related works
Bird, Candle & Ignorance : for alto saxophone and piano / Lowell Dijkstra
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
sax-a pf
Tegen je rug : voor mezzo-sopraan en cello, 1997 / gedicht: Rutger Kopland, Huub Kerstens
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr-m vc
I look, you look : for baritone and harp / Nimrod Borenstein
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
bar hp
Quatter miniaturas rumantschas : per üna vusch ed üna flöta, op. 68, 1965-66 / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr fl(fl-a)
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