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Jack Body  

23 Pages

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1971
for large orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    (pc)3(alto)3(ca)3(bcl)2;4331;3 perc (timp,s-dr,vibe); cel,hp,pf; strs

David Farquhar  

A Short Suite from "Ring Round the Moon"

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1975
for full orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    2222; 4230; timp, perc; strs.
  • Programme Note

    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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Bryony Jagger  

A Tear Wiped Away

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1979
for soprano, tenor voices and harp

Gillian Bibby  

Aie! A Conversation Piece

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1975
for tape

John Rimmer  

Beyond

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1978
for solo piano

Denis Smalley  

Chanson de geste

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1978
For amplified voice, clavichord and percussion

Christopher Norton  

Childrens Voices

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1979
for solo voices, semi-chorus and SATB choir

John Rimmer  

Composition 10

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1977
double bass and electronic sounds

John Rimmer  

Composition 8

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1974
for violin and electronic sounds

Denis Smalley  

Cornucopia

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1973
amplified horn and tape