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This music was originally commissioned by Richard Campion for the New Zealand Players’ production of Ring Round the Moon by Jean Ahhouil, translated by Christopher Fry. In the second act there is a ball taking place offstage and demanding a large number of dances which are specified in the text.

The music was first recorded on acetate discs by a ad hoc orchestra led by Alex Lindsay; these small recordings were then played through speakers for the production, sounding very loud to the cast but filtering out more gently to the audience. At the end of the long national tour, the cast knew the music very well and suggested to me that I should do something with it.

The result, some years later, 1957, was a suite of nine dances first performed by the Alex Lindsay Orchestra. This rapidly became my most performed piece and was commercially recorded by the Alex Lindsay Orchestra in the 1960s, a recording still available today from Kiwi Pacific Reords.

Ashley Heenen, through the NZ APRA Committee, commissioned an arrangement for full orchestra for the NZ Youth Orchestra to take on a tour of Europe and China in 1975. This version was shortened to six dances by leaving out the first three numbers. The music has also been used for a ballet, The Wintergarden, choreographed by Arthur Turnbull for the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company – this version included a tenth dance not in the 1957 Suite. Since 1975 two further version have been commissioned: Waltz Suite (1989), for string orchestra (five dances) for the Nova Strings, and an arrangement of the original Dance Suite (1992) for violin and piano (nine dances) for Isador Saslav.

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• Farquhar: A Short Suite from Ring Round the Moon; computer-set 

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• SOUNZ Orchestral 1993 

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• New Zealand Composers  Year: 1995 

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• Lilburn: A Song of Islands; facsimile  Year: 1996 

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• SOUNZfine Volume 2 

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• Lilburn: A Song of Islands and other works  Year: 1986 

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• Lilburn: A Song of Islands  Year: 1986 

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• Douglas Lilburn: A Song of Islands  Year: 1987 

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• Douglas Lilburn: Orchestral Music  Year: 1995 

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• Douglas Lilburn: Orchestral Works   Year: 2004 

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• Wild Music   Year: 2004 

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“He Hides himself so wondrously, As though there were no God” Scottish Psalter 1615

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• Premieres 2004, Volume 3 

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This orchestral work was commissioned by the Gisborne Community Arts Council for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and celebrates 100 years of work by the Salvation Army in New Zealand. The work derives, although not obviously, from two tunes associated with the Salvation Army and the nature of the piece is that of an exclamation.

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• Lyell Cresswell: Orchestral Music 2  Year: 1992 

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• De Castro-Robinson: Pendulums of blue; facsimile 

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• Music by Eve de Castro-Robinson 

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• Bowater: River of Ocean; computer-set 

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• Helen Bowater: Various Works 

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• NZ Women Composers Vol. 6 

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• NZ Women Composers Volume 4 

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• New Zealand New Music in Scotland 

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• Works by Helen Bowater 

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• SOUNZfine Volume 5: New Zealand Women Composers 

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• Powell: Rothko Variations; computer set 

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• Carr: Sinfonietta; facsimile  

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• Music by Blake, Lodge and Carr 

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• Edwin Carr: Sinfonietta and Promenade 

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• Edwin Carr: Poems, Sinfonietta and Promenade 

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• Edwin Carr: Orchestral Works and Symphony No. 4  Year: 1995 

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• Lilburn: Symphony No. 3; computer-set  Year: 1997 

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• Douglas Lilburn: The Three Symphonies  Year: 1968 

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• Music by Lilburn and Farquhar  Year: 1968 

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• Music by Lilburn and Farquhar  Year: 1969 

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• Lilburn: Three Symphonies  Year: 1993 

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• Lilburn: The Three Symphonies  Year: 2001 

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This Symphony is dedicated to the memory of my wife, Raydia, who died in 2001, and is based on material from my song-cycle, In Despite of Death, a work that she had been closely associated with. The Symphony follows the emotional shape of the song-cycle, moving from struggle and resistance towards acceptance. The first movement is the most substantial, and near the beginning introduces a three-note figure (on horns and trumpet), which permeates the whole work. The three final movements – scherzo, slow march and epilogue – are played without a break.

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• Farquhar: Symphony No.3 Remembered Songs; computer-set 

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• Works: Farquhar, Harris and Rimmer 

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• David Farquhar: Three Symphonies  Year: 2004 

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• Island Song  Year: 2010 

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