related works

A set of six : for two alto saxophones and piano / Lowell Dykstra

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone and keyboard instrument
Scoring: 2sax-a pf

Marsyas : Concertsuite (Balthazar Verhagen) / Alphons Diepenbrock; samengesteld door Eduard Reeser

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: fl(picc) 2ob(eh) 2cl cl-b 2fg 3h timp perc hp str

Intermezzo and Epilogue : from the opera "The Expedition" / Klas Torstensson

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra; Voice and orchestra
Scoring: (sopr) fl(pic) pic(fl) fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b cl-cb 2fg cfg 2sax 4h 3trp 3trb 2tb timp 5perc g-b hp pf str synth (acc-solo)

Tweede suite : voor orkest, opus 88, 1980 / Léon Orthel

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2222 4230 timp 2perc str

composition

The Race Day : An overture for orchestra / Lowell Dykstra

Author(s):
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