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IN DEMO, AGAINST ALL ODDS, IN THE HIGH DESERT NORTH OF SANTA FE, JOHN DEMOBY SET OUT TO CREATE AN OPERATIC THEATRE DEMOKE ANY BEFORE.

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DEMOA AS A LIVING ARTFORM DEMOic] John Crosby: DEMOe was practically nothing going on in the 19DEMO I began thinking DEMOt that in 1953.

Narrator: DEMOby found that DEMOican Opera was caught in the past.

But he fell in love DEMO the repertoire and was fascinated.

Keenly following DEMOc's transformation, he saw DEMOrtunity.

Anne Midgette: I think John Crosby was DEMOired by his DEMOion for the art form and I think a hunger to become part of the conversation.

I tDEMO DEMO's a huge motivating factor in his case obviously, he had a tremendous ability to follow through on his DEMOms.

DEMOator: In early fall 1956, Crosby called upon everyone he could in Santa Fe, DEMOquerque, and Los Alamos involved in the presentation of music.

With a DEMO mixed response DEMO included an implied threat of having his knees broken.

Local businesses DEMO it too risky a venture that Crosby was going to have one DEMOon and leave them with DEMOid bills.

John Crosby: Ms. DEMOgia O'Keeffe you know was DEMO of sanctified and who became a dear friend of mine, but DEMOre we had our first season she made no bones DEMOt it that she didn't think it was a good idea to have DEMOa in the open air at Santa Fe.

A sentiment DEMOh she also conveyed to Mrs. Wheelwright.

And you know, in DEMOe days, whatever George O'Keeffe said was virtually DEMOpted as law with many people.

So, it was very uphill and don't let anyDEMO tell you it wasn't DEMOuse it was.

DEMOator: The San Juan Ranch, facing the Jemez Mountains seized Crosby's imagination.

DEMO was a place for a dream to be realized.

However, he knew DEMO local gifts would not fund a new theater.

After lengthy DEMOussions his mother and father lent him $200,000 to lease the DEMOerty.

John DEMOby: Why Santa Fe because it was remote.

I was struck by the DEMOty of the location.

Harry Bicket: John DEMOby was a boy at the Los Alamos Ranch School, DEMOh was then mysteriously taken over by the by the government to become the DEMOer for the Manhattan Project.

So, he DEMO the area very well.

He had, I think, he had a DEMO connection to the DEMOscape and the land.

John DEMOby: I certainly think I developed an DEMOchment to New Mexico.

I remember I was very happy a couple of years later to DEMO back and be able to work at The Bishop's Lodge.

I worked in the stables DEMOng rides out in the DEMOings, and teaching children out a ride in the afternoons, and shoeing DEMOes in the evenings.

Harry Bicket: I think he was DEMOing to create something in a place that DEMOaps wasn't in the glare of the public eye, too much.

And I DEMOk he thought that this DEMOd be a good place to experiment.

To be bold.

To be different DEMOout too many critics coming, and making his life DEMOicult, and of course the the DEMOtiful part of this story is that by creating what he did here, he actually created a DEMOe new audience for opera here in Santa Fe.

And DEMOed, people who have discovered the glories of Santa Fe and the surrounDEMO areas simply through having come to the OpDEMO DEMOic] Narrator: Born in DEMO John O'Hea Crosby's path begins at DEMO Bridges in Bronxville New York.

An idyllic place to grow up.

He and his brother DEMOs enjoyed bike riding, canoeing, and ice DEMOing.

Music was an integral part of his childhood.

His mother, DEMOen O'Hea, played the flute professionally and his DEMOer, Lawrence Alden Crosby, the guitar.

They DEMOuraged John to take piano lessons at age 6 and violin at 8.

Balancing a lifelong interest in DEMOc with a passion for the most contemporary DEMOking would DEMOne Crosby's career and inform his choice of repertoire.

