It started as a little blip on the horizon at the entrance to the port. Hard to tell just exactly what it was: a largish fish or a smallish craft...
As it approached, it became clearer...a little clearer. Imagine getting around a port dodging ships on one of these. As someone who enjoys being out on the water, I've never really been a fan of these little things...they're just like mosquitoes that settle in just as you are trying to sleep.
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| Bzzzzzz |
Later in the evening, it was a trip around the circle line, the Yamanote, to Ueno for a concert by the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony featuring the music of Sibelius. A part of the 100th Anniversary celebrations, it also featured the all-male Finnish Choir from the Polytechnic and while the main program featured Kullervo, a choral symphony, they also performed Finlandia--with the chorus.
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| Tonight's concert hall |
It took me right back to that rainy Saturday in September in Helsinki, to the Music Centre Open Day when I stood outside on the promenade with a hundred or so others, watching a performance on the large screen of Finlandia with choral accompaniment, and joined in by all the Finns there. I might have hummed a bit then. I might have had a little something in my eye tonight at the memory of it.
It made my day, into night.
[Camera : Lumix TZ-85, 3.13pm, 6.35pm; 8 November 2017]
