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Lincoln’s Birthday Music and Legacy

Lincoln’s Birthday Music and Legacy

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Abraham Lincoln was born on this date in 1809. They sure don’t make ‘em like they used to.

James Earl Jones in Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait”

Roy Harris (born on this date in 1898), Symphony No. 6 “Gettysburg”

Paul Turok, “Variations on an American Song: Aspects of Lincoln and Liberty”

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