Letters from Lincoln composed by Michael Daugherty

Michael Daugherty
Letters from Lincoln (2009)
for Baritone and Orchestra
(in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth)
Commissioned by the Spokane Symphony and funded by the Bruce Ferden Endowment Fund for New Music

This serious work was performed by the Spokane Symphony in March, 2009.  The complete text can be found at  http://www.spokanesymphony.org/zlcms/editor/uploads/files/Letters%20From%20Lincoln%20Text.pdf

A light-hearted excerpt is from Lincoln’s autobiography: Abraham Lincoln is My Name (1824-26, Indiana)
Abraham Lincoln is my name
And with my pen I wrote the same
I wrote in both haste and speed
And left it here for fools to read
Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen
He will be good but God knows when
Swift as an Indian arrow
Fly like a shooting star
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

The library WILL acquire copies of this as soon as the music is released on CD.