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	The Music of Robert Simpson
		This page is dedicated to bringing the compositions of the symphonist Robert Simpson to the attention of a wider public.
		The radio station of Harvard University,WHRB (95.3 FM and streaming on the Internet at www.whrb.org), will be broadcasting a two-day tribute to Robert Simpson to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death, including all the recorded pieces in chronological order.
		The Hyperion recording of the 11th Symphony and Variations on a theme by Carl Nielsen was released in August 2004, see Forthcoming and Recent Releases.
	members.aol.com /dmlovelock/simpson.htm (397 words)

	Robert Simpson (composer)
		Robert (Wilfred Levick) Simpson (March 2, 1921 - December 21, 1997) was an English musicologist and composer best known for his symphonies and string quartets.
		Robert Simpson is said to have written and destroyed four Symphonies (one of which even used serial procedures) before his first published Symphony.
		Simpson was still interested in the idea of writing for just one listener, so he talked with Dorrell to get an idea of what kind of Symphony he'd like to hear.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/r/ro/robert_simpson__composer_.html (711 words)

	Robert Simpson (composer)
		Robert (Wilfred Levick) Simpson (March 2, 1921 andndash; November 21, 1997) was an English composer and long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster.
		Simpson's Symphony No.5 (1972), in five movements played without a break, is dominated by an enigmatic 6-note chord which, according to the composer, is meant to represent "the part of the mind that is always watching you, no matter what sort of experiences you're having".
		This work, composed 1985-87 and held by some to be the summit of Simpson's symphonic achievement, is in a single monumental movement and in one basic pulse, though it encompasses an opening section in chorale-prelude style, a big Beethovenian scherzo, and a concluding set of variations on a palindromic theme.
	www.kiwipedia.com /robert-simpson--composer-.html (2143 words)

	Century Composer Eight Music Writings
		Robert Simpson (composer) - Robert (Wilfred Levick) Simpson (March 2, 1921 - November 21, 1997) was an English composer and long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster.
		Composers philosophy, and anthropology, set the stage for the twentieth-century reader, is illustrated with lithographs and drawings from Berlioz's lifetime.
		Composer John Kander and Ebb provide a history not only of their first musical: an untested nineteen year-old named Liza Minnelli (who writes of this experience in her introduction).
	vi24.mndine.com /centurycomposereightmusicwritings.html (1035 words)

	Classical Net Review - Robert Simpson - Symphonies #3 & 5
		But, as Simpson is fond of saying: "It doesn't matter if you can't tell B Flat from a rissole" – you have to hear the tumultuous momentum he generates from this outwardly simple plan.
		With the second movement the underlying inspiration was the music of nature itself: I recall hearing Simpson explain in a radio broadcast how he threw open the bedroom window of his house, deep in the English countryside, as dawn was breaking and was fascinated by the growing energy expressed in the dawn chorus.
		Indeed, although the trappings of Simpson's music simply easily enough assimilated, this is a work that asks a tremendous amount of its listeners – I left the hall after Davis' 1982 performance, my first encounter with the piece, with shoulders so stiff with the tension of it all that they hurt for days.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/h/hyp66728a.html (1239 words)

	Robert Simpton Interview . . . . .
		Robert Simpson was born on March 2, 1921 in Leamington Spa, England.
		Robert served in a mobile surgical unit during World War II as a conscientious objector, while studying music with Herbert Howells.
		The Robert Simpson Society was founded in 1980 with the distinguished Danish composer Vagn Holmboe as President until his death in 1996, when John McCabe accepted the Society's invitation to lead it.
	www.bruceduffie.com /simpson.html (4687 words)

	Classical music: Robert Simpson
		Robert Simpson, author, musicologist and composer, died nine years ago this month.
		He produced a steady stream of quartets and symphonies over the years, few of which were heard in regular performance, but some of the fifteen quartets and all of the eleven symphonies were recorded by the enterprising Hyperion Company.
		There is a Robert Simpson Society and their commitment has helped to honour his work and to keep him in the public mind.
	www.euroresidentes.com /Blogs/classical_music/2006/11/robert-simpson_20.html (341 words)

