Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait
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Lincoln Portrait has become one of Copland’s most-performed works, familiar to generations of audiences at patriotic occasions. The narration has been delivered by many celebrities and political figures, including Barack Obama, who read the part with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2005 in a performance led by William Eddins, a former associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra who was the broadcast host of the June 23 Juneteenth concert. Copland himself conducted the work with the Minnesota Orchestra in 1975. Retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan C. Page narrated it with the Orchestra in November 2016 and reprised that role for this performance.
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