♪♪ ♪♪ >>> COMING UP ON NYC ARTS, A VISIT TO FOUR FREEDOMS PARK WHICH PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE IDEALS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT.

>> WE'VE HAD WELL OVER 600,000 PEOPLE COME TO THE FOUR FREEDOMS PARK.

I'VE SEEN PEOPLE WEEP AS THEY LOOK AT THE JOE DAVIDSON SCULPTURE OF FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT.

A LOOK AT THE HIGHLIGHT IN THE COLLECTION OF OUTSTANDING PAINTINGS AT THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

>> BEHIND ME IS THE RETURN OF THE 69th REGIMENT, THE IRISH REGIMENT IN 1862 FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.

LANG HAS USED THIS AS A PAINT E AS A PORTRAITIST AND LANDSCAPIST.

>> AND A PROFILE OF STREET, ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR MEMBERS OF THE MTA'S MUSIC UNDER NEW YORK PROGRAM AND PUT DOWN THE TECHNOLOGY AND JUST DANCE.

CONNECT.

THAT'S ALL.

♪♪ ♪♪ >> FUNDING FOR NYC ARTS IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE MONELL FOUNDATION, AND ELISE JAFFE.

THE NANCY SIDEWATER FOUNDATION AND THE MILTON AND ELLROY AND TERRY CRUMBWELL FOUNDATION.

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NYC ARTS IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY -- >> FIRST REPUBLIC BANK PRESENTS FIRST THING'S FIRST.

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FIRST DECREE, BE A BANK WHOSE CURRENCY IS SERVICE IN THE FORM OF PERSONAL BANKING.

THIS WAS FIRST REPUBLIC'S MISSION FROM OUR VERY FIRST DAY.

IT'S STILL THE FIRST THING ON OUR MINDS.

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♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO "NYC ARTS."

I'M PAULA ZAHN ON LOCATION AT THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ON CENTRAL PARK WEST.

THE MUSEUM'S MISSION IS TO HELP FORGE THE FUTURE BY DOCUMENTING THE PAST THROUGH THE DOMENA CHILDREN'S HISTORY MUSEUM.

THE CENTER FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY, DIGITAL EXHIBITIONS AND A PODCAST.

THE MUSEUM PROVIDES THE PUBLIC WITH DEEP DIVES INTO HISTORY.

SINCE THE 2020 ELECTION YEAR A SERIES OF EXHIBITIONS HAVE BEEN MOUNTED HERE FOCUSING ON AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.

THIS MONTH A NEW, PERMANENT GALLERY IS OPEN FEATURING A DETAILED RECREATION OF THE WHITE HOUSE OVAL OFFICE.

MEET THE PRESIDENTS ALLOWS VISITORS TO EXPLORE THE WEST WING'S FORMAL WORK SPACE, PART OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICES SINCE 1909.

OVAL OFFICE DECOR IS A REFLECTION OF THE TASTE AND PREFERENCES OF THE PRESIDENT.

THIS INSTALLATION'S DESIGN IS BASED ON THE CLASSIC FURNISHINGS OF PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN'S SECOND TERM.

VISITORS CAN HAVE A PHOTO-OP SITTING BEHIND A REPLICA OF THE RESOLUTE DESK USED BY ALMOST EVERY PRESIDENT SINCE 1880.

ART WORK AND OBJECTS ON VIEW DISCLOSE THE EVOLUTION OF THE PRESIDENCY AND EXECUTIVE BRANCH.

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE THE BIBLE VIEWS DURING GEORGE WASHINGTON'S 1789 INAUGURATION.

A 1941 TRANSITONE RADIO DEPICTING FDR'S FIRESIDE CHATS FROM THE OVAL OFFICE TO MILLIONS OF AMERICANS AND A STUDENT SCRAPBOOK DOCUMENTING PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S LEADERSHIP DURING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS.

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT WAS OUR 32nd PRESIDENT AND THE ONLY ONE TO BE ELECTED TO THREE CONSECUTIVE TERMS.

