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Willie's Wine Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Went to John Wilson's favourite Australians last night with BE as described here , organised by John McDonnell from Wine Australia. We had a fun time and managed to try 31 of the 70 wines which ranged in price from €7-99 for a Michelton Thomas Mitchel Marsanne to an eye watering €200 odd for a 2001 Penfold's Grange. The wines were divided up into sections (loosely) by...
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X1 News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... over familiar A47 roads when pressed into X1 duties. Last used on August 18th 2009. Many thanks to John for providing this potted history of three old stagers.
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tbirdnow.mee.nu (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Jack Kemp Well I couldn't have written this, but it makes a lot of sense to me. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/less_of_catholic_3X9hW1BqyuKsbEX38FlVbK#ixzz0YD9eL6yC Less of a CatholicWhy Rep. Kennedy is wrong By JOHN WILSON News broke this week that Thomas Tobin, the Catholic bishop of Providence, RI, had in 2007 asked Rep. Patrick Kennedy to refrain from receiving...
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Culture Chat (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... and of course the Phil will be transporting a little bit of Beatles magic to our twin city with John Wilson conducting the popular John Lennon Songbook concert. All very exciting and a very, very busy year of touring for the Phil in 2010. They're already spending a week in Switzerland in March and there is talk of going to La Coruna in Spain in August to take part in a performance...
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The Land of Lost Content (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... Sextet and was not heard again on disc until the 1988 recording by the BBC Concert Orchestra under John Wilson on ASV . A short extract of the earlier recording can be heard on Amazon . A decade later the piece was recorded by Andrew Penny and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra on the Marco Polo Label. It has since been transferred to the Naxos label. (Scroll through to find the...