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"THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE", NARRATED BY AUTHOR HAMPTON SIDES, FEATURES THE NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR'S MANSION - A UNIQUE SHOWCASE OF DIVERSE CULTURES AND RICH HISTORY.

DELVING DEEP INTO JAZZ, DARREN KRAMER PLAYS WITH THE STYLISTIC POSSIBILITIES AND SHARES HOW TO LISTEN LIKE A JAZZ MUSICIAN.

IT'S ALL AHEAD ON COLORES!

A FASCINATING TOUR OF "THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE".

[Nature Sounds] >>Narrator: Welcome to the New Mexico Governor's Mansion.

We are excited to have you visit this home on a virtual tour, touching on a few of the highlights of a building that houses some of the great art, furnishings, and architectural styles that our state is famous for, and that also serves as home of New Mexico's first family.

We refer to the mansion as the Peoples' House because it belongs to the entire state, reflecting New Mexico's famous multicultural heritage and rich history.

Additionally our well-known New Mexican tradition of hospitality is reflected in the building's open concept, stunning views, and welcoming portal.

>>Here in the Southwest a red chili ristra hung by the door to dry is an invitation to table and hearth.

We want this building to be welcoming to everyone.

In a state known for its beauty, art, and culture, we display pieces that reflect all of these strands of our We are excited for you to see how the mansion reflects this fascinating heritage.

And to guide you on your journey through the building, allow us to introduce prize-winning historian Hampton is the author of numerous best-selling works of narrative nonfiction, including Blood and Thunder.

>>Hampton Sides: First occupied in 1955, this is the third governor's residence.

The first governor's residence dates back to 1610 when the city of Santa Fe was founded as the capital of the province of New Spain.

After the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 led to the departure of the Spanish the original building, known as the Palace of the Governors, was under Native American rule for a dozen years.

When the Spanish returned in 1692 and 93 the building remained the Spanish governor's residence until 1821.

It was then the home of the governor of the newly independent Mexico until 1846, the year when New Mexico was annexed by the United States as an official territory.

All told, the Palace of the Governors served as home to various forms of government for nearly three centuries.

During periods of Spanish, Native American, and Mexican rule, and as a US territorial capital and governor's residence until the early 1900s.

The Palace of the Governors was where Lew Wallace, the 10th governor of New Mexico territory, completed his work of historical fiction, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, in 1880.

The second governor's residence was a Greek Revival mansion built in a more traditional style that was partially a reflection of New Mexico's desire to become a state, which occurred in 1912.

The mansion was also famous for its well-tended gardens, where various first ladies grew prize-winning dahlias and other flowers.

>>However a disastrous flood from the nearby river made it unsafe and unlivable by the late 1940s.

In 1955, today's Governor's Mansion, designed by W.C. Kruger was completed on a 30-acre parcel hilltop north of Santa Fe's Plaza, off of Bishops Lodge Road.

This mid-century modern residence was designed to include New Mexico's famous portals, an open concept for the public areas, and plenty of space for art and sculpture.

Governor John F. Simms was the first Chief Executive to reside in the new structure.

As we take you through highlights of today's Governor's Mansion you will see that great care has been taken in developing its style, furnishings, and art to reflect New Mexico's rich cultures.

>>The architectural style is known as Modified Territorial.

It recalls a sprawling hacienda of Spanish Colonial days.

Design elements from the Native American pueblos and the Territorial style developed after New Mexico became a US territory in the mid-1800s.

The foyer is the mansion's reception hall where guests can move freely into the public areas, welcomed by a large rug bearing an image of the state seal.

Visitors received here are immediately drawn to two paintings, emblematic of New Mexico's natural beauty and extraordinary artistic heritage.

Northern New Mexico has attracted many great artists, including one of the most important pioneers of American Modernism, Georgia O'Keeffe.

When she first saw New Mexico in 1917 she wrote to her future husband, New York photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz quote, "I'm out here in New Mexico, going somewhere.

I'm not positive where, but it's great, not like anything I ever saw before."

After visiting New Mexico during numerous summers she moved here permanently in 1949.

The Southwest landscape and nature inspired her and she continued to investigate its imagery for the rest of her life.

Painted in 1945, "Spring Tree #1" is inspired by the many cottonwoods that grew along the river near her home.

"Santa Fe Mountains in October" by Sheldon Parsons is a classic fall landscape of magnificent aspens in the mountains which surround Santa Fe.

Parsons was a prominent New York artist who came to Santa Fe in 1913 to take advantage of the healthy climate, and fell in love with the expansive landscapes of the Southwest.

He helped guide the New Mexico Museum of Art, opened in 1917, whose policy of providing free studio space to professional artists attracted young talent from the East, Midwest, and even Europe.

The foyer is also home to the oldest pieces of furniture in the mansion.

Known as campaign tables, tables of this type featured folding legs that were originally designed for military use when traveling during a campaign.

