Miscellaneous: Subtitles for a Documentary

I'd forgotten about this, but came across it again recently. In 2016, I did a small job writing the English subtitles for a short, six-minute documentary about a man in Tokyo who has been selling fish for 50 years. It's well worth watching again. 

https://vimeo.com/175922118  

Music I'm Listening to: Joshua Bell with the San Francisco Symphony

I attended the Friday, April 28 San Francisco Symphony concert at Davies Symphony Hall. Featured was Joshua Bell performing the Sibelius violin concerto. On the whole, I've never been a particular fan of Bell's recordings (with the exception of his recording of Corigliano's 'The Red Violin Concerto'; he tends to pick more overtly romantic music than I like and he can sometimes use a bit more vibrato than I care for), but I've heard him live now four times in San Francisco, once with him leading the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and three times as a soloist, and I've been impressed every time. He made the very challenging Sibelius concerto seem effortless and clearly the guest conductor, Dalia Stasevska (currently chief conductor of Lahti Symphony Orchestra) really understands Sibelius.

The program began with a short, relentlessly dynamic composition by Anna Meredith called 'Nautilus' originally written as a piece of electronic music (here transcribed for orchestra), and finished, after the violin concerto and intermission, with Sibelius's 'Symphony No. 2'. After the concerto, Bell played a duet for two violins by Shostakovich, joined by the evening's concertmaster, Wyatt Underhill, as an encore. It was a very full house – the fullest I've seen at Davies Symphony Hall since the pandemic. Both the Sibelius pieces received unreserved, much deserved, standing ovations.