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Valse de Chopin

from Pierrot Lunaire by Jordan Randall Smith

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    Live from the 2009 Dallas Festival of Modern Music: Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21. Conductor Jordan Randall Smith leads Ars Nova Dallas at the 2009 Dallas Festival of Modern Music. Disc is signed. Visit www.jordanrsmith.com for more information.

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The tortured Pierrot cannot escape a desperate longing, perhaps for Columbine, perhaps for the pale washer woman – or maybe he is longing for something ntangible. In his lusty, darkened state, we see the end of Pierrot’s creativity and playfulness.

Conductor Jordan Randall Smith conducts Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. Smith leads Ars Nova Dallas at the 2009 Dallas Festival of Modern Music.

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Wie ein blasser Tropfen Bluts Like a pallid drop of blood
Färbt die Lippen einer Kranken Colors a sick man's lips
Also ruht auf diesen Tönen So reposes in these tones
Ein vernichtungssüchtger Reiz. A charm seeking annihilation.

Wilder Lust Accorde stören Wild air's accords disorder
Der Verzweiflung eisgen Traum Despair's glacial dream-
Wie ein blasser Tropfen Bluts Like a pallid drop of blood
Färbt die Lippen einer Kranken Colors a sick man's lips

Heiß und jauchzend, süß und schmachtend, Hot and jocund, sweet and tasty
Melancholisch düstrer Walzer, Melancholic dusty waltzes,
Kommst mir nimmer aus den Sinnen! Never come into my senses!
Haftest mir an den Gedanken, Hasten me on my conception
Wie ein blasser Tropfen Bluts! Like a pallid drop of blood.

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from Pierrot Lunaire, released August 15, 2014

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Jordan Randall Smith Baltimore, Maryland

Award-winning conductor Jordan Randall Smith is a conductor, percussionist, vocalist, writer, composer, music educator, and writer from Dallas currently living in Baltimore. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Dallas Festival of Modern Music, Asst. Conductor of the Peabody Opera Theater, and a Cover Conductor with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. ... more

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