Rosemary Hill, a long-standing member and committee member of the RSS, has died on 26 June 2020, following an assault from behind while walking in Reigate, Surrey. In the music world she was also known as the clarinetist Rosemary Few. She was married to the late horn player Ray Few and played at various times in the Yorkshire Symphony, CBSO, Lebanese National Symphony, Ballet Rambert and New Zealand Broadcasting Company Symphony Orchestra. She also had a long teaching career at Reigate Grammar School. She met her second husband after Ray Few’s death in the Robert Simpson Society.

With advances in technology/devices and additional requirements a new website had become necessary.

So this is now a WordPress website extended with a custom plugin for data-driven pages that show RS data: compositions, publishers, discography, journals, reviews and cross references. The old domain robertsimpson.info redirects here until expiry in 2025.

The chronological and categorised composition pages now show expandable details taken from the the Catalogue of Works in Robert Simpson: Composer (2013), ed. J. Schaarwächter. The discography, writings and links pages have been updated. The site has a new header image and better image quality throughout, and is easier to maintain.

Addition pages are:

• TONIC page – journal index and links
• Audio page – recorded talks
• Video page – videos on YouTube
• Contact form – email relay
• History page – article from 1980
• Privacy page – GDPR

This year’s AGM will be held at the home of Professor Lionel Pike.
His address is 34 Alderside Walk, Englefield Green, Egham,Surrey, TW10 0PY

Recorded for Divine Arts in January 2018 with Susan Milan and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. The CD was expected to be issued later this year on DDA 25167 but is now expected for release in 2019.

Two CD set titled “Sir Charles Groves at the Proms” (CRQ CD290-291). An important performance of the 3^rd symphony from the Proms of 21^st August 1967. Other items featured in the set are by Haydn, Walton, Vaughan Williams and Delius.

Allegro Deciso for String Orchestra (1954). A reworking from the 3^rd string quartet. Orchestra of St.Paul’s

Recorded by Lyrita SRCD344 with Raphael Wallfisch and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

The Tippett Quartet play Simpson’s 11^th quartet, along with Mozart’s K387 and Beethoven’s Op. 59 No. 3, on Friday 28^th February 2014, 8pm, at Artrix, the arts centre in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. More details. Map.

Friday 14th Feb 2014, 8:00 pm, The Place, 17 Duke’s Road, London

Set to Robert Simpson’s String Quartet No. 7, The Sob in the Spine explores the complicated relationship between pain and the creative act, asking: are our agonies things that are visited upon us, or are they a manifestation of self?

See details here.

The 2014 AGM is on 14^th February 2014 at 3:00 pm.
Meeting at The Friends’ Meeting House, Euston Road, London.