Pierrot Lunaire Centenary Carnival Tent

2012 will mark the centennial of Arnold Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire,” an atonal song cycle using German translations of Albert Giraud’s grisly French expressionist poems about the old commedia dell’arte clown, Pierrot. (By “French” I mean the language. Giraud was a Belgian, from Leuven.)

The occasion cannot go unmarked, and since Tim Morton and I share a passion for this piece of music (as well as for Henri Rousseau’s “Carnival Evening” [Philadelphia], a painting often associated with the music) we wanted to do something to commemorate it.

THIS WEBSITE is the place to go, though it’s still fairly empty. Tim deserves all of the credit for setting this up; I did no work at all.