Commissioned by PNME as part of its 30th Anniversary season, Drunken Moon is a companion piece — a Prologue, of sorts — for Arnold Schoenberg’s seminal masterpiece, Pierrot Lunaire.
Drunken Moon
A Monodrama for Two Voices
“This is must-see music.”Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Undeniably memorable and
powerfully meaningful.”Sequenza21
Category: music drama
- Instrumentation: Pierrot ensemble & voices
- soprano
- bass-baritone
- flute/piccolo
- clarinet/bass clarinet
- violin/viola
- cello
- piano
Status: Completed
Duration: 27m
Completed: June, 2006
- World Premiere: July 1, 2006
- PNME 2006: “Drunken Moon”
Upcoming Performances: n/a
- Other Notable Performances:
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- 2006/07/01 PNME 2006: “Drunken Moon”
- 2014/08/02 PNME 2014: “Drunken Moon”
Commission: Kevin Noe and PNME
Dedication: n/a
Additional Credits: n/a
- Recordings:
30th Anniversary Argosy Foundation Recording, PNME
- Reviews:
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Sequenza21
- “Pierrot Lunaire [ceases] to be a German expressionist work [and becomes] a 21st-Century musical work” Ricardo Lorenz
Other Links: n/a
