This “mysterious power that everyone feels but that no philosopher has explained” is in fact the spirit of the earth.
Duende (untranslatable, but roughly: passion, élan, bravura in its deepest, most artistic sense) is for Lorca ‘all that has dark sounds. In a lecture entitled Theory and Function of the ‘Duende, ’ Lorca has, in fact, identified the essential characteristic of his own poetry. Crumb described the poet’s style as “a language which is primitive and stark, but which is capable of infinitely subtle nuance. Political struggles that led to the Spanish Civil War (García Lorca was shot by Fascists in 1936) gave new intensity to the traditional Spanish poetic idiom, with its dark mysticism and preoccupation with death.
#GEORGE CRUMB DEATH SERIES#
Ancient Voices of Children, composed in response to a commission from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, was one of a series of early works based on the poetry of the Andalucian poet Federico García Lorca.
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