MANY OF THE BENEFITS WE ENJOY AS AMERICANS WE OWE TO FDR, SOCIAL SECURITY, OUR LABOR LAWS AND THE KNOWLEDGE THAT IF A BANK FAILS OUR SAVINGS WILL BE INTACT, BUT WHAT MAY BE HIS GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT WAS TO ARTICULATE FOUR UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS, KNOWN AS THE FOUR FREEDOM, THEY ARE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF WORSHIP, FREEDOM FROM WANT AND FREEDOM FROM FEAR.

IN 2012 A PARK ON THE SOUTHERN TIP OF ROOSEVELT ISLAND WAS DEDICATED TO THESE IDEALS.

NYC ARTS SPOKE WITH THE LATE AMBASSADOR WILLIAM VANDENOVAL, THE FOUNDER OF THE FOUR FREEDOMS PARK ABOUT FDR'S LEGACY AND HIS INDELIBLE MARK IN HISTORY.

♪♪ ♪♪ >> THIS HAS PLACED ITS DESTINY IN THE HANDS, AND OF THE MILLIONS OF FREE MEN AND ♪♪ ♪♪ >> AFTER PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S DEATH IN 1945, WAS THERE A BROAD DISCUSSION BY MANY GROUPS ABOUT WHAT WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE MEMORIAL TO OUR 32nd PRESIDENT WHO ALREADY WAS SEEN AS ONE OF OUR GREATEST.

MEMORIALS TAKE A LONG TIME TO WORK OUT.

I REMIND PEOPLE THAT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON WAS ONLY DEDICATED IN 1922.

LINCOLN DIED IN 1865, OF COURSE.

SO THE DEBATE WENT ON FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.

THE PERSON WHO I WOULD THINK SHOULD BE DESIGNATED TO THE ONE THAT IS DETERMINED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN WAS NELSON ROCKEFELLER, AND AS GOVERNOR OF THE STATE HE BEGAN AN URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ON WHAT WAS THEN CALLED WELFARE ISLAND IN THE EAST RIVER RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE UNITED NATIONS.

♪♪ ♪♪ >> HE'D COME AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO A COUNTRY WHERE THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM HAD BEEN DESTROYED.

WHERE 25% UNEMPLOYMENT.

WITH NO SOCIAL WELFARE, WAS THERE WAS NO SOCIAL SECURITY.

I OFTEN THINK BACK WHEN HE CAME TO OFFICE IN MARCH 1933 THE BANKING SYSTEM WAS DEMOLISHED.

FIRST THING HE DID WAS CLOSE THE BANKS AND DECLARED A BANK HOLIDAY.

WITHIN TEN DAYS HE GAVE HIS FIRST FIRESIDE CHAT WHICH WAS HIS WAY OF COMMUNICATING WITH AMERICA.

>> AFTER ALL, THERE IS AN ELEMENT IN THE READJUSTMENT OF OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM MORE IMPORTANT THAN CURRENCY, MORE IMPORTANT THAN GOLD AND THAT IS THE CONFIDENCE OF THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES.

CONFIDENCE AND COURAGE ARE THE ESSENTIALS OF SUCCESS IN CARRYING OUT OUR PLANS.

TOGETHER, WE CANNOT FAIL.

>> ALMOST OVERNIGHT PEOPLE HAD CONFIDENCE IN HIM, HIS VOICE COMMUNICATED THAT AND HIS ACTIONS ASSURED IT, AND ROOSEVELT SAVED THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM.

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SYSTEM AND WENT ON WITH LABOR, GIVING LABOR A VOICE TO THE WAGNER ACT AND WENT ON THROUGH THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM.

HE ENDED CHILD LABOR IN THE UNITED STATES.

THE CCC, MY BROTHER WAS IN THAT.

THEY PLANTED OVER 2 BILLION TREES IN AMERICA TO STOP THE KIND OF STORMS THAT HAD SWEPT THROUGH THE MIDWEST AND REMOVED THE TOP SOIL OF THE COUNTRY.

MORE THAN A HALF OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE NATION TODAY WAS BUILT IN THE NEW DEAL.