	JEFFERSON AWARD: Presented to Thomas Robert Simpson / Arts to educate, inspire, provoke
		Simpson, a former psychologist and longtime arts advocate, founded the AfroSolo Arts Festival, a showcase for local and internationally renowned artists in the fl community, 13 years ago.
		Simpson said his main focus is to provide a forum for talented Bay Area artists such as Robert Henry Johnson (choreographer, dancer and playwright), Alan Kimara Dixon (photographer), Stephanie Johnson (visual arts) and Jacqueline B. Hairston (composer/arranger).
		Simpson, 54, was born and raised in a predominantly fl community in Nashville.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/10/15/LVGGQLLTMA1.DTL&type=printable (1148 words)

	Robert Simpson (composer) - Definition, explanation
		Robert (Wilfred Levick) Simpson (March 2, 1921 - November 21, 1997) was an English musicologist and composer best known for his symphonies and string quartets.
		His father, Robert Warren Simpson, was British; his mother, Helena Hendrika Govaars, was Dutch.
		He married Bessie Fraser in 1946; she died in 1981 and he married Angela Musgrave, a relative of fellow composer Thea Musgrave, in 1982.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/r/ro/robert_simpson__composer_.php (862 words)

	Composer Page - Robert Simpson
		Robert Simpson was born in Leamington, England, in 1921.
		During his years with the BBC he championed the music of many composers, but in particular he was a strong advocate of Bruckner and Nielsen, both of whom have had an important influence on Simpson's own work.
		Hyperion has recorded the first ten of Simpson's symphonies and, under the auspices of The Robert Simpson Society, all of the string quartets, both string quintets, the complete piano music and numerous other chamber works.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /composer_page.asp?name=simpson-r (1411 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Simpson - Symphony 9: Music: Robert Simpson,Vernon Handley,Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is interesting that the rediscovery of tonality, and fresh interest in composing symphonies, that seems to have been a feature of the classical music of the new century may well now be proving him right (think of Jimmy McMillan).
		This disc is arguably Simpson's final word on the matter - his finest symphony, coupled with a fascinating 15-minute bonus of Bob Simpson's own analysis of the work, narrated by the man himself.
		Simpson was, in my humble opinion, the greatest composer of the second half of the twentieth century.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Simpson-Symphony-9-Robert/dp/B000002ZKW (1108 words)

	Nordic/Scandinavian Composers - NPRN Composer of the Month
		Carl Nielsen was born in 1865 on the island of Fyn (known as Funen in English; the largest city on the island is Odense) in Denmark, the seventh in a brood of twelve children.
		Their life together was at once stimulating and frustrating-they were both intensely artistic and devoted to the further development of their skills in that realm.
		As Robert Simpson, one of Nielsen's most ardent and influential champions, has put it: "Nielsen is one of those rare individuals who know the shortest rout to the truth."
	net.unl.edu /musicFeat/composer/cmnordicnielsen.html (1941 words)

	Sibelius — Finland's voice in the world — Virtual Finland
		If the 1890s had seen the consolidation of his position as Finland's leading composer, the next decade was to see the growth of his international reputation.
		Robert Layton was a senior member of the BBC's music staff from 1959 to 1990.
		Robert Layton is also the English translator of Erik Tawaststjerna's five-volume biography of Sibelius.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/sibelius.html (3403 words)

	HNH - Naxos Classical
		Twenty years ago, the composer Robert Simpson, no mean symphonist himself, resigned from the BBC to publish a scathing polemic, The Proms & Natural Justice, attacking the corporation's abuse of its powers of musical patronage.
		Simpson called for greater participation in the programming of the Proms, arguing that the season should reflect the best of the most, rather than the narrow preferences of an overweening individual.
		Williamson was once an establishment darling, with seven symphonies and operas to his name by the age of 53.
	www.naxos.com /newDesign/fopinions.files/bopinions.files/opinions75.htm (753 words)

