nine dances first performed by the Alex Lindsay Orchestra. This rapidly became Farquhar's most performed piece and was commercially recorded by the Alex Lindsay Orchestra in 1962, a recording still available today as a CD reissue. Ashley Heenan, through the NZ APRA Committee, commissioned an arrangement for full orchestra for the National 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, and a variety of other versions exists: a Waltz Suite (1989) for string orchestra; an arrangement of the original Dance Suite (1992) for violin and piano; as well as shorter arrangements for both brass band and concert band. Other compositions A Unicorn For Christmas, opera in three acts Concertino for piano and strings Concerto for guitar and chamber orchestra Concerto for Wind Quintet, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn In Despite Of Death, a song cycle for baritone and piano Magpies and other birds, settings of three poems by Denis Glover for vocal quartet No-one and anyone, a setting of anyone lived in a pretty how town by E. E. Cummings for vocal sextet Partita, for piano Ring Round the Moon, Dance Suite for small orchestra Scherzo for orchestra String Quartet Suite, five-movement work for guitar – Prelude, Capriccio, Ostinato, Rondino and Epilogue. Symphony No. 1 for orchestra Symphony No. 2 for orchestra The Islands, song cycle for SATB choir Three Cilla McQueen Songs, for mezzo-soprano and piano Three Improvisations, for piano References Further reading Thomson, John Mansfield. 1990. "Farquhar, David (Andress)", Biographical Dictionary of New Zealand Composers, edited by John Mansfield Thomson, 58–61. Wellington: Victoria University Press. Thomson, J[ohn]. M[ansfield]. 2001. "Farquhar, David (Andress)". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrell. London: Macmilln Publishers. 1928 births 2007 deaths New Zealand classical composers Male classical composers New Zealand film score composers Victoria University of Wellington faculty People from Cambridge, New Zealand Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit People educated at Whanganui Collegiate School Victoria University of Wellington alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Male film score composers 20th-century male musicians