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| Bruce Calvert... |
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Ben Model will play for the film
DE LUXE ANNIE, Beta SP, b&w, 76 minutes
Directed by Roland West, 1918
Starring: Norma Talmadge, Eugene O’Brien, Frank Mills, Edna Hunter,
Fred R. Santon, Joseph Burke, Edward Davis, Harriet Jenkins, David
Burns
Based upon the play DE LUXE ANNIE (1918) by Edward Clark, the wife of
a wealthy man develops amnesia after a blow to her head. Unwittingly,
she becomes the partner with the band of crooks, who were attempting
to rob her husband.
Ben Model has been a silent film pianist at the Museum of Modern Art
for nearly a quarter of a century. He grew up watching silent films
and learned his scoring craft from master film organist Lee Erwin. In
2006 he co-curated the two-month Roscoe Arbuckle retrospective. Ben
has accompanied films in Norway, and throughout the United States at
festivals, museums and universities. His recorded scores can be heard
on REEL BASEBALL, SLAPSTICK 2 and the recently released HOUDINI DVD
sets.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Sylvia Moscovitz will play for the film
THE NEW MOON, Beta SP, b&w, 61 minutes
Directed by Chester Wihey, 1919
Starring: Norma Talmadge, Pedro de Cordoba, Charles Gerard, Stuart
Holmes, Marc McDermott, Ethel Kaye, Harry Sothern, Marguerite Clayton
THE NEW MOON is an original story by H.H.Van Loan, about the then-
recent Russian Revolution. At her engagement ball a Princess escapes
the Bolsheviks. Then disguised as a shopkeeper she remains safe until
a Lenin-like dictator, proclaims that all women between the ages of 17
and 32 must register as prostitutes of the state.
Sylvia Moscovitz is a Montreal resident and Company Pianist for Les
Grandes Ballets Canadiens. It was here that she developed her strong
appreciation for the link between music and movement. She has created
scores for silent films at the Cinematheque Quebecoise, the
Association of Moving Image Archivists and the Library of Congress
Film Preservation tour. In addition she has composed music for Sesame
Street and several National Film Board of Canada films.
Thursday, July 16, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Philip Carli will play for
SMILIN’ THROUGH, Beta SP, b&w, 96 minutes
Directed by Sidney Franklin, 1922
Starring: Norma Talmadge, Harrison Ford, Glenn Hunter, Alec B.
Francis, Grace Griswold, Miriam Battista, Eugene Lockhart
SMILIN’ THROUGH is the first of three filmic version of Allan Langdon
Martin’s 1919 play. On her wedding day, a bride is inadvertently
killed. Twenty years later the niece of the groom, learns to his
horror that she has fallen in love with the son of the rejected
suitor. The film was later remade twice under the same title in 1932
with Norma Shearer in the Norma Talmadge role and again in 1941
starring Jeanette MacDonald.
Philip Carli has accompanied silent films since his junior high school
days, applying operatic principles and styles learned in libraries and
pit orchestras around the world and from acoustical recordings that he
collected while working on his doctoral research. He received his
Doctorate in Silent Film Scoring from the Eastman School of Music. He
is resident accompanist at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New
York and the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Sacile, Italy and has toured
extensively throughout North America and Europe.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Makia Matsumura will play for the film
ASHES OF VENGEANCE, Beta SP, b&w, 111 minutes
Directed by Frank Lloyd, 1923
Starring: Norma Talmadge, Conway Tearle, Wallace Beery, Josephine
Crowell, Betty Francisco, Claire McDowell, Courtenay Foote, Howard
Truesdell, Forrest Robinson, James Cooley, Boyd Irwin, Winter Hall,
Andre de Beranger
ASHES OF VENGEANCE, A ROMANCE OF OLD FRANCE, is based upon the novel
of H.B.Somerville (1914). Catherine de Medici launches an
extermination of the French Huguenots, thereby setting off a reign of
terror. A Protestant count’s life is spared, but he is made the
indentured servant to his catholic enemy. At the castle, the servant
falls in love with the sister of his political-religious rival.
Makia Matsumura is a New York City resident and a graduate of Tokyo
National University of Fine Arts and Music, and the Julliard School of
Music. Since the age of twelve she had performed her original music
extensively in and outside of Japan. Makia has appeared in such
divergent fields as soundtrack to concert music, pops or jazz to
classical, electric to acoustic, music clubs to symphony halls. This
winter she accompanied silent films at the Cinefest Film Festival.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Bernie Anderson will play for the film
THE LADY, Beta SP, b&w, 90 minutes
Directed by Frank Borzage, 1925
Starring: Norma Talmadge, Wallace MacDonald, Brandon Hurst, Alf
Goulding, Doris Lloyd, Walter Lord, George Hackathorne, Marc
McDermott, Emily Fitzroy, Paulette Duval, John Fox Jr., Margaret
Seddon, Edwin Hubbell
THE LADY is based upon Martin Brown’s 1923 play of the same name. In
Victorian London an English Music Hall singer falls in love and
marries the feckless son of a nobleman. Disinherited by the father,
the pair travels to Monte Carlo, where the wife is abandoned in favor
of a new mistress. If any silent film with major nitrate damage can be
considered lucky, it is THE LADY. For while a whole reel of the film
has totally decomposed, it does not interrupt the plotline of the
film. The film was later remade as THE SECRET OF MADAME BLANCHE (1933)
with Irene Dunne in the Norma Talmadge role.
Bernie Anderson is a graduate of Montclair State University, and New
York University Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. A recipient
of American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers’ Frederick
Lowe Award, Bernie has created the orchestrations for THE GIRL IN THE
FRAME, which was presented last season at the Goodspeed Opera House.
He has worked alongside orchestrator Douglas Besterman, and studies
with the noted silent film accompanist Lee Erwin.
Bruce Calvert
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