Tag: Abraham Lincoln
'Square Grand Piano Owned by Mary Todd Lincoln's Sister Restored by Springfield Art Association
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'Home Sweet Home: Adelina Patti, the Soprano Who Sang for President Abraham Lincoln
In 1862, during the American Civil War, soprano Adelina Patti visited the White House and sang for Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary. Patti--then only 19, yet already well known in the U.S.--sang a number of songs, ending with "Home Sweet Home," a song requested by Lincoln himself. -
'QUIZ: How Well Do You Know Your Black Classical Music History?
As Classicalite's favorite classical music radio station reminded us, the historian Carter G. Woodson chose the second week of February in 1926 to be deemed "Negro History Week" because the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12) and Frederick Douglass (Feb. 14) occurred in that same week.