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Bird, Candle & Ignorance : for alto saxophone and piano / Lowell Dijkstra
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Saxofoon en toetsinstrument
Bezetting:
sax-a pf
Rompere le Noci : In memoriam Louis Andriessen; for orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Space of time : for orchestra, 1990 / Jan Rokus van Roosendael
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
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Intrada festiva : orchestra, 1976 / Herman Strategier
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
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Bezetting:
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compositie
The Race Day : An overture for orchestra / Lowell Dykstra
Auteur(s):
Dykstra, Lowell
(Componist)
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