Sep 7
9月7日
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
About the Program
There are some movies whose plots we may have long forgotten, yet the moment the theme song plays, the memories come flooding back.
In recent years, a series of digitally restored classic Taiwanese films have returned to the big screen, allowing people of different generations to revisit the cities, lifestyles, and people of the past. New films also continually look back at history, reinterpreting past stories through a contemporary lens. Film has thus become a vessel for memory, and the soundtrack is often the part that most easily lingers in people’s hearts.
Violinist Tom Su has always believed that music should not be confined to concert halls. He devotes much of his time to community activities and performs in hospitals and other settings where people go about their daily lives, bringing music to diverse audiences.
Through 12 film scores and 12 segments of cinematic memories, Tom Su will take the audience on a journey through the classic films that once captured the hearts of the Taiwanese people, allowing us to rediscover the stories that once moved us.
Song List:
What a Wonderful World - Good Morning, Vietnam
Let It Go - Frozen
Golden - KPop Demon Hunters
The Dark Slumber of the Fog - A Foggy Tale
Till We Meet Again - Sunshine Women's Choir
Happiness Is Singing - Sunshine Women's Choir
Your Name Engraved Herein - Your Name Engraved Herein
What's on Your Mind - My Best Friend's Breakfast
Those Years - You Are the Apple of My Eye
Red Scarf - Till We Meet Again
Castle in the Sky - Castle in the Sky
Summer - Kikujiro
The Dull-Ice Flower - The Dull-Ice Flower
Tom Su is a classically trained violinist and dedicated community volunteer based in Greater Vancouver. A former immigrant from Taiwan, he brings heartfelt music into the lives of terminally ill children, dementia patients, and seniors in long-term care through his performances at hospitals and care facilities. He also shares his violin online—especially during the pandemic—to reach and soothe those in need via YouTube. Inspired by his father’s values, Tom blends artistry with compassion, creating moments of deep human connection through music.
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TAIWANfest Vancouver is grateful to be held on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). We acknowledge our privilege to be gathered here, and commit to work with and be respectful to the Indigenous peoples of this land while we engage in meaningful conversations of culture and reconciliation.