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The Race Day : An overture for orchestra / Lowell Dykstra

Publisher's number: 10812
Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl(cl-b) 2fg 2h 2tpt trb timp perc hp str
Remarks: Commissioned by and written for the VU-Kamerorkest on the occasion of its tenth anniversary in 2002. The première took place at the Groate Kerk, St. Jacobiparochie (Friesland, NL), on 3 november 2002.
Duration: 5'30"
Year of composition: 2001
Status: fully digitized (real-time delivery)

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

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