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Post by dreamer on Oct 3, 2006 4:51:54 GMT -5
Has any of you heard the CD by Aaron Copland "Lincoln Portrait & other Works" Kate is performing a stunning speech on that. Is anybody aware of some other works? Hope and pray!!!
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Post by Shaun on Oct 3, 2006 13:09:07 GMT -5
Never heard of it. Thanks for mentioning it, I'll keep an eye out for it. Welcome to the board!
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Post by dreamer on Oct 3, 2006 13:37:22 GMT -5
Never heard of it. Thanks for mentioning it, I'll keep an eye out for it. Welcome to the board! Thank's ;D
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Post by dreamer on Oct 29, 2006 10:43:32 GMT -5
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Post by Shaun on Oct 29, 2006 14:19:40 GMT -5
I just listened to it. The beautiful music and Kate's god given gift for speech making makes a really great combination. Does anyone know when KH gave this speech?
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Post by dreamer on Nov 5, 2006 7:02:01 GMT -5
Lincoln Portrait is made in Cincinnati in 1985-86
From Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait - original text for Copland's narration: Narrator: Kate
"Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history." That is what he said. That is what Abraham Lincoln said. "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility." He was born in Kentucky, raised in Indiana, and lived in Illinois. And this is what he said. This is what Abe Lincoln said. "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we will save our country." [Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862] When standing erect he was six feet four inches tall, and this is what he said. He said: "It is the eternal struggle between two principles, right and wrong, throughout the world. It is the same spirit that says 'you toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it.' No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation, and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle." Lincoln was a quiet man. Abe Lincoln was a quiet and a melancholy man. But when he spoke of democracy, this is what he said. He said: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy." Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of these United States, is everlasting in the memory of his countrymen. For on the battleground at Gettysburg, this is what he said: He said: "That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
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Post by dreamer on Nov 5, 2006 7:03:10 GMT -5
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Post by dreamer on Aug 23, 2009 6:11:48 GMT -5
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Post by babytheleopard on Aug 23, 2009 14:44:24 GMT -5
WOW never knew about this!! Thanks for sharing dreamer! ;D
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Post by martha on Aug 26, 2009 9:33:34 GMT -5
thanks for posting this youtube audio, dreamer. i of course have heard many narrator and musical groups perform this piece over the years ... it premiered in 1942 ... for those in other countries, here's a bit of background on the musical and verbal poem/performance piece that we call "the lincoln portrait" www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2007-07/Sound_of_Freedom.htmbut ah, that kate. what a delivery ....
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Post by Alicia on Aug 26, 2009 20:09:14 GMT -5
Last year, at the Fourth of July celebration in my city, Lauren Bacall came to narrate this to the San Francisco Symphony. I was fortunate enough to be there, and it was quite the unexpected surprise!
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Post by gottamatch on Aug 26, 2009 20:53:08 GMT -5
WHAT! You were in the same place as Betty / Lauren / Baby / The Look Bacall?!
Alicia I am soooooo jealous. Any pictorials to share?!!?!?!?!?
Jess
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