WORLD WAR I HAD BEEN A TERRIBLE DISASTER FOR MANY NATIONS AND MANY FAMILIES, AND IT WAS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND AS YOU LOOK BACK WHAT THAT WAR HAD BEEN FOUGHT ABOUT SO THAT AMERICA IN THE '30s WAS AN ISOLATIONIST COUNTRY AND WAS QUITE CONTENT EVEN THOUGH HE HAD MAJOR ECONOMIC DISASTERS ON HIS OWN TO CONTEND WITH.

IT WAS PREPARED TO BE INVOLVED WITHOUT THE PROBLEMS OF EUROPE AND THEN THE WAR CAME IN SEPTEMBER 1939 AND HITLER'S ARMIES PROVED TO BE MOST POWERFUL ARMY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD AND THE FOUR FREEDOMS SPEECH WAS GIVE OWN JANUARY 6, 1941.

THAT WAS A VERY CRITICAL AND DIFFICULT TIME.

HITLER HAD CONQUERED EUROPE.

ONLY WINSTON CHURCHILL AND THE BRITISH STOOD AGAINST HIM AND SO HE SAID TO THE CONGRESS AND THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES AND SPECIFICALLY TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, THE WORLD THAT WE NEED TO CREATE TO PRESERVE PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IS A WORLD THAT HAS TO BE FOUNDED ON FOUR FREEDOMS.

>> FIRST IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD.

THE SECOND IS FREEDOM OF EVERY PERSON TO WORSHIP GOD IN THEIR OWN WAY EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD.

THE THIRD IS FREEDOM FROM WANT EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD.

THE FOURTH IS FREEDOM FROM -- ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> WE HAD WELL OVER 600,000 PEOPLE COME TO THE FOUR FREEDOMS PARK.

I'VE SEEN PEOPLE WEEP AS THEY LOOK AT JOE DAVIDSON'S SCULPTURE OF FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT AS IT'S THERE.

I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME, STOPPED ME TO TALK ABOUT IT.

THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF THE FOUR FREEDOMS PARK.

I HOPE THAT THOSE WHO ARE THE AMBASSADORS TO THE UNITED NATIONS AND THOSE WHO COME TO THE UNITED NATIONS TO WORK EVERY DAY FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON DOWN UNDERSTAND THEIR OBLIGATION TO CREATE THE WORLD THAT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT WAS TALKING ABOUT.

HE ONCE SAID IN THE SECOND INAUGURAL, DON'T JUDGE ME BY HOW MUCH I'VE DONE AND JUDGE ME BY HOW MUCH I'VE HELPED THOSE WHO HAVE NEED.

♪♪ ♪♪ >> NOW LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT ONE OF THE OUTSTANDING AMERICAN PAINTINGS HERE AT THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> WELCOME TO THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, NEW YORK CITY'S OLDEST MUSEUM FOUNDED IN 1804.

I'M ROBERTA OLSEN, I'M CURATOR OF DRAWINGS HERE.

BEHIND ME IS AN INCREDIBLE TOUR DE FORCE PAINTING BY LOUIE LONG WHO WAS AN IMMIGRANT FROM GERMANY WHO STUDIED IN FRANCE AND ITALY AND CAME TO NEW YORK AND WAS KNOWN SPECIFICALLY FOR GENRE AND PORTRAITS.

THIS IS REALLY HIS PIECE DERESISTANCE AND HIS MAJOR PAINTING.

HE DID IT NOT ON COMMISSION, BUT BECAUSE HE WAS INSPIRED TO PAINT THIS WORK WHICH WAS THE RETURN OF THE 69th REGIMENT.

THE IRISH REGIMENT IN 1862 FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.

LANG HAS USED THIS AS A KIND OF SHOW PIECE TO SHOWCASE HIS ABILITY AS A GENRE PAINTER, AS A PORTRAITIST AND LANDSCAPIST.

THE CANVAS IS PRE-CINEMATIC.

YOUR EYE CANNOT STOP.

IT FLICKERS OVER ALL OF THE LITTLE VIGNETTES YOU SEE HERE.

THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT MOVE YOU AROUND IN THIS CANVAS, NOT ONLY THE WONDERFUL SMALL, ANECDOTAL DETAILS AND NARRATIVES THAT YOU CAN GET LOST IN, BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE HARBOR, YOU CAN ALMOST SEE THE SHIPS BEGINNING TO PASS.

