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

Riwajat kampong : (Legende) / Anny Mesritz v. Velthuysen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: medium ob pf 2vl vla vc

Berceuse : pour chant, violoncelle solo, harpe et instruments à cordes / musique de A. Diepenbrock, poème de Charles van Lerberghe

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr-m hp 4vl 2vla 2vc cb vc-solo

Songs of Love and Merriment : Six Elisabethan songs for mezzo-soprano and harp / René Samson; lyrics by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Thomas Campion, Anonymous, William Shakespeare, John Lyly

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: zang hp

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