January 30 2007: Revised the
date of the Matangi Quartet's performance of Simpson's Third String Quartet, and
finalized the dates of the Simpson Symphony Broadcasts on Afternoon Performance in the
Concert
Calendar.
January 28 2007: Revised the
wording of the
Concert
Calendar.
January 27 2007: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, including details of BBC Radio Three's broadcasts of the complete
symphony cycle and brass music recorded at the Royal Northern College of Music's
Brass Festival.
January 24 2007: Updated the
Concert
Calendar.
January 14 2007: Updated the
Updated the Simpson
Society officers listing, and the
Simpson Society
Archive page.
December 20 2006: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, and
Recordings..
November 20 2005: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, correcting the broadcast date of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's
November 25th performance of the 5th Symphony.
October 20 2005: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, giving details of the two performances of Simpson's 3rd String
Quartet.
October 15 2005: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, giving details of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's November 25th
broadcast performance of the 5th Symphony.
October 8 2005: Added link to
PDF version of Tonic, Volume 11, to
Books
and Articles about Simpson. Updated the
Concert
Calendar, giving details of Matthew Taylor's talk at the October 16th
performance of the 7th Quartet.
Added Martin Anderson's review of the Hyperion recording of Symphony No. 11, and
his interview with Matthew Taylor in
Recordings.
September 11 2005: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, giving details of the chamber music concerts for autumn-winter
2005-2006.
January 22 2005: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, giving details of the Coull Quartet's performance of the 11th
String Quartet.
September 18 2004: Overhauled
the web page, separating subsections into individual pages. Removed or updated
dead links.
September 12 2004: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, giving details of two performances of Allegro Deciso by Sound
Collective. Updated
Forthcoming
and Recent Releases to include release of Hyperion recording of Symphony No.
11 and the Nielsen Variations.
February 1 2004: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, giving details of two U.S. performances of the Fifth Symphony in
Concord M.A., and one additional performance of the Seventh Symphony by the
Orchestra of the Swan in Cheltenham, England.
November 1 2003: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, giving details of Startford-upon-Avon performances of Symphony No.
7 and Allegro Deciso, and the Manchester performance of the Variations and Fugue
for recorder and String Quartet.
Updated
Forthcoming
and Recent Releases to update the schedule for the recording and release of Symphony No. 11.
Updated the Simpson
Society officers listing.
July 8 2003: Announced the
sad death of Ted Perry. Updated the
Concert
Calendar, giving provisional details of the Ted Perry Memorial Concert.
Updated
Forthcoming
and Recent Releases to include the re-release of the Boult/LPO recording
of Symphony No. 1, and the schedule for the recording of Symphony No. 11.
Updated the Simpson
Society officers listing.
Dec 14 2001: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, giving provisional details of the London premiere of the
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Bach; and the
Recordings,
giving details of the Olympia CD of the Recorder Quintet.
Sept 29 2001: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, giving provisional details of the London premieres of the
Eleventh Symphony and the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Bach.
Sept 3 2001: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, revising details of the performance of the Violin Sonata
at the BMIC.
Aug 26 2001: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, including details of the performance of the Violin Sonata
at the BMIC.
July 21 2001: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, including details of the performances of the Clarinet Quintete
in County Kerry, Ireland, organized by Chamber
Music in Retreat Lodges.
May 12 2001: Updated the
Concert
Calendar,, including details of the broadcast talk on Simpson prior
to the BBC Symphony Orchestra's performance of Simpson's Symphony No. 4.
April 18 2001: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, including full details of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's performance
of Simpson's Symphony No. 4, and notice of Timothy Muro's performance of
the Flute Concerto (in piano reduction).
March 31 2001: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, (including notice of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's performance
of Simpson's Symphony No. 4).
February 25 2001: Added links
to the
Concert
Calendar, added notice of the BBC's real audio broadcast of the Piano
Concerto, corrected minor typos.
January 28 2001: Updated the
Concert
Calendar, (including notice of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's performance
of Simpson's Piano Concerto), and added information on John B. Turner's
reconstruction of Simpson's Variations and Fugue for Recorder and String
Quartet to the
Chronological
List of Compositions,
Concert
Calendar, and
Recordings.
