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• n  a male character in French pantomime; usually dressed in white with a whitened face

• I send you a virtual chocolate pierrot puppet for getting the joke.
• His green stockings, oddly swollen, protruded from the pantaloons of a pierrot suit, and his face, painted half red, half white above his lace ruff, under a hat tipped with a .

• Pierrot

News & Articles

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• ‘Pierrot Lunaire,’ at Merkin Concert Hall
  The soprano Lucy Shelton offered a haunting, arresting interpretation of Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” at Merkin Concert Hall.
  June 9, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Jean-Luc Godard in Los Angeles Times
  After 'Pierrot,' I no longer feel this,Godard said.
• Glen Tetley in New York Times
  Pierrot finds his own unity,Mr. Tetley said in conversation last year. "After I made the work, I realized it was my journey."
• Gian Carlo Menotti in Tufts Daily
  Menotti, who was born in Italy in 1911, began composing at a very young age: By the time he was eleven, he had written "The Death of Pierrot," his first opera.