These early 19th century tables traveled to Santa Fe from Mexico City via oxcart along the 1500 mile Spanish Colonial trail known as El Camino Real -the royal road- that terminated in Santa Fe, then the capital of the Spanish Empire north of the Rio Grande.

In those days the journey took almost six months.

The campaign tables display a series of holiday ornaments featuring distinctive examples of New Mexico culture, such as flamenco dancing, hot air balloons, our famous chile, the state gem turquoise, and a Cochiti Pueblo storyteller figure.

The living room is a popular meeting place during public functions and for the governor's family.

The piano is central to festivities at the mansion, and many a famous player has tickled the ivories over the years.

Another focal point is the fireplace and wide windows that show off outstanding views of the gardens on the mansion's 30-acre parcel.

The living room features signature pieces representative of the many strands of New Mexican art, such as outstanding pottery, paintings, and sculpture by Native Americans, tin work and carvings in the Spanish Colonial and Mexican traditions, as well as fine paintings loaned from our outstanding New Mexico art museums.

Here in the Southwest, Native American pottery-making has evolved over the centuries from basic uses for water, storage, and cooking, to today's highly developed art forms prized by collectors around the world.

This micaceous work entitled "Jar 1997" is an interpretation of a utilitarian pot by Lonnie Vigil of Nambé Pueblo, a nationally known potter whose works are in many public collections, including the Smithsonian.

Smoke and fire leave interesting shadows on the pots during the firing process.

Native American artists have made significant contributions to every artistic medium.

One of the most influential sculptors was Chiricahua Apache Allan Houser, whose work is known globally for its fusion of Modernist style with Native American themes.

His sculpture "Nightwind" is a bronze produced in 1989.

As a member of the faculty of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in the 1960s and 70s, and as a full-time sculptor thereafter, he influenced a generation of artists with his approach of presenting the Native American subject matter in a contemporary form.

Until 1821 New Mexico was part of the Spanish Empire for nearly 300 years.

During that time, a rich art tradition developed, often of religious works honoring traditional Catholic figures with unique regional characteristics.

Today Spanish Colonial art in New Mexico is a vibrant This piece, the altar screen, is by Anita Romero Jones, a native of Santa Fe who was renowned as a santera-an artist of saint images.

The winner of many national art show awards, Romero Jones honored traditional religious figures by creating tin altar screens as the backgrounds for her hand-carved wooden saints.

>>The grand dining room is the perfect space to show off our famous New Mexican hospitality and food for convivial occasions.

It also functions as a showplace for an important collection of art, custom and original furniture, and unique decor.

The centerpiece is the dining table which expands to 36 feet; it was created by Gene Law, a Santa Fe interior designer who was commissioned in the early 1990s to help plan the mansion's interior.

He traveled to Spain to study Spanish furniture styles and consulted with the pueblos and academic experts to understand Native American culture and design elements.

The dining table incorporates 17th century Spanish motifs from the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Madrid, as do the matching chairs.

Hanging above the table is a tin chandelier created by New Mexico artist Gary Blank.

The chandelier emphasizes the state's historical ties to Mexico where tin is a popular art medium.

The New Mexican tradition of tin work began flourishing in 1846, when innovative Hispanic artists began recycling large tin food cans discarded by United States army personnel during the Mexican-American War.

One of the most popular decorative touches in the mansion is the dining room ceiling, stenciled by New Mexico artists.

The design takes its inspiration from the Spanish Palace near Madrid, where King Philip III signed the papers authorizing the settlement of Santa Fe.

The dining room is currently the home to a dramatic painting by one of the first Modernist artists to travel west to New Mexico in the early 20th century, Paul Burlin.

Burlin received his art education in New York.

He was already well known when he came to paint in Santa Fe, and his work was exhibited at the opening of the New Mexico Museum of Art in 1917.

Burlin's work reflects the color and abstract geometry of Native American designs, and was influenced by the symbols and legends of the Southwestern Indian cultures as portrayed in this painting entitled "Indian Ceremonial Dance."

Beneath the Burlin painting is a chest, specially designed by Gene Law, that combines 16th and 17th century Spanish elements.

The sitting room is used for smaller gatherings, or as an adjunct to other public rooms.

It also highlights authentic and custom-made traditional style furniture, religious wood carvings, and fine art.

Joseph Henry Sharp was one of many fine young American artists who ventured off to Europe in the late 19th century to experience its art and culture.

After traveling to New Mexico in 1883, Sharp returned to Paris the following year.

Sharp enticed two other young American artists, Bert Phillips and Ernest Blumenschein, to visit Taos, with his tales about the rich culture of Taos Pueblo and the beautiful land and light of northern New Mexico, a place where these men helped create a regional style of paintings based on New Mexican landscapes and Native American imagery.

Sharp returned to Taos often and made it his permanent home in 1912.

>>Along with Blumenschein, Phillips, and others, he was an original member of the Taos Society of Artists, established in 1915 to promote and exhibit the New Mexico paintings of the members throughout the country, making Taos one of the early major art colonies in the US.

