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Pierrot lunaire
Thomas Guthrie, Amanda Pitt and David Owen Norris
of
THE WORKS
combine with
The New Music Players
to offer a commedia dell'arte programme
Pierrot lunaire in a new English translation
with images and mime
Stravinsky's Suite italienne
Verlaine settings by Debussy
Edward Cowie's song-cycle Brighella's World (1982)
Touring from 2006-2007 season
Public funding and commercial sponsorship
will supplement your promotion budget
to register your interest
Norris
who writes:
This Pierrot programme comes in the short term out of my extensive listening work on the Schoenberg for Radio 3's Building a Library broadcast on November 26 th at 9.30am (and the January edition of the BBC Music Magazine) – but in fact it's something that we've been working on for several years. Our experience with new methods of presentation mean we shall bring Pierrot alive in new ways, and my new translation is the fruit of long thought about a) the imperatives of our own language (a good place to start!) b) the nature of sprechstimme and c) a careful comparison of the German text with the original French. I premiered the remarkable Cowie song-cycle (to the composer's own words) with David Wilson-Johnson. The Stravinsky and Debussy commedia-based pieces complete the programme with very different aspects of the wealth of 20 th -century music. We're particularly pleased to be presenting this in collaboration with the New Music Players. It will be a landmark in Pierrot performance, with mime, projected images and animation (see Picture Gallery ), and multiple voicing, played as chamber-music without a conductor. We propose to keep it in our repertoire for many years. We're working hard on funding, and it will help if you can register your interest by sending me an email.
