Lincoln Portrait, for speaker and orchestra

Lincoln Portrait, for speaker and orchestra, is a 1942 work by American composer Aaron Copland, some 16–18 minutes in length. Its scoring relies on the brass section at the opening and for climaxes; its speaker narrates excerpts from Lincoln's documents, notably the text of his Gettysburg Address. (The work is sometimes called "A Lincoln Portrait" but it was not published under this title.)