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Marian Anderson: the Lincoln Memorial Concert is a 1939 documentary film which documents a concert performance by African American opera singer Marian Anderson after the Daughters of the American Revolution ( DAR ) had her barred from singing in Washington D. C .' s Constitution Hall because she was black.

Eleanor Roosevelt helped hold the concert at Lincoln Memorial, on federal property, during the administration of a Democratic President and Congress.

With the aid of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anderson performed a critically acclaimed open-air concert on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. She sang before a crowd of more than 75, 000 people and a radio audience in the millions.

Anderson in her 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial

President Roosevelt and Walter White, then-executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Anderson's manager, impresario Sol Hurok, persuaded Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to arrange an open air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

* Raymond Arsenault, The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the concert that awakened America ( 2009 ).

That year, Eisfeld conducted the Orchestra's memorial concert for the recently assassinated Abraham Lincoln, but in a peculiar turn of events which were criticized in the New York press, the Philharmonic omitted the last movement, " Ode to Joy ", as being inappropriate for the occasion.

In September 1962, the Philharmonic commissioned Aaron Copland to write a new work, Connotations For Orchestra, for the opening concert of the new Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

* Alice Tully Hall a 1, 095-seat concert hall located within the Juilliard School building ; the home stage of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

In February 1990, Carter led an all-star big band at the Lincoln Center in a concert tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.

The Lincoln Center cast reassembled for a one-night-only concert performance of Anything Goes in New York in 2002.

The concert staging of Passion was televised as part of Live from Lincoln Center.

As there could be no Modern Jazz Quartet without the two principals Lewis and Jackson, the group disbanded after going out with a rollicking concert in November at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.

On 25 October 2008, at 06: 00 GMT, Feeder, a British rock band, were travelling from Glasgow to Lincoln having played a concert at the Glasgow Barrowlands the night before.

On June 15, 1998, Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS presented an all-star fully staged one-night-only concert at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center.

The Nordic Choir has also appeared throughout the United States, performing in well-known concert halls as Lincoln Center in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C. Additionally, Luther College has the largest collegiate choral program in the United States with almost 600 student singers.

The album, which debuted as a concert to a sold-out house at Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series in January 2007, includes several of Nyro's biggest hits (" Stoned Soul Picnic ", " Stoney End ") as well as some of her lesser known gems.

Dever sang at a Lincoln Center live concert telecast with Pavarotti and performed the role of Dalila opposite Plácido Domingo's Samson in 1998 ( Mexico City ).

In 1965, they were paired again in a performance of Rossini's Semiramide with the Opera Company of Boston, and sang in a joint concert on October 15, 1979, which was telecasted as " Live from Lincoln Center ".

All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis ( 1994 ) was an interactive concert work and a CD-ROM ( perhaps the first of its kind ), Making Music ( 1995 ), Making More Music ( 1998 ) were his first works for children, and an interactive ' Media Poem ', Intimate Immensity, premiered at the Lincoln Center Festival in NY ( 1997 ).

The following year it was performed by the choir at the Lincoln Festival in New York ; a concert version was performed at the BBC Proms the same year.

A concert performance on 26 October 2007 at the Lincoln Center in New York City paid homage to the 50th anniversary of Sedaka's debut in show business.

* Lincoln Hall, a concert hall in Chicago, Illinois.

Cooke disliked the crime reports she was assigned by the News, finding distasteful the paper's handling of such stories, and preferring to expand the paper's coverage of the arts-for instance, traveling at her own cost to cover Marian Anderson's historic open-air concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939.

The season will open at the new Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park on November 20 at 8:30 p.m. with a concert by the Mills Chamber Players.

* 1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

The Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, Illinois presented a staged concert on August 26 and 27, 2005, with Audra McDonald ( Fay ), Michael Cerveris ( Hapgood ) and Patti LuPone ( Cora ).

Frank Gehry's detailed, stainless steel band shell, the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, hosts the classical Grant Park Music Festival concert series.

In 1997, McLean performed " American Pie " with Garth Brooks at Brooks ' free concert in Central Park in New York City.

In January 1996, Devo performed a reunion concert at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Originally, it was scheduled to be released in August 1997, when he would promote it with a concert in Central Park.

They have done so in every decade since the 1970 breakup, most famously for 1981's " The Concert in Central Park ", which attracted more than 500, 000 people, making it the 7th-most attended concert in the history of music.

* 1981 – Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York's Central Park.

For his follow-up, Hands of Jack the Ripper, Sutch assembled British rock celebrities for a concert at the Carshalton Park Rock ' n ' Roll Festival.

At their first concert, They Might Be Giants performed under the name El Grupo De Rock and Roll, because the show was a Sandinista rally in Central Park, and all of the audience members spoke Spanish Soon discarding this title, the band assumed the name of a 1971 film They Might Be Giants ( starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward ), which is in turn taken from a Don Quixote passage about how Quixote mistook windmills for evil giants.

The crowd and stage in 1969. The concert was originally scheduled to take place in the Mills Industrial Park () in the town of Wallkill, New York, which Woodstock Ventures had leased for $ 10, 000 in the Spring of 1969.

She later actually did at Johnny Rotten's flat prior to a concert at Victoria Park.

** The Prince's Trust concert is held in Hyde Park, London, and is attended by 150, 000 people.

* April 29 – The fourth anniversary of the Broadway musical Hair is celebrated with a free concert at a Central Park bandshell, followed by dinner at the Four Seasons.

* August 29 – The Beatles end their US tour with a concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California.

* September 19 – Simon & Garfunkel perform The Concert in Central Park, a free concert in New York in front of approximately half a million people.

During 1976, Queen played one of their most famous gigs, a free concert in Hyde Park, London.

In December 2008, Blur announced they would reunite for a concert at London's Hyde Park on 3 July 2009.

He appeared at Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland, with vibraphonist Gary Burton in July 1986 and on 6 September 1987 gave a concert in New York ’ s Central Park, in the city where he spent his childhood.

On September 6, 1987, his quintet gave a concert in New York's Central Park, which was recorded and, in 1994, released in compact disk format as The Central Park Concert.

On 28 May 2005, in celebration of his approaching 65th birthday, Jones returned to his homeland to perform a concert in Ynysangharad Park, Pontypridd before a crowd of about 20, 000.

On the Fourth, annual festivities include a reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of the Old Courthouse, a waiter's race in Phoenix Park, a parade, a country music concert, and fireworks.

In 1981, they got together again for the famous concert in Central Park, followed by a world tour and an aborted reunion album, to have been entitled Think Too Much, which was eventually released ( without Garfunkel ) as Hearts and Bones.