related works
Saxophone quartet : ("a final kiss"), 1997 / Lowell Dijkstra
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
4sax
Quote... unquote : for mezzo-soprano and small ensemble (version with guitar) / Klaas ten Holt
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr-m fl cl vla vc 2perc gtr
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr vl vc pf
Late of the city of Rome : for voice and flute quartet, 1989 / Jacques Bank
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr-m/ten fl(pic) fl(fl-a) 2fl(2fl-a 2fl-b)
composition
Lyrics of Life : for soprano and guitar / Lowell Dykstra; lyrics by W. Sharp, P.B. Shelley, W.H. Davids, E.A. Poe, E. Dickinson, L. Marks, S. Teasdale
Other authors:
Dykstra, Lowell
(Composer)
Description:
Lyrics of Life are the outcome of two musical worlds: my background in popular music and the classical. Having grown up in the 60s and 70s my musical expression was mainly formed by pop music with a special focus on singer-song writers such as Paul Simon and Don McClean. However, as of 1980 or so, my interest switched to classical music. Yet somehow, I knew that someday I would write a piece for voice and guitar where both genres could meet. It is in these songs that I strongly feel I have achieved this. Although classical in form and idiom, they touch the directness of popular song.
Lowell Dykstra