Hershey Felder in Abe Lincoln's Piano

[Anita]

Roger, I never know what's in store when I click one of your words in "blue". That was so much fun. Even my hubby came in to check it out. First thing he commented on was the long hair!

I just read Justin Taylor's review of Felder's performance as "... Charles Leale, an army surgeon and the first doctor to tend to Abraham Lincoln on the night of his assassination..." ..." Once Felder gets to the assassination and its aftermath, he hews closely to the details provided in Leale's 1909 address "Lincoln's Last Hours," but he invents one shamelessly sentimental episode: Leale sings "My Old Kentucky Home" into the ear of the comatose Lincoln."
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/an-...id=9024147

I may not want to pay $75 a ticket to go to the Geffen performance.

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Bill, Lincoln liked Louis Moreau Gottschalk an American composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano works. Lincoln liked his " Union (Fantasy on Patriotic Airs)." You can listen to it at http://www.npr.org/2009/02/16/100675699/...d-an-ipod.