Classical Music | Soprano

Recorded on 01/31/2006, uploaded on 01/18/2009

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Pierrot, from Quatre chansons de jeunesse      Claude Debussy

Pierrot (Théodore Faullin de Banville)

The good Pierrot, whom the crowd watches,

Having finished at Harlequin's wedding,

Wanders as in a dream along the Boulevard du Temple.

A young girl in a flimsy blouse

In vain entices him with her scamp's eye;

And meanwhile, mysterious and shiny

Making him its dearest delight,

The white moon with horns of a bull

Casts a glance offstage

At his friend Jean Gaspard Deburau*.

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^* Jean-Gaspard Deburau: a famous French mime

Courtesy of International Music Foundation.