Frank Corcoran

Yes, it was 2006 and the Zagreb String Quartet premiered the Third String Quartet on magical Vis island, waters lapping ( my darling Caleno Quartet did it two years later among the grave sculptures of the Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin – see my writhings….. )
Yes, it was a high Croatian Shakespearean summer, 2004. The Irish Arts Council had commissioned ” Quasi Un Concerto ” for the Zagreb premier by the ( excellent ) new music chamber orchestra, CANTUS, conductor: Beroslaw Sipus. We put it together, Sipus and Corcoran, – GREAT Croatian musicologist, Professor Niksa Gligo was in on the fun!, on that lovely, lovely Dalmatian island. It was a hot, balmy, Shakespearean night at Venetian Vis Castle, a sweltering milky swell under their full moon. Almost a concerto for all five wind and piano and percussion and five strings. Fun and runs and metric and aleatoric passages . How Istrian time runs and ravages and roams and ravishes.