Arnold Schoenberg’s sacrilegious “Pierrot Lunaire” foretold a distortion of reality that has never left us. Schoenberg, 'Pierrot Lunaire' and music for a mad world - Los Angeles Times ...

Schoenberg called “Pierrot lunaire” a cycle of melodramas — of spoken text with instrumental accompaniment. It was written to the specifications of Albertine Zehme, a Viennese actress who ...

Pierrot lunaire brought back the long, dormant musical form of the melodrama, ... Before Schoenberg took it up, a number of his contemporaries worked on marrying the text to music.

I have been a musician all my life and worked in classical music for decades. How is it that I’ve never attended a performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s "Pierrot Lunaire"? It’s the burning ...

Only a week after a well-attended Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group performance of Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," Xtet put on another performance of the piece at LACMA's Bing Theatre on ...

The nonprofit Guarneri Hall will present Pierrot Unmasked, a concert series exploring the poetic and theatrical context of Arnold Schoenberg’s seminal melodrama, Pierrot lunaire. On December 9th ...

One of the most influential works of modern music celebrated its centenary this season. Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," an unforgettable atonal song cycle that premiered in October 1912 ...