For 10 points—name this work for orchestra and a speaker who reads excerpts of letters by the namesake President, by Aaron Copland.
Commissioned by André Kostelanetz of the Cincinnati Symphony, this 1942 work in C-major is roughly fourteen minutes long. In the first movement is a transformation of "Springfield Mountain," and a folk song similar to "Camptown Races" can be heard in the second movement. For 10 points—name this work for orchestra and a speaker who reads excerpts of letters by the namesake President, by Aaron Copland.
Commissioned by André Kostelanetz of the Cincinnati Symphony, this 1942 work in C-major is roughly fourteen minutes long.
{Lincoln Portrait}