{"id":6887,"date":"2020-01-16T04:05:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T04:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/?p=6887"},"modified":"2020-01-16T04:05:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T04:05:53","slug":"an-armenian-odyssey-tribute-to-rouben-mamoulian-love-me-tonight-followed-by-excerpts-from-porgy-and-bess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/?p=6887","title":{"rendered":"An Armenian Odyssey: Tribute to Rouben Mamoulian: Love Me Tonight followed by excerpts from Porgy and Bess"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>March 14, 2020 at 2:00 p.m.<br> East Building Auditorium<br>National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armenian Rouben Mamoulian was born in  the Georgian capital of Tiflis and trained at the Moscow Art Theater  under Eugene Vakhtangov. Arriving in New York after stints in Paris and  London, he fashioned a newly integrated musical theater, directing a  dramatized version of Edwin DuBose Heyward\u2019s novel <em>Porgy<\/em> and George Gershwin\u2019s operatic <em>Porgy and Bess<\/em>, followed by <em>Oklahoma!<\/em> and<em> Carousel<\/em>. As a Hollywood film visionary, Mamoulian relentlessly experimented, and his<em> Love Me Tonight<\/em>  is a singular \u201cmusical film,\u201d a send-up of the film musicals of Ernst  Lubitsch. With its Rodgers and Hart score, the delightful fantasy  (starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, and Myrna Loy) uses  lyrics to advance the storytelling while camera shots and sounds  together take on the beat.&nbsp;(Rouben Mamoulian, 1932, 35mm, 104 minutes)&nbsp;<em>Commentary by Joseph Horowitz, Milena Oganesyan, and Kurt Jensen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nga.gov\/calendar\/film-programs\/armenian-odyssey.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/www.nga.gov\/calendar\/film-programs\/armenian-odyssey.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 14, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. East Building AuditoriumNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Armenian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6890,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887\/revisions\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}