related works
Bird, Candle & Ignorance : for alto saxophone and piano / Lowell Dijkstra
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
sax-a pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
voice pf vc
The Divine Image : for soprano and two violins / Man-Ching Yu Donald, lyrics by William Blake
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
mezzo-sop, 2vl
Secret Diversion : for soprano and ensemble / Symon Clarke
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
fl cl-b vib hp sopr vln vcl
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
Author(s):
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