THERE'S THIS FEELING OF THE RESTLESSNESS, THE SORT OF ENERGY OF NEW YORK THAT WAS PART OF THE WATER AND PART OF THE HARBOR.

THE ENTIRE PAINTING SHOWS A CURRENT EVENT IN A HISTORICAL, MONUMENTAL FEET, HE HAS BLOWN IT UP TO NEARLY LIFE SIZE.

THE CANVAS DEPICKS THE ARRIVAL OF THE 69th REGIMENT DOWNTOWN NEAR BOWLING GREEN IN WHAT IS NOW BATTERY PARK.

TO THE LEFT IS CASTLE GARDEN WHICH WAS BUILT ON A FORT, AND IT WAS A SORT OF CLEARING PLACE FOR IMMIGRATION BEFORELIS ISLAND.

TO THE RIGHT YOU SEE ON THE VERY FAR RIGHT THE WASHINGTON HOTEL WITH SPECTATORS CHEERING ON THIS RETURN OF THE SONS OF AARON, THE IRISH IMMIGRANTS FROM NEW YORK COMING BACK FROM THEIR SERVICE OF THREE MONTHS.

THEY HAD JUST UNDERGONE THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN WHICH WAS A LOSS FOR THE UNION CAUSE, BUT THEY HAD DONE SPECTACULARLY IN THAT AND HAD HELD OFF THE CONFEDERATES.

THERE ARE SOME MAJOR HISTORICAL FIGURES HERE.

THE MAN ON HORSEBACK RAISING HIS HAND AND THIS IS CAPTAIN MEAGER WHO WAS ACTUALLY AN IRISHMAN, A HERO DURING THIS PARTICULAR WAR.

THE ACTUAL COMMANDER OF THE REGIMENT, BRIGADIER GENERAL CORCORAN.

HE IS NOT PRESENT PHYSICALLY IN THE PAINT, BUT HE IS IN SPIRIT AND WE SEE HIM COMES PORTRAIT BEING LELDE UP BY THE NEWS BOY WHO IS HOKING THESE, AND HE WAS STILL INSPIRING THE HEROES OF THE REGIMENT.

IT'S A PATRIOTIC PANTH.

NOTICE ALL OF THE AMERICAN FLAGS HERE.

YOU ALSO HAVE IRISH FLAGS.

IT'S A DOCUDRAMA.

IT IS FILLED WITH SENTIMENT AND IT HAS ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT ENGAGE THE VIEWER EMOTIONALLY, INTELLECTUALLY AND ALSO IN TERMS OF CURRENT EVENTS.

AMONG THE COMPELLING VIGNETTES IS THE MOTHER IN THE YELLOW DRESS WELCOMING HOME HER WOUNDED SON.

YOU SEE THE TWO BOYS FIGHTING OVER THE RIFLE IN THE FOREGROUND.

YOU'LL SEE OTHER THINGS.

YOU'LL SEE A SOLDIER COMING DOWN WITH HIS LEG BANDAGED AND A PRIEST WHO IS ADMINISTERING TO THESE PEOPLE AND DID THE CENTER YOU HAVE THE MARCH AND ALL OF THE YOUNG DRUMMER BOYS AND YOU CAN ALMOST HEAR THE DRUMS GOING RAT-A-TAT-AT THAT TIME IN THIS PROCESSION MEANT TO CELEBRATE THE HEROES OF THE UNION CAUSE.

LANG'S MONUMENTAL CANVAS IS REALLY A MICROCOSM TO LOOK AT THE MACRO KOSM OF THE LARGER PAINTING COLLECTION.

IT'S A PORTHOLE, A LENS IN WHICH TO JUMP INTO THE REST OF THE OFFERINGS AT THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

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♪♪ ♪♪ >> NEXT, WE CONTINUE OUR SERIES ON MUSICIANS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE MTA'S MUSIC UNDER NEW YORK PROGRAM.

EVERY YEAR THE MT AHOLDS AUDITIONS TO SELECT THE NEXT GROUP OF DIVERSE MUSICIANS WHO ARE THEN GETTING ACCESS TO THE BEST PERFORMANCE LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE SUBWAY SYSTEM.

