Bitter suite memories: How a Cork composer's music was inspired by the burning of his hometown
Paul Frost with his partner Mia Cooper and their kids Joanie and Íde. Picture: Ruth Medjber
With his orchestral suite, The Burning of Cork, Paul Frost wants you to close your eyes and imagine you are there on that night on December 11, 1920. The broadcast of his piece on Lyric FM on Friday takes place exactly 100 years after a night of terror in Cork city when Crown forces burned and looted many of Cork city’s businesses, and left some of its finest building in ruins.
From Inniscarra, Frost comes to composition from the perspective of an insider with a career spanning two decades as a bass-trombone player and a prolific arranger for orchestras and big bands, covering a broad range from pop to jazz to classical.
