{"id":511,"date":"2024-06-15T10:52:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T08:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nieuw.lowelldykstra.com\/?page_id=511"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:21:13","slug":"vocal-choir-with-and-without-ensemble","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lowelldykstra.com\/?page_id=511","title":{"rendered":"Vocal choir with and without ensemble"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Tale the Trees Tell<\/strong> for mixed choir SATB (2025)
This third version is loosely based on the musical material of the original instrumental trio version.
During my daily walk through the woods and across the heath near my home, I sometimes come across a tree marked with a red symbol. It is clear that the purpose of this is to indicate that the tree will probably soon be felled. My thoughts turn to the surrounding trees, and I imagine them having a conversation, lamenting the impending loss of one of their own.\u00a0
– prose poem which I wrote. To read it, click here<\/a>
– duration: ca. 4’30”
– published by Donemus preview<\/a><\/p>

All that’s past<\/strong> for mixed choir SATB (2025)
– poem by: Sir Walter de la Mare
– duration: ca. 2’30”
– published by Donemus preview<\/a><\/p>

Tussen wonderen<\/strong> voor koor SATB (2023)
De tekst bestaat uit de laatste zin\u00a0 uit A. den Doolaard\u2019s boek De goden gaan naar huis<\/em>: \u201cWe hebben tussen wonderen geleefd, maar we hebben het niet begrepen.\u201d De zin die tevens op zijn grafsteen (een kei) in Hoenderloo is geplaatst.
\u00a0– duration: ca. 2\u201930\u201d
\u00a0– published by Donemus preview<\/a><\/p>

The Wanderer<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2013 a little cantata \u2013 (March, 2022 \/ revised July, 2025)
\u2018Song of the Wanderer\u2019 is a poem that talks about Jose Rizal himself as a wanderer or traveler. In this poem, Rizal describes the loneliness of being a wanderer (reflecting on his return to the Philippines from Europe) and, after being away from his homeland for a long time, the heartbreak of being a stranger in the land of his birth.
– poem by Jose Rizal
– Instrumentation: mixed choir, (with bass\/baritone solo and alto solo from chorus) and wind quintet (fl, ob, cl, hrn & bassoon)
\u00a0– duration: ca. 13\u2032
\u00a0– published by Donemus preview<\/a><\/p>

The Sick Rose<\/strong> for mixed choir (2021)
So much beauty and vulnerability is being and has been attacked and destroyed from both outside and inside. A striking resemblance to this poem.\u00a0
\u00a0– poem by William Blake
\u00a0– duration: 2\u201930\u201d
\u00a0– not published yet<\/p>

La guitarra<\/strong> (2020)
instrumentation: mixed choir and guitar
commissioned by and dedicated to Klaas de Jong
The poem is by Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca and describes the starting of the playing, the memories it evokes and the impossibility of stopping the guitar. One can characterise this piece as an evocation, combining passages that are strongly based upon Andulisian flavour and its guitar repertoire, with comtemporary texture and idiom.
\u00a0– premiere: March 12, 2022 in ‘de Dorpskerk’, Lekkum. Leeuwarder Madrigaalkoor \/ Broer Giesing \/ guitar Izhar Elias
\u00a0– duration: ca. 9\u201930\u201d
\u00a0– published by Donemus preview<\/a>
\u00a0– Newspaper article<\/a> (Dutch)<\/p>

Sudan<\/strong> \u2013 a lament (2019)
instrumentation: 5 female voices (or women’s choir)
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Sudan was the last male northern white rhino. His passing was in 2018 but it was only In September 2019 when I watched a documentary about him. Guarded by armed men against poachers, It was shocking and at the same time touching to see this giant, so tender and vulnerable in his last moments.
The text was made up of newspaper snippets:<\/p>

his eye, a sad black dot in his massive, wrinkled face<\/em>
a noble head of an old warrior<\/em>
a majestic rectangle of strong bone<\/em>
his armour battered<\/em>
victim of futile human destructiveness<\/em>
guarded by armed men who stand<\/em>
vigilantly and caringly with him<\/em>
the passing of the very last of something<\/em>
soon vanished from the face of the earth<\/em>
an image of brutality<\/em><\/p>

\u00a0– duration: ca. 2\u2032
\u00a0– publishe by Donemus preview<\/a><\/p>

O me! O life!<\/strong> (2016)
text: Walt Whitman
instrumentation: mixed choir and string quintet (two violins, viola, cello and double bass)
Dedicated to Fokko Oldenhuis
\u00a0– premiere: April 21, 2016 Oudshoornse kerk, Alphen a\/d Rijn by Hollands Vocaal Ensemble conducted by Fokko Oldenhuis
\u00a0– duration: ca. 12\u2032
\u00a0– published by Donemus preview<\/a><\/p>

