Frank Corcoran

Frank Corcoran´s new choral work
EIGHT HAIKUS ( for S S A A T T B B ) , texts by Frank Corcoran,
has been awarded First Prize in the
2013 International Federation Of Choral Music Competition .

FROM THE ARCHIVES : THEM WUZ THE DAYS :
The RTÉ Symphony Orchestra led by Audrey Park and conducted by Janos Furst, perform two works by Irish composers. Part of the European Broadcasting Union 20th Anniversary Concert Season broadcast live from the National Concert Hall. Soprano Suzanne Murphy joins the orchestra to perform Harty’s Children of Lir.Frank Corcoran: Symphonies of Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Hamilton Harty: The Children of Lir

Programme ID:
AR0133956

Programme Title:
EBU CONCERT DUBLIN
Prog. No.:
1

Duration:
54.00

First Transmission:
Nov 09 1987 00.00.00

D 1940

The Hound of Culann / No mean daw with a sliotar / Also died of love

To Ulster travel
Describe how Ferdia fell
Kissed , killed by his friend

March 12 . 2013 New York Premiere of my ” VARIATIONS ON MYSELF” ( North South Consonance Chamber Orchestra ) draws near. Five wind with my macro-counterpoint ; five strings grid the temporal flow. Exciting, this magical birth ? Whew !

Apart from his Nobel Swedishisms, the EMS Director defined :
“With an open mind the composer uncovers a concrete and traditional image and linguistic material and he places this maybe-higher-power in the middle of an Irish stew.”

Be still, bí cúramach, my composing soul.
Masks and clever posturings tonight removed, the naked fact is:
Vast sonic sludge filthsglobally. Globally it cheapens my listening, my normal human thrust towards understanding any music – how I might possibly make sense of sixteen bars? – of thirty two ” symphonic ” phrasings and their answerings and , well, my BUILDING.

It´s up to me.
( To compose or not to yell or condemn or act the silent coward and imitate myself and reap cheap applause, harvest, – I know EXACTLY what I´m logging about ? ) .
I was greatly comforted by recent celebrations of Lutoslawsky´s 100 th.
Of moral courage ( – in the DARKEST hour of Europe, also of European music ! ) , and thus his self-forged technique to fix / write SUCH orchestral wash and swirl and formal, sonic victories. The ” new” made , conceived, forged new by Lutoslawsky. ( In the middle of horrible , horrible loss, of Satan´s Last Temptation ? )
He did it.

I have now added you as a new composer to my Classical Composers
Database: http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/corcoran

I would be grateful if you could also add a link from your website to
my Classical Composers Database (http://www.classical-composers.org/).

Frank Corcoran in CRANE-BAG . June 1984 .

Irish music is being written by Irish composers on this island. It has the same right to attention as the other irish arts… Irish composers must work ( Groan ! Groan! ) for more performances, a major pedagogic effort directed at creating an audience and helping it to come with them down the long road since 1911. We can reverse the massive bias against the art of music. Against, really, all music. What I am really advocating is the art of listening.

Gnawing her body
The almost Christian lion
Colosseum meal

Biennale art:
Knead my bright woman´s body !
Gile na gile…

1990 Frank Corcoran Artist Fellow ( Composition ) at the
Virginia Artists´ Colony.
( The big black snake´s daily crawl from his tree-house ao the Centre´s kitchen
back-door. The death by suspicious drowning of Joe´s black brother )

2000 Frank Corcoran Artistic Director of the SLIGO MUSIC FESTIVAL
( In the William Butler Yeats town of Sligo, Sligeach, by Ireland´s North West
Atlantic Ocean – powerful, cruel pull and ebb and massive tides and waves,
mighty energy )
For Corcoran performances at this SLIGO FESTIVAL , see WORKS :