composer

Dykstra, Lowell

Lowell Dykstra is op 14 september geboren in Exeter, Huron County (Ontario), Canada. Op zevenjarige leeftijd emigreert hij met zijn familie naar Nederland. Hij studeert gitaar bij Guido Topper aan ...

related works

The pride parade : for orchestra, 1998 / Lowell Dijkstra

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 3332 4331 timp 2perc hp str

Fanfare(s) : Entrance music for brass quintet / Ross James Carey

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind Quintet
Scoring: h 2trp trb tb

Kleine watermuziek : divertimento in vier rhapsodische variaties over een bekend Hollandsch kinderliedje, fluit, hobo, klarinet, hoorn, fagot, (1951) / Jaap Geraedts

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind Quintet
Scoring: fl ob cl h fg

Four Dance Sketches : version for woodwind quintet / Robert Groslot

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind Quintet
Scoring: fl ob cl fg h

composition

Light and the half light : for wind quintet / Lowell Dykstra

Description:
Inside a large church or cathedral the different shadings of light coming in from windows is exuberant, but the shifting of incoming light when a cloud hides the sun will also change the atmosphere. There are certain spaces where there is virtually no light. This was an interesting musical idea and so I decided for all parts as well as within each part, to juxtapose the characters of different church modes: the Doric, Lydian, Mixolydian and Ionic. The hexatonic and octatonic scales have been sparingly used to create dissonant passages. Hence the overall title: ‘Light and the half light.”
Lowell Dykstra