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==Popular culture== {{Further|Lincoln Portrait}} ''[[Lincoln Portrait]]'', a classical orchestral work written by American composer [[Aaron Copland]], features closing phrases of the Gettysburg Address, which lead to the orchestral closing [[crescendo]]. The work involves a full orchestra, and utilizes a brass section at climactic moments. The work features a narrated reading of excerpts of Lincoln's great documents, including the Gettysburg Address. The intoned reading from the Address uses only the last two sentences starting with the words, "That from these honored dead ...".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Taubman |first1=Howard |author-link1=Howard Taubman |title=Music: Magical Impact; Copland's 'Lincoln Portrait' Makes Vivid Impression at Fete in Caracas |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/03/30/archives/music-magical-impact-coplands-lincoln-portrait-makes-vivid.html |access-date=September 22, 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 30, 1957 |page=12}}</ref>
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