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Singer Judy Collins and Friends to bring the words of Lincoln to life in Cooper Union

Legendary folk singer Judy Collins; folk pop icon Dar Williams; Broadway star André DeShields; award winning actor Stephen Lang; and The Classical Theater of Harlem will bring the words and ideas of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass to life on 

Wednesday, February 13, 2014
6:30 p.m.
Cooper Union Great Hall
7 East 7th St., NYC 10003 (b/w 3rd and 4th Aves)
Free and Open to the Public

This special program entitled, “The Civil War in Words and Music”  is sponsored by Cooper Union, the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation, and the New York State Archives Partnership Trust.

The program will feature signers Collins and Williams in concert, reprising songs of the Civil War.  The musical portion of the program will be balanced with dramatic readings of speeches by the 16th president and famed abolitionist Douglass by Lang and DeShields.  Gospel music will be provided by The Classical Theater of Harlem. The Classical Theatre of Harlem is a not-for-profit professional theatre company that presents original adaptations of works by well-known and contemporary playwrights.

For more than a century, the Great Hall of the Cooper Union has served as a bastion of free speech and a witness to the flow of American history and ideas.  The venue will forever be known as the site of one of President Lincoln’s most powerful early speeches.

“The Civil War in Words and Music” is part of a series of programs created by the three sponsoring organizations to commemorate the Civil War Sesquicentennial which, nationally, extends through 2015.

For more information on this program, go to www.cooper.edu; events@cooper.edu or call 212-353-4195