{"id":2491858,"date":"2026-07-07T13:32:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2491858"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:32:41","slug":"philip-glass-lincoln-symphony-premieres-at-tanglewood-not-kennedy-center-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/philip-glass-lincoln-symphony-premieres-at-tanglewood-not-kennedy-center-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Glass\u2019 Lincoln symphony premieres at Tanglewood, not Kennedy Center : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Baritone Zachary James and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Karen Kamensek, perform Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 15 ‘Lincoln’ at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. on July 5, 2026.
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Once upon a time, it seemed like a natural fit for composer Philip Glass<\/a> to have his latest symphony premiered at the Kennedy Center, during the country’s 250th anniversary year. The work honors Abraham Lincoln; Glass is a revered American composer who was awarded the National Medal of Arts<\/a> in 2015.<\/p>\n

But things didn’t go quite that way. Instead, the piece had its world debut Sunday with the Boston Symphony Orchestra<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Abraham Lincoln has appeared as a character in several of Philip Glass’ works already, including the stage work The Civil Wars<\/em> and in the opera Appomattox<\/em>. An animatronic Lincoln \u2014 not unlike the one in the Hall of Presidents at Walt Disney World \u2014 even appears in Glass’ opera The Perfect American<\/em>, about Walt Disney; Disney has a duet with the machine version of Lincoln.<\/p>\n