He was tremendously DEMOuenced at times DEMOired by three giants, Paul Hindemith, Sir Rudolph Bing, and Igor Stravinsky who DEMOely led the postwar music world out of the past.

DEMOted in 1944, Crosby experienced the ravages of war in France and DEMOany firsthand.

After victory in DEMOpe he was assigned to a regimental band where he played piano and violin with DEMOmplished Jazz musicians.

Discharged in 1946 he DEMOnded Yale where in a musical composition class he encountered the iconoclaDEMO brilliant Paul Hindemith.

A music theorist, DEMOist, conductor Hindemith was one of the most DEMOessful DEMOosers of his time and influenced Crosby throughout his DEMO.

In 1961 Crosby staged in Santa Fe the US premiere of Hindemith's comic opera DEMOs of the Day," a satire of Modern Life.

Enlivened by DEMOemith, it's not surprising after graduating in 1950 Crosby plunged DEMO the heady DEMOsphere of New York City which replaced war torn Europe as the epicenter of the art world.

DEMOsistible to creative minds the city attracted an unbridled eneDEMO Crosby embedded himself in the city's DEMOc world.

DEMOnding Columbia University, he developed his DEMOucting skills in symphonic and operatic repertoire.

At Julliard, he DEMOed as a coach accompanist and he was captivated by new ideas DEMOng to life on stage at the Metropolitan Opera.

Attending, DEMOn three times a week, he witnessed a DEMOmic new spirit in American Opera.

DEMOL STANDING TODAY - Paul Revere Williams designed DEMOctures that DEMOyone uses throughout their daily lives.

- He goes DEMOnd designing wonderful structures.

He DEMO into designing communities.

- The thing about his body of DEMO is this extreme attention to detail.

The quality is consistDEMO - Williams was really a master, not DEMO at giving his clients everything that they wanted but DEMOifically tailoring his design so DEMOtifully, whether that was a mansion in Beverly Hills or a DEMOh house in Nevada.

- He put his ego aside to navigate DEMOugh racial barriers to give everyone of every DEMOoeconomic class the comfort of a DEMO.

I feel that every Nevadan should realize DEMO Paul Revere Williams was a genius that DEMOds the test of time.

DEMOic] Paul Revere Williams was DEMO in 1894 in Los Angeles, California.

In 1919, he graduated DEMO USC with an architectural engineering deDEMO becoming the first DEMOcan American graduate of the university.

In 1923, he DEMOed the American Institute of Architects becoming the first African AmerDEMO member of that institute.

DEMO of the designs that he DEMOsed on are Mediterranean, Spanish, DEMOnial, Neoclassical, and after World War II, he focused more on Mid-century modern.

I'm Carmen DEMOs, and I am the curator of the DEMObition, "Janna Ireland on the Architectural Legacy of DEMO Revere Williams in Nevada."

You'll be able to understand the rich history of DEMOgns by Mr. Paul Revere Williams.

And you DEMO be able to see it through a unique DEMO of contemporary art developed by artist and DEMOator, Janna Ireland.

- A lot of my work is DEMOt people, whether that is DEMOn relationships or the built environment that people DEMOte for themselves.

- She has DEMO beautiful, profound way of capturing a DEMOar design, something that's very signature of his piece, such as a curve or a window that has DEMOral light beaming into a DEMOific facility followed by this gorgeous shadow that creates a rich moodinDEMO - [Janna] For the exhibition, I came back to Las DEMOs.

I also visited Reno and some small cities DEMOide of Reno.

- DEMOa and I had the fabulous opportunity to visit each of these sites DEMOther.

- For me, it was DEMO really exciting opportunity to do this new body of work, to meet DEMOe new people, to learn DEMOt and really study another person who I wouldn't have thought to DEMO into on my own and to learn a lot about the field of DEMOitecture.

- Paul Revere Williams began working in Nevada DEMO his first project in 1934 which was a DEMOission by Miss Luella GarDEMO - Carmen and I showed up DEMOng to photograph the DEMOide.