November 13 2000: Added notice
of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's intention to perform an orchestral piece
by Simpson to the
Concert
Calendar. Corrected links in
Books
and Articles by Simpson section.
October 10 2000: Added information on the release
the Delme Quartet's recording of Simpson's arrangement of Bach's Die Kunst
der Fuge to the
Recordings
and Books
and Articles by Simpson sections.
August 5 2000: Extensive revisions of
Books
and Articles by Simpson and
Books
and Articles about Simpson, and revisions of the
Links
section.
February 19 2000: Added four
more String Quartet concerts to the
Concert
Calendar.
Added a page describing the results of BBC Music Magazine's poll
on 20th Century music and composers.
February 15 2000: Removed the Fitzwilliam Quartet
concert from the
Concert
Calendar.
February 13 2000: Added notice of the major
concert series of Simpson String Quartets, "A Tribute to Robert Simpson",
featuring the Lindsay, Vanbrugh, Chilingirian, Vertavo, Vellinger and Fitzwilliam
Quartets, sponsored by the Bluff Field Charitable Trust, to the
Concert
Calendar.
January 9 2000: Added the Delme Quartet's CD
of Simpson's arrangement of Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge to the
Forthcoming
and Recent Releases section of
Recordings.
Revised the introduction and
Simpson
Society section.
October 30 1999: Added notice of the
cancellation of the London Premiere of Simpson's 11th Symphony, and updated
the
Concert
Calendar.
July 4 1999: Restored local versions of most
of Martin Anderson's CD
Reviews,
and deleted defunct links to the old online version of Fanfare Magazine.
June 20 1999: Added my
review
of the U.S. Premiere of Simpson's 7th Symphony and links to it in the
Concert
Calendar.
June 6 1999: Added notice of the London Premiere
of Simpson's 11th Symphony and revised the
Concert
Calendar.
April 24 1999: Added page of
comments
from students playing in the US premiere of Simpson's 7th Symphony and
a link to it in the
Concert
Calendar. Revised
Links.
April 3 1999: Changed contact address for home
page to andyjackson0@yahoo.com (the old address will still work). Added
works found in Simpson's papers after his death to
Chronological
List of Compositions (incomplete Double Concerto for violin piano and
orchestra, and transcription of Nielsen's Comotio for piano, four hands).
Added new link to the Havergal Brian Society's web site in
Links.
February 16/17 1999: Added notice of the US
premiere of Simpson's 7th Symphony to the
Concert
Calendar.
January 20/21 1999: Added notice of the death
of Brian Duke, the Membership Secretary, added Angela Simpson to the list
of Vice -Presidents, and changed the contact address for prospective members.
December 29 1998: Added the Hyperion CD of
the
Choral
and
Organ
music to
Recordings.
Old performances deleted from the concert calendar.
October 17 1998: Revised the
Links
section, including links to a new page of links
for Carl Nielsen and
the
FS catalogue.
July 25 1998: Revised the
Concert
Calendar, adding details of the forthcoming performance of the Piano
Concerto at the BBC Proms, and the program of the Robert Simpson Memorial
Concert.
July 12 1998: Added the Element Quartet's CD
of the first three string quartets to
Forthcoming
and Recent Releases and the
String
Quartets section of
Recordings.
June 27 1998: Revised the
Concert
Calendar, adding soloist to details of the forthcoming performance of
the Piano Concerto at the BBC Proms, revised and weeded dead links, added
tribute from Steve Meikle to the
Obituaries
and Tributes page.
May 9 1998: Added notice of the forthcoming
performance of the Piano Concerto at the BBC Proms to the
Concert
Calendar, added links to the details of the Brass music CDs at the Chandos Records site in the
Music
for Brass Ensembles section of
Recordings,
added news of Hyperion's project to record the Flute and Piano Concertos
to
Forthcoming
and Recent Releases, added the videocassette "Carl Nielsen: A Life in 6 Symphonies"
to
Books
and Articles by Simpson.
April 12 1998: Added notice of the forthcoming
Memorial Concert to the
Concert
Calendar, revised
Obituaries
and Tributes page, added section on unfinished works, and Variations
on Happy Birthday, to
Chronological
List of Compositions.