Fand Music Press: Site Changes

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This page keeps a detailed record of changes made to this Web site. Although anyone is welcome to read it, it’s intended primarily for Fand’s own private use. If you have ended up on this page by accident, you can switch back to the public news page by clicking the Latest News button.

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	6th April 2024, 5:51:22 pm	Easter (April) additions (supplementary) Updated the Girl Friday for easy piano page with last-minute musical corrections. Added an audio rendition (synthetic) of Girl Friday. Added a pair of little LiveWire award logos to the head of the news page. Clicking them goes to the award page about Fand.
	3rd April 2024, 9:00:09 pm	Easter (April) additions Added three new publications to the catalogue: an arrangement of Carey Blyton’s Girl Friday for easy piano by John Mitchell and Peter Thompson; and Peter Thompson’s Labyrinth for orchestra and Ventimiglia for voice and piano. Added a recording and video for Labyrinth and a couple of review comments taken from YouTube. Added links between the original Girl Friday and the easy piano version pages. Added the first new Friends of Fand news item for quite some time (27th April 2024 concert). Added an extra picture (a caricature) to the selection of composer page images for M. S. Sharifian. Added a previously overlooked text attribution for A. C. Swinburne to Hope and Fear (both versions).
	11th March 2024, 4:13:34 pm	Corporate LiveWire Global Awards Music Publishing Company of the Year Fand is Music Publishing Company of the Year 2023–24, according to the Corporate LiveWire Global Awards. Added a news story dedicated to this, and added the new award title to the head of the News section.
	12th November 2023, 4:47:24 pm	November additions Added five new publications to the catalogue: John Mitchell’s Secret Joys, Adrian Williams’ Three Piano Pieces for Eugene and three orchestral scores by Carey Blyton: Commuter Special, Valse Musette and Girl Friday. Added audio for Peter Thompson’s Symphony no 3 (both individual movements and the whole symphony as a single audio file), and adjusted the quoted timings to be more similar to this recording. Along similar lines, added audio (both whole-work and individual movements) for ’Cello Concertino. For completeness, also added the whole-work audio for Symphony no 1, Symphony no 2 and Symphony no 4 to supplement the separate movements that were already present. Similarly, added whole-work audio for Five Elegiac Fragments. Added links to Peter’s own videos for Symphony no 1 and Three November Poems. Added audio for Philip Mead’s The Nightingale.
	8th October 2023, 4:32:57 pm	October additions Added Peter Thompson’s ’Cello Concertino and its piano reduction to the catalogue. Note for the eagle-eyed: although the two covers appear superficially identical, they actually use different versions of the same painting by the same artist (Carl Holsøe). The ’cello that appears on the cover of the full orchestral score is absent from the piano reduction!
	13th August 2023, 7:35:10 pm	Sheet Music Publisher of the Year for the second time Added Adrian Williams’ Soliloquy for Piano to the catalogue. Fand is Sheet Music Publisher of the Year again, for the second year running! Added a news splash about this, and updated the Welcome banner at the top of the opening page to show both years.
	21st July 2023, 8:26:01 pm	July additions Published Gary Higginson’s Two Czech Carols; these were added to the catalogue back in February, but have only now finally been released. Added Philip Mead’s The Nightingale to the catalogue. (This is my own setting; the first I’ve done for the best part of a year, since Philip’s Elegiac Melody last August.) Added John Mitchell’s Bright Clouds to the catalogue.
	9th June 2023, 3:24:28 pm	June additions Added Philip Mead’s Ave Maris Stella setting to the catalogue. Added Adrian Williams’ Red Kite Flying to the catalogue. Having discovered that I had omitted text credits for Philip Mead’s Christmas Bells and Qui creavit cælum, I added the missing details.
	5th March 2023, 11:21:10 am	Big Spring update Another delayed update because of my current situation, but at least things continue to progress. Announced Peter Thompson’s Flower Piece, John Mitchell’s Soft Smiling Time (dedicated to me!) and Philip Mead’s Elegiac Melody (the last thing I typeset before my circumstances changed). These were all printed last year and have been hanging around for a while. Also announced Mitchell: Pale Shadows and Thompson: Two Interludes, which have also been hanging around for a while, though not as long as the other three! Rounded off the announcement with the little Bax arrangement of Happy Birthday To You, the second edition of Thompson: In Rutland and Mitchell: Beauty’s Hour, all of which are indeed brand new. Added Peter Thompson’s new videos to the pages for his Capriccio, Symphony no 2 and Symphony no 3. Also added a few new review comments to the two symphonies and to Philip Mead’s Qui creavit cælum. Tidied up the presentation of recent news items in various subtle ways.
	11th January 2023, 4:53:10 pm	YouTube-related corrections A Google report alerted me to the existence of a problem with the video of the first movement of Bax’s Salzburg Sonata. It appears that the old video has been taken down, to be replaced with four new ones covering the whole work. So… added all four videos to present the entire piece. Also added approximate timings, which were not present before. (These will appear online next time I upload database changes.) As a result of finding the new Salzburg Sonata videos, I also found one for The Happy Forest, which didn’t have a recording previously. So, added that video too. There’s also a video for Nympholept, but I haven’t added that one because we have our own Philip Mead performance already.

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	—David Jennings, MusicWeb International (August 2020)

Easter (April) additions (supplementary)

Easter (April) additions

Corporate LiveWire Global Awards Music Publishing Company of the Year

November additions

October additions

Sheet Music Publisher of the Year for the second time

July additions

June additions

Big Spring update

YouTube-related corrections