THE PROGRAM CURRENTLY HAS MORE THAN 350 REGISTERED MUSICIANS AND GROUPS.

AS A RESULT, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT KIND OF MUSIC MIGHT GREET YOU ON YOUR COMMUTE.

MARK MUELLER KNOWN AS STREET MULE WORKS AS AN ARCHITECT BY TRADE, BUT HAS A LONG HISTORY AS A MUSICIAN AND SUBWAY PERFORMER.

HE JOINED THE PROGRAM AS A SOLO ACT AND HAS BEEN PERFORMING MANY TIMES A WEEK THROUGHOUT THE CITY EVER SINCE.

WITH HIS PLAYING OF A DIDGERIDOO, AN AUSTRALIAN WIND INSTRUMENT AS WELL AS HIS UNIQUE COLLECTION OF PER CUSHION INSTRUMENTS, STREET MULE IS HARD TO MISS.

♪♪ ♪♪ >>> WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID I WOULD DRUM MYSELF TO SLEEP BY PUTTING MY EAR TO THE MATTRESS AND PLAYING THE MATTRESS AND THEN I WOULD HUM TO IT.

WHAT I'M DOING NOW IS NOT REALLY MUCH DIFFERENT THAN THAT.

♪♪ ♪♪ >> I CAME UP WITH THE NAME STREET MULE BECAUSE I PLAYED SO MUCH ON THE STREET AND THEN THE SUBWAY AND IT IS, IN A SENSE, A SHORTENED VERSION OF MY LAST ♪♪ ♪♪ >> I DECIDED TO AUDITION FOR MY SOLO ACT BECAUSE I WANTED TO BE ABLE TO EXPRESS MYSELF ON MY OWN TIME.

IT'S VERY DIFFICULT BECAUSE THERE'S MAYBE 300 ACTS THAT WILL APPLY EACH YEAR.

THEY'LL TAKE 75 TO AUDITION AT GRAND CENTRAL.

I ACTUALLY FAILED MY FIRST TIME.

I WENT BACK THE NEXT YEAR, GOT A STANDING OVATION AND WAS ACCEPTED.

>> THIS PROGRAM SPEAKS OF -- OF LOVE AND DIVERSITY AND EXPRESSION FOR BEING WHOEVER AND WHATEVER YOU WANT TO BE AND NEW YORKERS EAT IT ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ >> I LOVE NEW YORK FOR THAT, AND I LOVE THE PROGRAM FOR THAT.

♪♪ ♪♪ >> PEOPLE ASK ME ALL THE TIME WHAT THIS MUSIC IS, AND I TELL THEM IT'S WETTY.

WHEN I'M TRYING TO DO IS PROVIDE THE PEOPLE THAT SEE ME WITH 15 SECONDS OF ENERGY.

THE SOUND IS MORE OF AN IDEA OF THE NEW YORK CITY DIASPORA OF PEOPLE COMING TOGETHER FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD AND FINDING SOMETHING NEW.

♪♪ ♪♪ >> I CONSIDER REALLY ANYTHING AN INSTRUMENT.

THERE IS HAND DRUMS LIKE THE MIDDLE EASTERN HAND DRUM WHICH IS A DHARBOUKA OR DUNBEK AND THEN A CAJON WHICH IS A PERUVIAN RHYTHM BOX THAT I SIT ♪♪ ♪♪ >> AND THEN I PLAY A PLASTIC WIND TUBE THAT COULD BE A PVC PIPE, A FIBERGLASS TUBE, OR AN ACTUAL DIDGERIDOO, AND THEN PERCUSSION ON MY HANDS AS FAR AS BELLS OR SHAKERS AND THEN ON MY FEET, AS WELL.

IT'S A WHOLE BALANCING ACT.

♪♪ ♪ >> ATLANTIC PACIFIC IN BROOKLYN IS A RATE PART FOR MY LOCAL PEOPLE IT SOUNDS GREAT.

IT KIND OF LOOKS LIKE A TRUMPET AND THE SOUND IS COMPRESSED A BIT ANY THEN IT OPENS UP AND FOR MY SOUND IT KIND OF BILLOWS OUT LIKE THAT.

