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“Habits and routines and the struggle to change them……” Created for choreographer Sarah Major.

• David Downes: Saltwater  Year: 1993 

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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.

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

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

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• Farquhar: 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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Away with the Fairies is a string of kitsch songs about fairies and pixies, animals and children. They are linked by recitatives which, like the songs, include quotations from other composers’ music.

• William Dart: Song Book; computer-set 

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This dance theatre project was commissioned to celebrate the New Zealand Women’s Suffrage Centennial, and explores a range of historical and contemporary issues. It is based on documents written by Kate Shepherd and was choreographed by Susan Jordan.

• Fisher: Bone of Contention; facsimile 

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• Helen Fisher: Bone of Contention  Year: 1993 

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Dance music for violin, piano, squeezebox and percussion

It can be performed live as well, in part or in its entirety, though some effects are better achieved through the recording. The work is in nine sections which run continuously.

This work was composed for violinist Paula Smart and pianist Terence Dennis, who first recorded the work in March 1999.

• Anthony Ritchie: CONCERTINA  Year: 2012 

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• Palmer: Cypress; computer set 

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• Palmer: Cypress; computer set 

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• New Zealand Electronic Music 

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• New Zealand Electronic Music 

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• Lilburn: Complete Electroacoustic Works 

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The rousing nature of Celtic music was the basis for this piece which deals with a theme of aggressive competition. It is the final section of a composition commissioned for dance by Michael Parmenter.

• David Downes: Saltwater  Year: 1993 

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• Farquhar: Fives; facsimile 

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In this, the opening sequence of another dance work commissioned by Michael Parmenter, a man and a woman slowly emerge from within a muddy riverbank.

• David Downes: Saltwater  Year: 1993 

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