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Dykstra, Lowell

Lowell Dykstra componeert, meestal in opdracht, kamermuziek, koormuziek en werken voor orkest. Zijn muziek is uitgevoerd door het Nederlands Balletorkest, het Noord Nederlands Orkest, het Noordhollands Philharmonisch Orkest, Jeugd Orkest ...

gerelateerde werken

The Race Day : An overture for orchestra / Lowell Dykstra

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl(cl-b) 2fg 2h 2tpt trb timp perc hp str

Permutazioni sinfoniche : per orchestra, (1957) / Guillaume Landré

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 3332 4330 timp perc xyl str

Spleen : (based on the poem by Charles Baudelaire), for nineteen players, 1981 / Frans Vuursteen

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 0200 2000 str(5.4.3.2.1.)

The wallpeckers : = De Muurspechten, a toccata for orchestra, een toccata voor orkest, opus 48, 9 November 1999 / Peter Schat

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 4444 4331 timp perc pf str

compositie

The Race Day : An overture for orchestra / Lowell Dykstra

Toelichting:
When I first saw the extremely beautiful painting by Jack Yeats, Galway Races, I was immediately caught by it and I started imagening what a day at the horse races would be like. While I was in Ireland in 2002, spending my Summer holidays, I was lucky to go to the Sligo Horse races. I pictured some impressions of this event in this short and rather light-hearted composition.
The whole piece is almost entirely in a 6/8 metre, similar to the popular Irish jig (I've put one in), and based on the motive that runs throughout the work in various forms & instrumentation.
Lowell Dijkstra