Excellent guess, Laurie, but not correct. On the program was actually the entire Elijah, but I didn't want to post a 2 hour link.
I will specify hint #1: It was a big and most important event to the course of history.

Hint #2: It was not a commemorative event of any kind.

Hint #3:
   

Hint #4 - dedicated to our wonderful host so dedicated to both - the forum (THANK YOU!!) as well as the following:
   

Eva, this is a great question. I am baffled.

Thanks, Roger!
Hint #5: Can someone please help and tell what is depicted in #3, and explicitly explain what #4 represents?

(10-04-2015, 10:09 AM)RJNorton Wrote: Eva, this is a great question.

Roger, I think it wasn't. A great question to me would allow to and make many participate. This one failed, or I did in attracting as no one even tried #5.

Before giving up I'll try this last hint:
This is the Native Plains version of the accommodation shown in #3:
   
#3 shows the Native Northeast US/Canadian "type".

Chicago Exposition?

Thanks for guessing, Laurie. Chicago is correct, but not the exposition. Now, what is the Indian accommodation? Plus remember the event was important for the course history took (long before the Exposition and well-known to everyone interested in Abraham Lincoln/the CW).

(10-04-2015, 02:31 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Thanks for guessing, Laurie. Chicago is correct, but not the exposition. Now, what is the Indian accommodation? Plus remember the event was important for the course history took (long before the Exposition and well-known to everyone interested in Abraham Lincoln/the CW).

Hey, Eva!

Was it the 1860 Republican Convention, which was held in the Wigwam Building in Chicago?

My memory of all such stuff is so hazy!

--Jim

Kudos Jim, this is correct - and thanks for relieving/releasing me.
My source is the Lincoln bio by Jörg Nagler, Professor at Jena University and (I'd think) German's #1 authority on the matter.
https://books.google.de/books?id=ESHIYwt...osCh1LQA4i

Since I find most oratorios quite depressing there are none in the STG prize vault, but Mendelssohn also composed the ballet music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (and there's plenty of ballet in the vault).
Jim, you win tickets for John Neumeier's fantastic "Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Hamburger Staatsoper:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=akFrzmuKn6o

Wow! Thanks, Eva.

That video was stunning; the lighting and other effects made it seem like a view of another world.

--Jim

A person who participated in the "Lincoln saga was the first American to achieve a doctoral promotion at a German university. Who?

Edward Everett?

Kudos, Roger - you stumped me!!! I was sure this one would last a while!
Everett, who delivered the lenghry oration at Gettysburg, was granted the title at Göttingen University in 1817:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Everett
Roger, you should be given a PhD, too, for all your knowledge!!! However, you win my best wishes for the Cubs to continue to win-win-win!!!