Benshi in Boston, Performances and Symposium

[Schermann Susanne]

Ms. Sawato told me that she will do some benshi narration
in English, too. Will the narration be in English or in
Japanese?

Susanne Schermann

--- "Peter M. Grilli" <grilli at us-japan.org> からのメッセ
ージ：
> Jasper:
> 
> Thank you for reminding Kine-Japaners of your
> interview with Midori Sawato.
> It is excellent!!
> And I urge everyone interested in Japanese silent
> film -- especially those
> in New England who will be seeing Midori Sawato in
> action at several venues
> between April 21 and 24 -- to go back and read itl  
> Once again, the
> interview is available at
> http://www.midnighteye.com/features/silentfilm_pt2.shtml
> 
> How often these days do we have a chance to
> encounter a real benshi in
> action??
> 
> Thanks to the collaboration of Bill Burton at Tufts
> University, Blanche
> Milligan of Northeast Cultural Cooperative, Sarah
> Frederick at Boston
> University, Ted Barron at the Harvard Film Archive,
> the Reischauer Institute
> of Japanese Studies at Harvard, and the Japan
> Society of Boston,  Midori
> Sawato -- Japan's most active benshi -- will soon
> make a number of live
> appearances in Boston, Cambridge, Medford, and
> Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
> Her schedule of performances is:
> 
> April 21, 7:00pm -- The Music Hall Theater, (28
> Chestnut St., Portsmouth
> NH ) -- Ms. Sawato will narrate Ozu's  I Was Born
> But.... (1932)
> 
> April 22, 6:00pm -- Boston Univ. College of
> Communications (640 Commonwealth
> Ave., Boston; Rm B-05 -- Sawato will narrate
> Futagawa's Orochi (1925)
> 
> April 23, 7:00pm -- Tufts Univ. Medford (Tisch
> Library Media Center, Rm.
> 304) -- Sawato will narrate Mizoguchi's -- The Water
> Magician (1933)
>     This screening follows a symposium on Japanese
> silent film at Tufts
> Univ. (Olin Center, Rm. 12), with presentations by
> William Burton, Aaron
> Gerow, Charles Inoue,
>     and Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (3:00-6:00pm)
> 
> April 24, 8:00pm -- Harvard Film Archive, Harvard
> Univ. (24 Quincy St.,
> Cambridge) -- Ms. Sawato will narrate Ozu's I Was
> Born But...  (1925)
> 
> This program is a special event of the Centennial
> Celebration of The Japan
> Society of Boston.  For additional information,
> please visit the Society's
> website at:
> http://www.us-japan.org/boston
> 
> 
> Peter Grilli
> 
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> Peter M. Grilli
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> One Milk Street,  Boston, MA 02109
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> 
> 
> 
> 
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> [mailto:owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu]On
> Behalf Of J.sharp
>   Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 5:41 PM
>   To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>   Subject: Re: Benshi in Boston, Performances and
> Symposium
> 
> 
>   This might be a good time to remind everyone about
> the interview I did
> with Sawato Midori, along with Mike Arnold, about
> two years ago. She's a
> very bubbly and nice person, and shed a lot of light
> onto the early days of
> Japanese cinema for us.
>  
> http://www.midnighteye.com/features/silentfilm_pt2.shtml
> 
>   Jasper Sharp
>   www.midnighteye.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     --------- Original Message --------
>     From: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>     To: "KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu"
> <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
>     Subject: Benshi in Boston, Performances and
> Symposium
>     Date: 14/04/04 15:36
> 
> 
>     Please see the attached flyer for complete
> information about the
> symposium on silent film at to be held at Tufts next
> Friday.  The symposium
> will be followed by a screening of Mizoguchi's The
> Water Magician with live
> benshi narration by Sawato Midori.
> 
> 
>     The symposium is held in conjunction with a
> series of performances by
> Ms. Sawato in the New England area next week (4/21
> Portsmouth, NH; 4/22
> Boston University; 4/23 Tufts; 4/24 Harvard Film
> Archive).  The full
> schedule with contact information can be found at:
> http://www.us-japan.org/boston/
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     SYMPOSIUM "Far From Silent: The Social and
> Artistic Influence of Early
> Japanese Film"
>     APRIL 23/3-6PM At Tufts University, Olin Center
> (Rm. 12)
> 
> 
>     William Burton ・Onoe Matsunosuke, The First
> Great Star of Japanese Film
> 
> 
>     Aaron Gerow ・The Benshi at the Border:
> Narrating the Conflict over
> National Cinema
> 
> 
>     Charles Inoue ・Understanding the Water
> Magician:  Why Must this Woman
> Suffer?
> 
>     Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano - Embodying the Modern
> Girl on the Japanese Silent
> Screen
> 
> 
>     For information contact William Burton,
> William.burton at tufts.edu
> 
> --
> 
>     Sarah Frederick
>     Assistant Professor of Japanese
>     Department of Modern Foreign Languages and
> Literatures
>     Boston University
> 
> 
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