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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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For full orchestra, this work has been performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra on tours to Australia and Hong Kong.

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• Lilburn: Symphony No. 2 and other works  Year: 1976 

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• Farquhar: Bells in their Seasons; facsimile 

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• Farquhar: Bells in their Seasons; facsimile 

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This cycle for unaccompanied women’s chorus in five short movements sets various Ben Jonson lyrics including So Sweet is She and Men’s Shadows.

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• John Ritchie: So Sweet is She from "Canary Wine"; video 

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• New Zealand Choral Music Vol. 1  Year: 1994 

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• Tower New Zealand Youth Choir: Winds that Whisper  Year: 1998 

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• Farquhar: Echoes and Reflections; facsimile 

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• Music by David Farquhar  Year: 1993 

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A concerto for horn and orchestra, Explorations- Discoveries was composed in the early 1970’s at a time when the James Cook bicentenary was being celebrated. Just as the famous sailor explored and discovered, so to the composing of the work.

The work is structured in five interrelated sections contrasting fast with slow preceded by a slow introduction and concluding with a slow coda. All these sections orbit a central palindrome.

The horn is treated both lyrically and dramatically. Its music covers a wide range of pitch and dynamics and the instrument frequently is in dialogue with the orchestral horns.

Explorations – Discoveries was first performed in 1975 at a studio recording by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alex Lindsay with Marcel Lambert as the horn soloist.

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• Body: Hello Francois; facsimile 

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‘Hoata’ was written in 1979, while I was composer-in-residence for Northern Arts and a Fellow of Newcastle University, for the Northern Sinfonia, who, conducted by David Haslam, gave the first performance during the Newcastle Festival later that year. I wrote the piece, named for the Maori phase of the moon when the new moon is barely apparent, while I was living on the Northumbrian moors north of Hexham. It was a cold winter, and the snow around the small remote cottage, which was not well insulated, lay around for four months as blizzard followed blizzard, and something of the isolation and the environment seems to have got into the piece. ‘Hoata’ consists of sections built up in a mosaic-like manner, separated by freer sections, which may be cadenzas, or have a degree of improvisation; there is at times perhaps a suggestion of birdsong.

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This piece attempts to shatter most images of traditional brass band music with its stirring contrasts in rhythm and texture. It calls for a high degree of virtuoso playing found in top quality brass bands.

Iconoclasm was awarded second prize in a composition competition sponsored by the Brass Bands Association of New Zealand and as part of the adjudication process the work was performed by the Skellerup Woolston Band of Christchurch conducted by Mervyn Waters.

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• Daverne: Ka Puke Maeroero (The Southern Alps); computer-set 

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• Gary Daverne: Youth of Auckland 

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• Gary Daverne: Orchestral Music  Year: 1981 

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