Ann,
Here's a response from someone who knows much more about this than I do:
"I think the Lorca description of Duende in his famous essay is half crap. When a light piece of Bach in the essay is described as having duende, that's BS. Duende is the dark spirit that is opposite across the room to ange'
(angel). "Whatever has black sounds has duende" is another line from the essay that seems almost true.
I think in all my years of flamenco I have experienced duende no more than three or so times. It was a transfiguring feeling about a flamenco "performance', not knowing whether to laugh or cry, but crying involuntarily . Nothing I have felt like it."
Jacinto
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