Wes Phillips

As I was scrolling through the offerings at TDF a few weeks ago, I spotted a performance by the McCollough Sons of Thunder Brass Band. Hmmm, I thought I remembered my old friend Michael Cogswell mentioning to me that I ought to check them out. Actually, what he told me was that if I was ever able to hear them, I should cancel everything I could be doing and hie myself hence at oncely.

May Pang spills">http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article… the beans about her relationship with John Lennon.

In my first job in New York, my boss walked into my office one morning with a folded sheet of paper and a pained expression on his face. I asked him, "What's that?"

The Melbourne Symphony plays music on VB bottles. My kind of musc.

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I was eating tagine with John Atkinson and Cantus' Erick Lichte a few nights ago and mentioned having read Anne Midgette's essay about her antipathyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/21/AR20080…; towards Brahms.

This is just so wrong, it's right.

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