Gorgonzola, Milan Gorgonzola, Milan Gorgonzola ( ) is an Italian town of c. 20,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy. It is part of the territory of the Martesana, north-east of Milan. The town gives its name to the famous cheese gorgonzola. The first written records mentioning the village of Gorgonzola back to the tenth century: it seems that the notary clerk of the convent of Saint Ambrose in Milan was the caretaker of the church of Saints Gervasio and Protasio in "Gorgontiola". In 453 the church, located in the current suburb of Gorgonzola, was attacked by the Huns who
Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks Richard Steinetz. "Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks", written in 1997, was commissioned from Nyman by the English Sinfonia. The work he gave them is a five-movement orchestral work based on the "String Quartet No. 4", which in turn was based on the solo violin work, "Yamamoto Perpetuo". The title is derived from the name of the town of Stevenage, where the Sinfonia moved in 1997. The Anglo-Saxon name of the town, "Sithenaece" means "Strong on Oaks." Nyman then took a cue from Tony Blair's campaign slogan (in fact coined by Gordon Brown), "Tough on Crime, Tough