Latest Updates:

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.

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