Sharp, best known for his realistic portrayals of American Indians of the plains and the pueblos, also produced significant landscape paintings inspired by the visual beauty and light of New Mexico, as shown here in this painting "Taos Cañon."

Included with other pieces of art in the sitting room is this striking "Portrait of Teresa Bakos'' by Will Shuster, a major figure in Santa Fe's early art colony days.

In 1921 Shuster and Jozef Bakos, Teresa's husband, along with three other artists, founded the New Mexico artists' society known as Los Cinco Pintores- the five painters-which, like the more well-known Taos Society, worked to enhance the reputations of New Mexico artists.

As a successful painter and an active supporter of the community, Shuster developed a colorful and realistic painting style, emphasizing warm earth tones which reflected the land and the homes of New Mexico.

In addition to housing the governor and family, the mansion hosts hundreds of events each year.

>>An empty chair symbolizes equality for all who visit the Governor's Mansion.

>>And the mansion has a portal for each direction, each season, each stage of life, echoing the four-part design of our state flag: a symbol of friendship among New Mexico's peoples.

DECONSTRUCTING JAZZ.

>>Darren: Jazz, I think it starts getting different with harmonic intensity.

>>Alexis: That's Darren Kramer.

>>Darren: Not oatmeal, but maybe oatmeal with walnuts and cinnamon and honey and all sort of crazy things in it.

>>Alexis: He's a jazz musician.

>>Darren: Trombone is really an identity for me I would say.

>>Alexis: Turned jazz aficionado.

>>I just have always been attracted to the way it makes >>Alexis: Music has been a part of his life forever.

Ba ba da ba da Ba ba da ba da Ba ba da ba ba da Ba bo doo Bee bee doob Bee da >>Alexis: And now, he's getting other people jazzed.

Traveling around the Denver area giving workshops he calls Sonic Tonic.

>>Sonic meaning sound waves and tonic is traditionally a medicinal substance to make you feel better.

>>Alexis: The gist?

How to listen to jazz.

>>Top of the tune.

It's movin'!

>>Alexis: Using the four main elements of music.

>>Rhythm, melody, harmony, and lyrics.

Somethin' different, bridge >>Alexis: To create a better experience for music listeners.

>>Let me show you how to listen like a jazz musician.

Let's go inside the music and realize we're not playing the melody, and it's not just three notes, it's more, maybe there's 27 different notes in it.

So it's a little more advanced.

>>Alexis: Okay.

We had to put Darren's knowledge to the ultimate test.

Our team collected music samples from Denver's Five Points Jazz Fest, and... >>So this is gonna be fun, yeah.

So you've brought in some clips from the recent Five Points Jazz Festival, and we're gonna listen to a couple clips and then do a little mini Sonic Tonic on these so that we're saying what would somebody listen to?

Or how would I listen to it?

So here's our first one.

He's the kind of guy Well he give ya everything Your strength, your heart You share all of your love Till death do you part ?

>>Darren: I like it.

It's mellow, serious groove.

I'm noticing the cross stick on that drums, believe it or not I'm listening right past her.

As a musician, not just a singer or a general music listener I'm kinda going different levels.

So I love that little, that guitar that's happening.

He's the kind of guy Well he give ya everything It's happy, we're in the major key.

Your strength, your heart You share all of your love Till death Her voice is great, great nuance great tone.

She has a nice little story she's talkin' about there.

And this particular recording I'm not hearing enough bass for me, plus we're listening on my laptop speakers.

But I notice that my music engineer side come out and go I wanna feel like I'm layin' on this like bass sound right?

Alright here's a new one.

Yeah!

Ha ha, dig it!

That's kinda old school, you know like a folk jazz, right?

And some of this stuff gypsy jazz when they have a lot of different instruments like a violin, this had a clarinet in it.

And it's so fun, it's got it's own sound.

So maybe you don't even know what a clarinet is, you haven't noticed that.

Wood wind instrument has a reed, way different than trombone.

But that gives this it's own vibe.

And there's a sax, tenor sax.

There, that's the clarinet!

And it's fun, it's happy right?

And here's the last one.

I've got to know Why you been fallin' Stallin' all the time Is it true Or do you lie I don't know Who you seein' on the sly Today I've got to know Who you been callin', callin' Did you sly That's my kinda thing.

Funky jazz, right?

Vocalist sounds very good.

What do I notice right behind that is some of those hits in the drums.

He's not just like phonin' it in.

Hey man we're kinda playin', no.

Man he's like, check out these hits.

I've got to know That snare.

Why you've been fallin' Stallin' all the time And those on the hi-hat, They're gonna do it again probably.

Who you've been seein' On the sly Today I've got to know Who you been callin' Horns are hitting on those downbeats, right.

So this to me is way more interesting than, you know just... Boo boo doop bee dum Great sounding bands and they're all quite different as we're hearing, right?

So jazz doesn't just mean one thing, so if maybe you have an idea that you don't like jazz, maybe give it another try.

There's lots of jazz going on on a weekly basis in downtown Denver and in Boulder.

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