composer
Lowell Dykstra is op 14 september geboren in Exeter, Huron County (Ontario), Canada. Op zevenjarige leeftijd emigreert hij met zijn familie naar Nederland. Hij studeert gitaar bij Guido Topper aan ...
related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
bar 2vl vla vc
Symphonie 01 : for amplified orchestra, 2001 / David Dramm
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2100 5sax 2440 3perc drums hp 2el.g el.g-b pf(keyb) str
Adagio : für Orchester, (in memoriam Wolfgang Fortner), 1987 / Ton de Kruyf
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 3perc hp pf str
Panta Rhei : Utopia for orchestra / Svyatoslav Lunyov
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3fl 3ob 2cl 2fg cfg 6h 4trp 3trb tb timp perc hp pf str
composition
The Race Day : An overture for orchestra / Lowell Dykstra
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