Wilson's interest in historical film scores has led to his restoring a number of classic film scores and he is currently reconstructing the orchestrations of all the major MGM musicals, especially those by Conrad Salinger.[1] Many of the original film scores were destroyed by MGM in 1969, and left only the short scores or piano scores, from which Wilson used as a guide when reconstructing. He described in an interview that “transcribing music from the soundtrack is an incredibly laborious process and sometimes it’s very, very slow going. The cyclone sequence from The Wizard Of Oz took forever. I remember spending a whole Sunday doing three or four seconds worth of music, so complex is that scene, with notes flying all over the page!” [2] In 2004 Wilson was appointed the music director for the Hollywood feature film Beyond the Sea, a biopic of the life of Bobby Darin starring Kevin Spacey. In 2007 he conducted a BBC Proms concert of British film music, followed in 2009 by a celebration of MGM Musicals, and made a further appearance in the 2010 Proms celebrating Rodgers and Hammerstein.[3] He made a further Proms appearance in the 2011 season, entitled "Hooray for Hollywood", featuring his orchestra with the Maida Vale Singers and soloists. In 2012 he and his orchestra made another two performances at the BBC Proms. The first performance was a complete reconstruction of My Fair Lady which was broadcast on radio,[4] the second was a tribute to the composers and arrangers of "The Broadway Sound" shown on BBC Two.