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Lincoln in New Salem

by Corey Smith

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Ann Rutledge 03:49
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Wrestling 04:27
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War 06:03
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Ann's Grave 04:27

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LINCOLN IN NEW SALEM
an experimental opera by Corey Smith

premiered January 5-7 2023 at the Steppenwolf Theater / as part of the LOOKOUT series / performed by Courtney Mackedanz, Zachary Nicol, Bryan Saner, Corey Smith

Special thanks to: Brytton Bjorngaard, TJ Cole, Hope Esser, Ellie Mejia, Yolanda Cesta Cursach Montilla, Graham Peck, Lauren Steinberg, Lindsey Barlag Thornton, High Concept Labs, Hyde Park Art Center, University of Illinois Springfield Center for Lincoln Studies.


Sources:

Letters by William Greene and Elizabeth Abell cataloged by D.L. Wilson in Herndon’s Informants: Letters, interviews, and statements about Abraham Lincoln (1998)

Surveys for Reason Shipley, Jesse Gumm, and William G. Cantrall, performed by Abaraham Lincoln in 1834. The Papers of Abraham Lincoln Digital Library catalog numbers D209345, D200030, and D302441

“Ann Rutledge” by Edgar Lee Masters appears in Spoon River Anthology (1915)
“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” by Walt Whitman appears in Leaves of Grass (fourth edition 1867)

“Death” and “Pilgrim Stranger” anthologized in Songs Lincoln Loved by J. Lair and W.H. Townsend (1954)

“News has a kind of mystery” is an aria from Nixon in China by John Adams (1987)
Field recordings collected in 2022 from the banks of the Sangamon River, Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site, and Bridgeport Chicago

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released January 5, 2023

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Corey Smith Chicago, Illinois

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