| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 27-Aug-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 59: The Broadway Sound with the John Wilson Orchestra |
 On entering Door One at the Royal Albert Hall and seeing top hats, tails and tap shoes clustered in a doorway, it was time to prepare for an evening of ‘The Broadway Sound’. Given the stature of the internationally renowned John Wilson and his handpicked orchestra, they were undoubtedly going to impress in a live performance – and sure enough, an opening of sweeping strings intermittently punctuated with punchy brass chords blew the audience across the Atlantic to the Broadway stage in Gershwin’s Overture to Funny Face, which opened the concert.
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| 14-Jul-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 2: Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady |
 John Wilson and his orchestra are something of a modern-day Proms legend, having received rave reviews for last year’s “Hooray for Hollywood” and for the Rodgers & Hammerstein Prom in 2010. Nostalgia is fashionable, and Wilson knows it, but he is not content to rest on his laurels. Last night, he and his hand-picked musicians, together with a superb cast, made a welcome return to the Royal Albert Hall for a justifiably sold-out performance of Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady.
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