Renowned Soviet violinist David Oistrakh gave the premiere of the First Violin Concerto on 29 October 1955 with the Leningrad Philharmonic with Mravinsky conducting.

Renowned film producer David Parfitt belonged to this company before achieving worldwide fame and is now a patron of the theatre.

Renowned composers of contemporary music dedicated works to David Geringas, thus the Concerto in Do by Anatolijus Šenderovas, being played by David Geringas for the first time in 2002 and being awarded the European Composers Prize in Berlin, the Cello Concerto by Ned Rorem, world premiere 2003 in the USA, the Cello Concertos by Vytautas Laurušas and by Vidmantas Bartulis, world premiere 2004 respective 2005 in Latvia.

Renowned designer / directors, as well as Philip Prowse, include Kenny Miller, Stewart Laing, Nigel Lowery, Tom Cairns, Antony McDonald and designers Sue Blane, Michael Levine, Maria Bjornson, David Fielding etc.

The traditional Jewish belief was that the ( Jewish ) Messiah would be of the Davidic line, based on the's promise to David of an everlasting throne for his offspring (,,, ).

The opening of the Epistle to the Romans () includes the words: " concerning his Son, who was descended from David ( or who came from the offspring of David ) according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord ".

According to herpetologists who study the Solomon Islands skink, such as Dr. David Kirkpatrick and Dr. Kevin Wright, captive breeding alone is not practical as a sole method of species survival due to the limited number of offspring and long gestation periods.

This leads to David not fitting in well with the rest of the alien offspring.

God states that the house, throne and kingdom of David and his offspring ( called " the one who will build a house for my Name " in the verse ) will last forever.