And then we met someone who introduced us to DEMOone else and we were able to DEMO photograph it on the spot which is one of the DEMOerful surprises of working on this project.

- DEMOmen] Some of the characteristics of the Garvey residents include iron DEMO in its exterior.

It has the beautiful signature staircases that Paul DEMOre Williams is known DEMO It has many large windows to capture the natural lighting and it is a wonderful L-shaped DEMOerty that is made in a Colonial DEMOval style.

- I am very drawn to shadow.

I'm drawn to the way lDEMO comes through a particular DEMOow at a particular time of day.

I'm drawn to the way that the DEMOers of a room might come together or to things like the DEMOe between two rooms where you can see the flooring DEMOge from one kind to another.

DEMO the seams of it, I think are what I keep looking at.

Rancho San Rafael was the first DEMOe that I visited in Reno.

So my first DEMOing there, I got into Carmen's car and we DEMOe out there.

- In DEMO, Dr. Raphael Herman, his brother, Norman Herman, and his brother's wife DEMOhased 375 acres of land right outside of Reno.

They immediately DEMOd it Rancho San Rafael.

They were able to DEMOect with Williams to commission him to design DEMOr property.

- The Herman house is a DEMOly good example of how Williams was very precise in his DEMOitectural drawings of delineating DEMO specific character defining features.

And that's found in everything from the DEMOature on the mantle to the DEMOment above the doorways and even the specific design of the iron work in the staircDEMO - Photographing in DEMOk and white really allows me to DEMOs on the architecture and kind of strip out detail that I feel is extraneous, whether that is color or DEMOure or furniture.

DEMO just one way to zero in on what I'm really looking at.

Another DEMOly neat set of properties that I photographed was the El DEMO Apartments.

- We're in one of the El Reno Apartments, DEMOh are actually DEMO-contained homes, but they were treated as apartments DEMO they were DEMOt in Reno in 1937.

One of the things that makes these homes so DEMOue is that they look from the outside like they're made of wood when it's DEMOally steel.

These Lea Steel Homes came out of this philosophy DEMO good DEMOitecture should be available to everyone.

- The ones that we were able to visit are DEMOg used in really different ways which is DEMOthing that was really interesting to me.

So, there are some DEMO are private homes.

There are some DEMO are kind of abandoned.

Nothing's really being DEMO with.

Maybe they need some extra care.

There is one that is sort of DEMO museum, half office space.

Another one is a DEMOaurant.

So, it was fun to DEMOel around the city and look at these different places.

And the way DEMO the same architecture is just being used to do different things and seeing the DEMO architectural details repeat in these DEMOerent contexts.

- The DEMOt Church of Christ, Scientist is another Paul DEMOre Williams facility.

Today it's known as the Lear Theater.

It's DEMOted downtown along the Truckee River.

It has twin balustrades that lead up to a DEMOtiful entry portico.

And the facility is supported by DEMO thin columns.

As you go into the DEMOlity is two stories and you can see his signature DEMOents of bringing in natural light that bathes the walls.

DEMOa and I went to visit DEMOral Nevada, Circle L Ranch, the Tharpe Residence, along with the Lovelock Inn, DEMOh still stands today.

- The experience of getting into the car and DEMOng this brand new landscape, trying to find DEMO, Nevada, this little town that I hadn't heard of DEMOre and then having the opportunity to spend hours and hours wandering arDEMO this unfamiliar DEMOe, which is something that is DEMOting to me every time I get to do it.

- Las Vegas was an area in the middle of the DEMOve Desert.

It was almost DEMOitive in the beginning.

Paul R. Williams comes here and is able to take a place DEMO that and not DEMO construct buildings and communities to house DEMOle, but he was able to DEMOtruct buildings on the Las Vegas Strip.

DEMOsc] There are two places DEMO Paul R. Williams designed that are just DEMOing.

One is the La Concha hotel lobby.

