Cameron Rehberg (viola) and Ashlee Booth (cello) performed “Fuego y Duende” at the Parkview Senior Living and as part of the Knoxville Chamber Music Society 23-24 concert season.
Fuego y duende is a composition about the unrelenting search that fuels music in all its forms. At its root, the need for music comes from an inexplicable desire to find something indescribable. Music is a constant search. In García Lorca’s words “… there are no maps nor disciplines to help us find the duende. We only know that he burns the blood like a poultice of broken glass, that he exhausts, that he rejects all the sweet geometry we have learned…”