Speechification

A typically classy Studio 360 programme, in their ‘American Icons’ series, about a building and a man, but a whole lot more - the Lincoln Memorial, and Abraham Lincoln, but also America itself. Highlights? A scratchy recording of Frank Lloyd Wright not exactly sparing the rod when describing the memorial, the moving recollections of Dr. King’s justly legendary speech and Marion Anderson’s less well known but almost equally significant performance, and the music includes phrases from one of my favourite pieces, Aaron Copland’s ‘Billy the Kid’.

Studio 360: American Icons: The Lincoln Memorial (mp3)

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