(02-06-2019, 09:49 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: I agree, and I seem to recall it is the performance where Robert acted as a "Statist" (= not a serious role, rather living decoration, laymen...must look up the term), and there was some premonition with the entire performance.
As for Vinnie Ream - I wonder what a harp cost back then. It costs as much as a car now...
Wow, that was quick Steve. Congrats. Also congrats to Eva - who now needs to explain the relationship to the opera and "Robert," whom I assume is Robert Lincoln??
(02-06-2019, 01:06 PM)L Verge Wrote:
(02-06-2019, 09:49 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: I agree, and I seem to recall it is the performance where Robert acted as a "Statist" (= not a serious role, rather living decoration, laymen...must look up the term), and there was some premonition with the entire performance.
As for Vinnie Ream - I wonder what a harp cost back then. It costs as much as a car now...
Wow, that was quick Steve. Congrats. Also congrats to Eva - who now needs to explain the relationship to the opera and "Robert," whom I assume is Robert Lincoln??
My source also gave a tidbit related to Walt Whitman's attending the same opera there in April and exiting the theater to hear the newsboys shouting that Ft. Sumter had been fired upon.