related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
bar piano
Almanach aux images : bariton, 9 instrumenten, 1976 / tekst: Tristan Klingsor, muziek: Kees Olthuis
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
bar cl fg h pf 2vl vla vc cb
Übergänge : Textvon Fré Focke, für Mezzosopran, Violine und Klavier, 13. Folge, 1955 / Fré Focke
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr-m vl pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
high ob pf/org
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