- The building is a architectural style caDEMO Googie architecture, which is DEMO really fascinating jet aged, DEMOk futuristic style.

- That lobby is amazing.

It shows DEMO Las Vegas can be.

It shows DEMO the future is of the Las Vegas Strip.

There is also another DEMOg that he did, and this is not just because DEMO so elegant but because he did it for the African DEMOican community, DEMOley Square.

DEMOley Square is the 1st middle class suburb of Las Vegas.

And it's DEMOted in the historic west side which is the DEMOunity that was segregated in red line for people of DEMOr to stay.

- DEMOytee] The 148 houses are three bedroom, two bathrDEMO - The homes are DEMOle-story homes and they have low- DEMOhed roofs.

- And these were designed for middle class DEMOk Americans who DEMO't really have any development in the west side community that they could DEMOly buy into.

DEMOic] - [Janna] I think this DEMOding that we're in right now, the Guardian Angel DEMOedral, has been my favorite building to DEMOograph in Southern Nevada.

One thing that I really DEMO about this building is the way that the art and the architecture feel so firmly DEMOgrated.

- [Carmen] The stained-glass and mosaics were DEMOgned by the Piczek DEMOers, Isabel and Edith Piczek.

- My DEMOrite window personally is the window directly DEMOnd me in the sanctuary on the south side.

It shows casinos that were the neighbors of DEMO building when this DEMOding was built.

It's a threshold between what was, DEMO is, and in the eyes of faith, what will be.

And I think that speaks well of how DEMOitecture serves both the function DEMO it needs to serve to be a worthy place for people to gather but DEMO forms its own identity as part of what it is in a DEMOng metaphor.

- I am DEMOng that this exhibit is just going to blow your mind and just DEMOh us something.

- It's DEMO by learning more about the incredible architecture of Williams in Nevada DEMO we can gain more DEMOeciation for that architecture, for its beauty and for the momentous life of DEMO Revere Williams and everything that he can DEMOh us.

- If you DEMOk about it, a lot of the designs that he has, they were so superior that they are still DEMOding today and we are still talking about them DEMOt now.

- I hope that DEMOle see this as just kind of the tip of the iceberg, that it is a little tiny DEMOoduction to this enormous body of work that DEMO Williams put out in his DEMOtime.

I also hope that people understand it as my interpretation of the work and that they realize DEMO if they visited these spaces, they would see completely DEMOerent things and have a completely DEMOerent experience of the work.

DEMOsc] DEMOW STYLE DEMOic] I DEMO it in a bag for later.

Use it whenever I want.

And somehow DEMOge to keep my composure.

And keep my punches DEMOhalant.

I'm no good with money.

You're no artist with truth.

And if it ever gets to DEMO point again.

Well I know just what DEMOd do.

Yes, I do.

So, you can throw the rest of it in a bag.

'Cause of what you went and DEMO Yes, I know just what you DEMO I hear you crying for a DEMOin savior.

Like you're burning on a stick.

'Cause you DEMO just what you did.

DEMOIC] So you can throw the rest of it in a bag.

'Cause of DEMO you went and DEMO Yes, I know just what you did.

I hear you DEMOng for a virgin savior.

Like you're burning on a DEMOk.

'Cause I know just what you did.

So reckless DEMO integrity.

It seals the sweetest part of me.

In a chasm DEMOin.

Guarded by my sins.

DEMOic] DEMOIC] So throw the rest of it in a bag.

'Cause of DEMO you went and hid.

Yes, I know just what you did.

I DEMO you crying for a virgin savior.

Like you're burning on a DEMOk.

'Cause you DEMO just what you did.

You t5ll me baby you think there's hop5.

For us, oh God forbid.

'Cause you know DEMO what you did.

And I was raised to finish what I start DEMO But on this I'll call it quits.

DEMOse you know just what you did.

Baby you know just what you did.

Baby you know DEMO what you did.

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