcm.net.

In the meantime please enjoy the PDF edition that is possible to download from
the following address:
https://www.box.com/s/8hej5hxnzsq17ek9xp12

Best regards,
Andrea Angelini

ICB Managing Editor
IFCM Composition Competition Artistic Director
www.ifcm.net

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Poor Celan, Paul, took Ungharetti´s ” Mímmenso / Di gloria ” .
Paul Celan´s ” Leuchten im weit / Wie so weit ” .

Hmmm. A good shot . At that exploding, whole / wholing ( SORRY, poor, poor Father G.M.Hopkins ! ).

“Ungeheures / Macht mit Licht…. ”

” Ich erstrahle / Durch Unermessliches ” ( Ingeborg Bachmann )

annoys me , faughs the poor Italian Poeta, also poor Paul Celan …

It´s in all the oldest, high religions : God gobsmacks. What She might have dangled before a poor ascetic He can – in a monastery´s twinkle – pull away from under my thinning nose. eg. Take Benedictine rescue, my immortal soul, the bank – balance of all my toughest years . Right ? Frisky Deity ? Is the God of Farfa ” just ” ? ( i.e. according to my lights, our normal Western speculations, mankind´s settled ethic ? – No, Job was never in Farfa, no. )
So why sing the Gregorian Blues ? Three in the wintry morning , no steam on the Lazio Italy Abbey porridge ? A bi´ o´ asceticism never did any monk any harm; but THIS ? – Or its tougher Cistercian variant ?
Why ?

Croatian Radio broadcasts Frank Corcoran´s PIANO TRIO ( Zagreb Biennale 2013 ) with the Zagreb Piano Trio.

” An té nach bhfuil láidir, ní mhór do bheith glic ! ”

= ” If you are weak, you´d better be smart ! ” perhaps captures the Irish best. I don´t know; we lurch careening down the West Kerry hills , then sharp right. Over cooled white Kerry ( ? ) wine, we discuss X and Y and etc.

( Watch this space )

Ego ergo scribo bibens, bibo scribens. Si non sufficit? Ubi mater mea ? Ubi mater sancti Augustini? Quanta qualia sunt tristia ? Cur? Respondit Thagastinus: ” Bí bean ann fadó !” Si mundus merda sit, stercus sunt opera sancta Sancti merdae. Si fossa hortus meus, ego manduco excrementa mundi. Ergo ego sum excrementa mea priusquam erant! Ego sum aliquod quod erat priusquam natus sum! Ego sum priusquam sim. Quomodo? Si verum? Ergo bibemus?

Nunc nemo clamat telefoniter…. nemo concipit egoteitatem meam, nemo laudat symphonias. Verum autem quod existo felix, sobrius et vigilans et creator ” VARIATIONS ON MYSELF ” . Compono ergo sum? Sum ergo scribo? ( Nego majorem? Si Deus vult. Nego minorem. Si Deus dormit? ) Tu, Creator meus, cur Augustinus ? Niger calami nigri. Magnam lucem et magnam umbram reliquit super mores sexuales Europae.
Pes ( lavata ) sancti percussit tantas, tantos. Sufficit.

Write for thirteen strings / Overhead Lufthansa seeks /
And finds Rome airport.

Old grey Ford gleaming
In hot June Lazio sun
Aspens, asps quiver.

For the womb seed sighs !
Speed on, bonny Ford Fusion,
Greased gears, oily snout.

Gilgamesh dreams he´s
Driving his old banger Ford ,
Enkidu dying.