Author: BBC
Last Update: december 3, 2012
Quotation: "A hundred years after its premiere, Arnold Schoenberg’s fiercely brilliant and totally Surreal sextet Pierrot lunaire still has the ability to unsettle audiences. Based on bizarre and brassy texts by Symbolist poet Albert Giraud, Schoenberg plays music puppeteer with his landmark Opus 21. Pierrot, the sad, old, Italian pantomime clown: lovestruck, blasphemous, mocking, violent and finally nostalgic. The half-spoken, half-sung twisted melodrama with its splash of cabaret and high art reflects Schoenberg’s own numerological manias..."
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Web site: BBC
UR: http://www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/events/1212
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