>> I LAY TO THE PULSE OF THE LOCATION THAT I'M PLAYING IN.

I FIND THAT MY CREATIVITY IS BEST IN THE MOMENT.

IN THE SUBWAY, THE MOMENT TO ENTICE SOMEONE TO COME BY AND STOP EVEN OR JUST SLOW DOWN IS SO SHORT THAT I'VE LEARNED TO SLIDE IN AND OUT OF DIFFERENT TIME SIGNATURES AND MOODS.

SO I'M FLEXIBLE AS FAR AS WHAT I'M DOING AND THAT IS WHAT I THINK HAS HELPED MY RHYTHM EXPERIENCE BECAUSE I'VE BECOME MORE AGILE WITH MY GEAR, BASICALLY.

♪♪ ♪♪ I SEE A CHILD AND BECAUSE THEY'RE SO MUCH IN THE MOMENT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE WATCHING OR THE ADULTS, THEY'LL REALIZE THAT THAT'S THE POINT OF PLAYING STREET MUSIC.

♪♪ ♪ >> PUT DOWN THE TECHNOLOGY AND JUST DANCE, CONNECT.

THAT'S ALL.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> ALL RIGHT, BABY!

>>> NEXT WEEK ON "NYC ARTS," A PROFILE OF BALLET HISPANICO, LATINO DANCE AND ONE OF AMERICA'S CULTURAL TREASURES.

>> BELLA HISPANICO'S VISION IS TO BRING TOGETHER COMMUNITIES TO CELEBRATE, SHARE, EXMROERT JOYS, THE HERITAGE OF LATINO ♪♪ ♪ >> AND A VISIT TO THE MORGAN LIBRARY IN CAPTURING PORTRAITS INTO THE UNIQUE PERSONALITIES OF HIS SUBJECTS.

>> THE MOST COZY VISION YOU ENCOUNTER PEOPLE WHO ARE FLESH AND BLOOD AND WE LEARNED A GREAT DEAL ABOUT THE STATUS, THE ASPIRATIONS AND THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SITTER.

THEY'RE ATTENTIVE TO RINGS, TO CRESTS, TO SYMBOLS AND TO DEVICES AND HE INTRODUCES THEM WHEREVER HE CAN.

♪♪ ♪♪ >> I HOPE YOU ENJOYED OUR PROGRAM THIS EVENING.

I'M PAULA ZAHN.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING, AND HOPE YOU'LL JOIN US NEXT ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> FUNDING FOR NYC ARTS IS MADE POSSIBLE BY -- THEA PETSCHEK IERVOLINO FOUNDATION.

THE LEWIS "SONNY" TURNER FUND FOR DANCE.

JODY AND JOHN ARNHOLD.

THE AMBROSE MONELL FOUNDATION.

ELISE JAFFE AND JEFFREY BROWN.

CHARLES AND VALERIE DIKER.

THE NANCY SIDEWATER FOUNDATION.

THE MILTON AND SALLY AVERY ARTS FOUNDATION.

AND ELLEN AND JAMES S. MARCUS.

THIS PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY COUNCIL.

ADDITIONAL FUNDING PROVIDED BY MEMBERS OF THIRTEEN.

"NYC ARTS" IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY -- >> FIRST REPUBLIC BANK PRESENTS "FIRST THINGS FIRST."

AT FIRST REPUBLIC BANK, FIRST REFERS TO OUR FIRST PRIORITY.

THE CLIENTS WHO WALK THROUGH OUR DOORS.

THE FIRST STEP?

RECOGNIZE THAT EVERY CLIENT IS AN INDIVIDUAL WITH UNIQUE NEEDS.

FIRST DECREE.

BE A BANK WHOSE CURRENCY IS SERVICE IN THE FORM OF PERSONAL BANKING.

THIS WAS FIRST REPUBLIC'S MISSION FROM OUR VERY FIRST DAY.

IT'S STILL THE FIRST THING ON OUR MINDS.

>> AND BY -- >> SWANN AUCTION GALLERIES.

WE HAVE A DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING AT AUCTIONS.

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