Performance by Members of New Music Chicago:
Cristina Buciu, Violin I
Trisha Park, Violin II
Mason Spencer, Viola
Ben Fryxell, Cello
art: With the yoke at the river, and Violinist in a boat by Arthur Garguromin-Verona
Doina from the Spellbook of George Enescu is a love-letter to my favorite composer Enescu and to the folk music of Romania. Yearning melodies inspired by Romanian doinas swim through starry harmonics evoking flickering dusts of magic, eventually evolving into a visceral 7/8 folk dance before imploding back to contemplation.