Professor Bernard Arnest, a Denver native born in 1917, was a professor of art at Colorado College from 1957â1982. He was Chairman of the Art Department for 17 of those 25 years. A noted painter whose works have been exhibited at various galleries throughout the country, Arnest received his formal training at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center School of Art from 1935 to 1939.
Belen, New Mexico. Two quatrains and the refrain of a song composed in the late nineteenth century. It made fun of Gilbert's great-grandfather. Includes commentary. Quality: Good/Fair.
Santo Domingo, New Mexico. Josie Lovato sings a short song from the pueblo of Santo Domingo, New Mexico. Quality: Good
Rutherton, New Mexico. Quality: Good/Fair.
Leyba, New Mexico. Quality: Fair.
Vallecitos, New Mexico. Two brothers are envious of their younger brother, thus, when the opportunity presents itself, they murder him in the forest and bury his body. Although they return home and tell their father that their brother is lost in the forest, an Indian shows up with a singing flower, which tells of the evil deed of the olders brothers. Quality:Fair
Las Vegas, New Mexico. Discussion of place names associated with the New Mexican historical ballad, "Indita de Manuel Maes." Quality: Good.
Tome, New Mexico. See item 9.13. Quality: Good/ Fair.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Performed as a duet. Quality: Fair.
Ojo Caliente, New Mexico. Mexican popular music. Instrumental. Quality:Fair
Tierra Amarilla. Recited. Quality:Fair
Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico. Recited. Quality:Fair
Tierra Amarilla. Quality:Fair
Albuquerque, New Mexico. A drunk gets into a home where a wake is being held and, seeing the few candles around the body, begins to sing "Las mananitas," a birthday song. Someone tells the drunk to quiet own, that he is in a wake. The drunk then says that now he understands why there were so few candles for such a large cake. Quality: Good
Chimayo, New Mexico. Mexican folk song popularized by Rosales y Robinson on 78 r.p.m. Columbia platters (1918). Recited. Quality: Fair
Chimayo, New Mexico. Humorous song about the marriage of the huitlacoche. Recited. Quality: fair.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Describes the life and hardships of the shepard. Quality: Fair/Poor.
Pojoaque, New Mexico. Recited. See item 7.31. Quality: Fair.
Vequita, New Mexico. Recited. Quality:Fair
Socorro, New Mexico. Recited. Quality: Good.
Leyba, New Mexico. Quality: Fair.
Vequita, New Mexico. Quality:Fair
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Informant sings both parts of a humorous dialogue between an old man and his young wife, who married him for his money. Quality: Fair.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Agglutinate school song using the hours of the morning as an exercise in counting from one to ten. Quality: Good.
