Pre-concert lecture at 7:15 in the Lower Lobby. Michael Haithcock, conductor, Stephen West, narrator. Marking the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination and the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address on November 19th, this “Dedications and Anniversaries” program pays homage to these seminal moments in American history. Other compositional tributes to anniversaries, specific people, and ideas round out a program that concludes with Aaron Copland’s portrait of a great American president. PROGRAM: Puts- Elegy; Stravinsky - Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Lang - Lying, Cheating, Stealing; Grainger - Bell Piece; Mailman - For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night, op. 80; Copland - Lincoln Portrait Stephen West (narrator)