I’ve started a writing project entitled “Cantara Christopher Gives Her Beloved Conductor John Wilson Crib Notes on Todd Field’s Screen Masterpiece, Tár: Love, Teshuvah, and Filipinos Will Save Classical Music (PDF)” and for this I’m going to have to go deep, so no new blog postings for a week or two.
I will, however, obsess at this time over John’s manly jewelry, mostly his lucky watch (given him by Austin son-of-Eric Coates, author of Rizal: Philippine Nationalist and Martyr) and his lucky cufflinks which, thanks to John’s latest interview in The Stage, I now know to be a gift from the widow of music critic and Barbirolli chum, Michael Kennedy.
- Find his cufflinks here: “My Beloved Conductor John Wilson and His Hottest Recordings for Chandos, Plus a Few of His Signature Tunes Recorded with The John Wilson Orchestra”
- And his watch here: “Of Leonor Rivera, Novelist and Martyr of My People Jose Rizal’s Long-Distance Love; My Own Long-Distance Love, English Conductor John Wilson; Eric Coates; and A Song by Rodgers and Hammerstein”
"I'll Be Dead Before You Break My Heart" 