Draaf, Foekje. Draaf!<\/strong> (2011)
instrumentation: foar brass band, koar en slachwurk (brass band GK4 timp 6perc)
commissioned by Stichting Calliope [The Calliope Foundation] at the request of Marten Postma (Soli Brass)
text: Bouke Oldenhof
Premiere: September 9, 2011 by Ensemble Cantatrix and Soli Brass De Harmonie, Leeuwarden conducted by Frans-Aert Burghgraef. Stage design and footage was done by BUOG. (Bedenkers en Uitvoerders van Ongewone Gebeurtenissen \u2013 in English this would mean something like: Inventors and Performers of Unusual Events) Thanks to NOS-Sport television for supplying historical footage of Foekje Dillema . Showing this footage during performance is optional.
\u00a0– premiere: September 9, 2011 by Ensemble Cantatrix and Soli Brass De Harmonie, Leeuwarden conducted by Frans-Aert Burghgraef
\u00a0– duration: ca. 52\u2032
\u00a0– published by Donemus preview<\/a>
\u00a0– an introduction to the performance can be watched here<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>

La Neige<\/strong> \u2013 de \u201cLes notes de\u2019oreiller\u201d (2010)
instrumentation: mixed choir and string quartet
Translated into French, this is a fragment from The Pillow Book by the Japanese court lady Sei Shonagon who lived in the tenth century. The Pillow Book is her diary, which she secretly kept under her pillow during her years in court, containing a collection of lists, gossip, poetry and observations.
\u00a0– premiere: June 25, 2011 Eure (Fr) by Tempo 144 and Le Quatuor de Mirmande
\u00a0– duration: ca. 6\u2032
\u00a0– published by Donemus preview<\/a><\/p>

Als de vogels<\/strong> (2006)
\u00a0commissioned by VOCA Deventer
instrumentation: mixed choir and organ
text: Arthur Japin
\u00a0– premiere: March 19, 2006 Grote of Lebu\u00efnuskerk\u2019 Deventer(The Netherlands) by VOCA Deventer and organist Hans Steege conducted by Yt Nicolai
\u00a0– duration: ca. 6\u2032
\u00a0– published by Donemus preview<\/a><\/p>

A thin place \u2013 3 prayers from the Carmina Gadelica<\/strong> for mixed choir (2002)
commissioned by Studium Chorale with financial support of the \u2018Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst\u2019 and dedicated to Hans Leenders
The texts come from a collection of prayers which Alexander Carmichael in 1832 was given permission for by local people living in remote areas in Scotland, to write down. \u201cThere is a Celtic saying that heaven and earth are only three feet apart, but in the thin places that distance is even smaller. A thin place is where the veil that separates heaven and earth is lifted and one is able to receive a glimpse of something devine
the text is sung in Gaelic
\u00a0– premiere: September 21, 2002 during the festival Musica Sacra, Maastricht by Studium Chorale conducted by Hans Leenders
\u00a0– duration: ca. 10\u2032
\u00a0– published by Donemus preview<\/a><\/p>

Sailing to Byzantium<\/strong> (2000)
written for the Egidius Quartet
text: William Butler yeats
instrumentation: four male voices, altus, tenor, baritone and bass.
\u00a0– duration: ca. 5\u2032
\u00a0– not published<\/p>

About leaves<\/strong> (1998)
instrumentation: women\u2019s choir and guitar ensemble
commissioned by COMPAM (Componisten voor Amateurmuziek)
text: on three Welsh poems, \u2018Leaf\u2019 \u2013 Gwyn Thomas, \u2018Gathering leaves\u2019 \u2013 William Crwys Williams \u2013 \u2018Englynion\u2019 \u2013 John Phillips (Tegidon)
translation: Tony Conran
\u00a0– duration: ca. 7\u2032
\u00a0– published by Donemus preview<\/a><\/p>

Nightingales<\/strong> (1998) for mixed choir
text: Robert Bridges
\u00a0– premiere: \u2026\u2026 by the Nederlands Kamerkoor \/ Huub Kerstens
\u00a0– duration: ca. 6\u2032
\u00a0– published by Donemus preview<\/a><\/p>

The Whitsun Weddings<\/strong> (1996) for mixed choir
dedicated to Daniel Reuss and Vocaal Ensemble Utrechtse Studenten
Commissioned by and with financial support from the \u2018Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst\u2019
texts: Ph. Larkin (Whitsun weddings) and J. Davidson (London).
\u00a0– premiere: \u2026..
\u00a0– duration: ca. 14\u2032 30\u2033
\u00a0– published by Donemus preview<\/a><\/p>

Two Rossetti songs<\/strong> for mixed choir (1994)
dedicated to Daniel Reuss and Vocaal Ensemble Utrechtse Studenten
commissioned by and with financial support from the \u2018Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst\u2019
text: The Woodspurge and Silent noon by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
\u00a0– premiere: \u2026..
\u00a0– duration: ca. 10\u2032
\u00a0– published by Donemus preview<\/a><\/p>

Butterfly<\/strong> (1990)
instrumentation: mixed choir and wind quintet
commissioned by Stichting het Velper Bach Ensemble
text: D.H.Lawrence
\u00a0– premiere: \u2026..
\u00a0– duration: ca. 8\u2032
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