| Running the country, of course, ought not to be merely a self-improving challenge for jaded Bullingdon plutocrats, like learning the French horn from scratch in a week, unicycling, or becoming a pierrot. |
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| Spelled out in the melancholy of Seated Harlequin is a sorrow so deep that it can only be told in mime: the two fingers the pierrot points at his temple echo Casagemas's mode of suicide. |
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| Of course, the awkward question then arises as to which Bowie should be commemorated – the glam rock one, the thin white Duke, the pierrot, or the one with bandages around his head. |
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| Instead, in hopped a full-size Pierrot, in his conventional white garment with the big black pompons and the peaked hat. |
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| I had to take a decision, for I could not pass the whole night in my costume of Pierrot, and without speaking. |
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| It is a series of dances for commedia dell'arte characters including Columbine, Harlequin, and Pierrot. |
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| But while the most appealing of clowns is Pierrot, pale, lean and dreamy, with cooks, at least until recently, the popular one was the fat guy. |
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| The dress of Pierrot might conceal some other man, but certainly no one that I could have seen in this place without horror. |
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| Pierrot Lunaire, performed in Berlin in 1912, was scored for eight instruments and a voice for which relative pitches were notated to form a speech-melody. |
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| The score anticipated Schoenberg's technique in Gurrelieder and Pierrot Lunaire, indicating the rises and falls of the voice with relative pitches. |
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| Pierrot and Columbine are not far away, neither is turmoil, nor humour. |
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| A pantomime version of Robinson Crusoe was staged at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1796, with Joseph Grimaldi as Pierrot in the harlequinade. |
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