Further credits below. Narrator gives a brief biographical sketch. Ensemble performs in a 19th-century salon. Performer is dressed as Pierrot.
All performers are in costume.
All performers are in costume. He further suggests that the reason Schoenberg was able to convey such a powerful sense of alienation was a series of alienating events in his own life. Narrator explains the idea of Sprechstimme and reads from the introduction to Pierrot . Instrumentalists are invisible except for their hands. He discusses the continuing reluctance among large, prestigious ensembles to perform his works even now.