	Robert E Simpson
		Robert Simpson (store founder) - Robert Simpson (16 or 17 September, 1834 â“ December 14, 1897) was the founder of Simpson's Department Store.
		Bob Simpson (cricketer) - Robert ("Bob") Baddeley Simpson (born February 3 1936 in Sydney, Australia) is a cricketer who played first-class cricket for New South Wales and Western Australia as well as Test cricket for Australia.
		Simpson, Robert - Simpson, Robert (1921-1997) Includes biography, catalog of works, discography, bibliography, and calendar of performances.
	therexsys.com /Robert-E-Simpson.html (1095 words)

	Music Giants of the North, Part One - Robert R. Reilly
		Robert R. Reilly's second part of his article on English music appears in the August 1990 issue of The World & I. The abundance of first-rate instrumental music composed by Scandinavians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is, mysteriously, a secret to most music lovers.
		The English composer Robert Simpson speculates that the late arrival of the Northern Lights was because "culture began in the sun" and that only nineteenth-century advances in technology brought the harsh life in Scandinavia to a level of cultural leisure wherein music could be pursued.
		Whatever the truth of this may be, Scandinavian music is drenched in an elemental feel for the forces of nature, in both their destructive and uplifting guises.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1990/july/Sa17481.htm (310 words)

	Classical CD Reviews- Mar 1999 The Proms & Natural Justice Robert Simpson : Music on the Web (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In this important and provocative book Robert Simpson, for nearly thirty years a BBC Music Producer scrutinised the methods by which the Proms were planned.
		Nevertheless, Simpson's thesis is still relevant, despite the enormous changes that have taken place within that (still) angst-ridden bureaucratic organisation.
		He felt the only logical way to give the Proms the flair that a single imagination can provide without the otherwise inevitable long-term imbalances affecting both composers and performers would be to appoint a separate planner of the Proms with a limited tenure of four or five years.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/Apr99/proms.htm (613 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Simpson - Symphony No 11: Music: Robert Simpson,Matthew Taylor,City of London Sinfonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The symphony is an intriguing work, which while clearly influenced by Beethoven, Sibelius, occupies its own individual sound and rhythmic world, large scale yet rhymically taut, and with an enigmatic quality, which the ending in particular brings out.
		The Nielson Variations are a lot of fun, so an entertaining cd all round, and one that made me regret that Simpson did not live to complete his projected final choral symphony.
		Still there are 8 previous symphonies (and a stack of quartets) to explore, all on Hyperion, who on this cd are well up to their usual high standards of presentation and audio quality.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Simpson-Symphony-No-11-Robert/dp/B0002JEJQU (449 words)

	Music Giants of the North - The World and I Magazine
		Robert R. Reilly is a contributor to Musical America and a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council.
		The abundance of first-rate instrumental music composed by Scandanavians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is, mysteriously, a secret to most music lovers.
		One way of comparing and appreciating the masters together is with the excellent CBS issue (MK 44548) of the Sibelius and Nielsen violin concertos played by Cho-Liang Lin and the Philharmonia Orchestra (in the Sibelius) and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (in the Nielsen), both conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1990/july/ar2.cfm (1727 words)

	Edward Elgar/ Anthony Payne :: NMC Recordings Ltd Shop
		Elgar's complete sketches for the Third Symphony, exactly as the composer left them, are brought to...
		Elgar died in 1934 leaving behind the sketches for a 4-movement symphony; the Elgar family's decisio...
		NMC's fourth sampler, featuring excerpts from music by 28 composers
	nmc.greedbag.com /composer/edward-elgar-ant (79 words)

	Simpson
		Simpson is the name of some places in the United States of America including
		Simpson is also the name of a place in the United Kingdom
		In Eric Ambler's novel The Light of Day (filmed as Topkapi), the protagonist's name is Arthur Abdel Simpson (played by Peter Ustinov in the movie).
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/s/si/simpson.html (144 words)

