related works

Pyramus and Thisbe : for guitar / Lowell Dykstra

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Guitar
Scoring: g

Variations symphoniques : [super] "Merck toch hoe sterck" / Marius Monnikendam

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2223 sax-a 4331 timp perc hp str

Muziek voor Elektra : = Music for [Elektra], tragedie van Sophocles, tragedy by Sophocles / symphonische suite samengesteld door = symphonic suite arranged by Eduard Reeser, Alphons Diepenbrock

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2fl(pic) ob(ob-am) ob(eh) 2cl cl-b 3trp 3trb timp perc hp str

Microkosmos : for orchestra / Willem Stoppelenburg

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: fl/fl-a ob/eh 2cl 2gh 2h 3trb pf hp str

composition

The Race Day : An overture for orchestra / Lowell Dykstra

Other authors:
Dykstra, Lowell (Composer)
Description:
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