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Spokane's Lincoln Festival
Celebrating
Lincoln's Ideals
in a
New Century
January - March 2009
Presented by
Spokane Symphony
and
Fox Theater Spokane
in collaboration with the
Spokane Community of Arts
Organization
This Festival has been endorsed by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Music Director Eckart Preu talks about the Spokane Lincoln Festival
January 6 - February 27: A HOUSE DIVIDED: THE LEGACY OF LINCOLN EXHIBITION
Chase Gallery, Spokane City Hall
"A House Divided: The Legacy of Lincoln," a group exhibition in conjunction with the Spokane Symphony's festival celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, sponsored by the Spokane Arts commission.
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January 24, 2009: THE WORLD COMES WEST - A FAMILY CONCERT
Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox
Spokane Symphony Family Concert featuring a musical world tour of immigrants coming west following President Lincoln's Homestead Act.
February 3, 4 and 5, 2009:
WHAT LINCOLN SHOULD HAVE HEARD - SPOKANE SYMPHONY CHAMBER SOIREE
Feb. 3 and 4 at the Marie Antoinette Ballroom, The Davenport Hotel
Feb. 5 at the Jacklin Arts and Clutural Center at the Old Church, Post Falls
Spokane Symphony musicians presenting chamber music from the era of Lincoln's life.
February 14, 2009: SPOKANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
River Park Square AMC Theater
The 11th Annual Spokane International Film Festival with participate in the Spokane Lincoln Festival with a "festival within a festival" with the showing of Fauborg Treme: the Untold Story of Black New Orleans, directed by Lolis Eric Elie and Dawn Logsdon. The showing with be Saturday, Feb. 14 at noon.
February 22, 2009: ALVIN AILEY II AMERICAN DANCE THEATER
Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox
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February 25-27, 2009: MICHAEL DAUGHERTY, COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE
Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox
Michael Daugherty is one of the most performed and commissioned American composers of his generation. Daugherty came to international attention when his Metropolis Symphony (1988-93), a tribute to the Superman comics, was performed in 1995 at Carnegie Hall.
The composer is best known for his ability to infuse the spirit of icons of the American pop culture into his work without loosing the attention to structure that characterizes classical music. He acknowledges his debt to pop culture, saying:
"For me icons serve as a way to have an emotional reason to compose a new work. I get ideas for my compositions by browsing through second book stores, antique shops, and small towns that I find driving on the back roads of America. The icon can be an old postcard, magazine, photograph, knick-knack, matchbook, piece of furniture or roadmap. Like Ives and Mahler, I use icons in my music to provide the listener and performer with a layer of reference. However, one does not need the reference of the icon to appreciate my music. It is merely one level among many in the musical, contrapuntal fabric of my compositions."
While composing Letters from Lincoln, it was the writings of Abraham Lincoln, beloved and possibly best known of American presidents, that inspired Daugherty. To learn more, visit Michael Daugherty's website.
February 28 & March 1, 2009
LETTERS FROM LINCOLN
Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox
World premiere of Letters from Lincoln, written by contemporary American composer Michael Daugherty for the Spokane Symphony and world renowned baritone Thomas Hampson. The Daugherty work was commissioned by the Spokane Symphony and is part of the national celebration of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial.
© 2009 Spokane Symphony.