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Concord's Bicentennial Celebration of Abraham Lincoln's Birth
"That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom. . . ."
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
 A warm welcome to fellow citizens and friends to come together in these
trying times to commemorate the life of one of our greatest and most beloved
public servants in an evening of music, song, presentations, drama, and
spirited celebration.
"I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms..."
Abraham Lincoln
Sponsored by The Steinberg-Lalli Charitable Foundation and the Concord Historical Commission.
7 pm, Friday, February 13, 2009
Concord-Carlisle High School Auditorium
FEATURING:
Civil War era music and poetry
An authentic re-enactment of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
An original musical composition, commissioned especially for this event, and performed for the first time by librettist John Sterling Walker and David Conte, Profesesor of Composition and Conductor at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Noted Lincoln scholars will speak on:
- Lincoln as depicted in photography and sculpture (Dr. Walter B. Lundberg, Jr., Yale University, Photography Consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Lincoln and the Abolition Movement (Dr. John Stauffer, Professor of English and African American Studies, Harvard University)
- Lincoln as a speechmaker (Dr. David Zarefsky, Professor of Communications, Northwestern University)
- Lincoln and Emerson (Richard Kotlarz, Lecturer on Transcendentalism)
- Lincoln and the concept of the self made man (James Lundberg, Sacred Heart University)
For tickets and further information visit www.concord200.org
Art Credits: Page designed by Windfall. Backgrounds by Donna Cunningham. Other images courtesy of Clipart.com.
 
 
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