	Music
		The Chandos CD presents Gerber's Symphony No. 1, Viola Concerto, Triple Overture, and Dirge and Awakening, all of them composed during the 1990s, except for the symphony, which was completed in 1989.
		The discovery is all the more surprising when one considers that Gerber trained under Milton Babbitt, one of the high priests of Schoenberg's "coterie of twelve-notery," as it was called by British composer Robert Simpson.
		While that may sound condescending, it is intended as a tribute to a masterly composer who is bold enough and confident enough in his materials to write transparently.
	www.crisismagazine.com /october2001/music.htm (1324 words)

	Crisis Magazine
		The Hyperion label has brought to a close its magnificent traversal of British composer Robert Simpson’s eleven symphonies with its issue of the Symphony No. 11, coupled with the Variations on a Theme by Nielsen.
		Of course, Carl Nielsen’s influence permeates Simpson’s work, so it is especially fascinating to hear what he does with one of Nielsen’s themes in a set of variations that display everything from humor (not a frequent element in Simpson’s work), drama, and his characteristic skill at contrapuntal writing and the projection of orchestral power.
		Like most composers his age, Godfrey was raised with twelve-tone music and dabbled in Webern.
	www.crisismagazine.com /february2005/music.htm (1173 words)

	Symphonies - Carl Nielsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Like the previous one, it also has dramatic use of percussion: at one point in the first movement the snare drummer is instructed to improvise as if at all costs to stop the progress of the orchestra.
		Even Robert Simpson was at first confused by Nielsens Symphony No. 6 (Nielsen).
		For instance, the second movement is only scored for nine instruments of the orchestra: piccolo, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, trombone and percussion.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Adachi5441/carl-nielsen-symphonies.html (272 words)

	Composers Datebook: 2/26/01-3/02/01
		1810 — Polish composer and pianist Frederick Chopin in Zelazowa Wola near Warsaw, Poland (March 1, 1810 was the birth date given by the composer himself in a letter dated 1833, and is traditionally accepted as such; his certificate of baptism, however, says he may have actually been born on Feb. 22, 1810);
		1939 — Cuban composer Leo Brower in Havana;.
		1824 — Czech composer Bedrich Smetana, in Leitomischi, Bohemia;
	composersdatebook.publicradio.org /listings/datebook_20010226.shtml (416 words)

	Classical Net - Timeline of Composers
		The following list presents some 1100 composers arranged into a timeline based purely on their date of birth.
		The divisions simply break the list up into more manageable sections, and serve as a reminder as to what "period" the composer may be associated with.
		Any individual composer, especially on the boundaries, may be misclassified.
	www.classical.net /music/composer/dates/comp9.html (380 words)

	Robert Simpson: Symphony No. 11; Variations on a Theme by Carl Nielsen: MusicNear.com
		Robert Simpson: Symphony No. 11; Variations on a Theme by Carl Nielsen: MusicNear.com
		Robert Simpson: Symphony No. 11; Variations on a Theme by Carl Nielsen
		This CD is wonderful by the way and if you haven't sampled Simpson start with the Hyperion CD featuring #s 3&5.
	www.musicnear.com /Robert-Simpson-Symphony-No-11-Variations-on-a-Theme-by-Carl-Nielsen-B0002JEJQU.htm (308 words)

	"Streetscape" by Charles Coleman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Composer Charles Coleman was born in New York City in 1968 and has lived there all his life.
		After receiving his Masters degree in 1993, he joined the New York- based Absolute Ensemble and, under music director Kristjan Järvi, took part in their innovative synthesis of old and new music and becoming their official Composer-in-Residence in 1997.
		Coleman is a 1994-95 recipient of the Meet The Composer Grant and the Jerome Foundation Composer's Forum Grant.
	www.home.earthlink.net /~sandrikasaw/charles.html (511 words)

	Matthias's Musical Reviews: Hyperion Records
		Rodion Shchedrin is not a familiar name, though he is one of the most recent generations of composer who have attempted t combine the role of concert pianist and composer into one.
		It was written, according to Robert Simpson, with a few express people in mind who he knew would be in the audience, much like the Haydn symphonies of earlier centuries.
		Simpson shows that he understands these concepts very well, for the Eighth is a darker work, filled with violence and rage.
	transform.to /~mattyrat/review/hyperion.html (1941 words)

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