Sort by Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise (Free subscription) - 01/18/2009 - YouTube
tiny part of his "Lincoln Portrait" performance with the Chicago Symphony at Millennium Park. from Lincoln's "Think Anew. Act Anew"...
Sort by Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise (Free subscription) - 01/18/2009
A brief video of the future president reciting Copland's Lincoln Portrait, with William Eddins conducting the Chicago Symphony, Millennium Park, September 11, 2005. Eddins described his collaboration with Obama on his blog; Marc Geelhoed was in the crowd. (Via Mme...
Sort by The Collaborative Piano Blog (Free subscription) - 07/04/2009
Here's Barack Obama with the Chicago Symphony in 2005 (when he was still in the Senate) in an excerpt of Copland's Lincoln Portrait (previously seen here ):
Sort by Deceptively Simple (Free subscription) - 11/06/2008
In the summer of 2005, Illinois' then-Senator Barack Obama joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to narrate Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait. The concert took place in Millennium Park's Pritzker Pavilion on September 11, and was conducted by William Eddins. The audio...
Sort by the search for artistry (Free subscription) - 11/06/2008
I love, LOVE Aaron Copland's music. To me, he remains the quintessential American composer, who made something out of the populist style that was so popular in the beginning of the 20th century. I think A Lincoln Portrait is a very underrated piece, perhaps seen by some as a gimmick because of the use of spoken word, but presented in the right context, it can be incredibly moving. Case in point: I...
