DESCRIPTION: Compared to any other work in the Brass Band of Columbus repertoire, as much (or more) has been written about Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait. The digital age makes it easy to find fascinating examples, including https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/14/specials/copland-onlincoln.html and http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/enews/2009/march/insider.html . In this arrangement for brass band, the BBC's own Joe Galvin recites the words of Abraham Lincoln himself - carefully selected by Copland to pair with his evocative musical backdrop. Recorded at the Chautauqua (NY) Institution amphitheater on July 5, 2015 - in the sesquicentennial year of the end of the Civil War.
