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Robert De Niro delivers Lincoln’s civility warning at a Carnegie Hall benefit
- On Tuesday night, Robert De Niro walked onto Carnegie Hall's stage unannounced to loud applause and recited excerpts from Abraham Lincoln's 1838 Lyceum Address at the Tibet House US benefit.
- Numerous artists had withdrawn from planned appearances before the benefit, including Renée Fleming, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Bela Fleck, amid tensions over cultural institutions and the president's criticisms.
- Rather than a new address, De Niro read prepared 19th-century lines in an even voice, halting at first then growing firmer while invoking reason and the Constitution.
- The benefit opened with the Drepung Gomang Monks and spanned many genres during the nearly three-hour show Tuesday night, while Trump's name was rarely spoken.
- Glass previously canceled a Kennedy Center premiere earlier this year, citing Trump's ouster of leadership and conflicting institutional values, linking the speech to new work.
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Robert De Niro delivers Abraham Lincoln’s civility warning at a Carnegie Hall benefit
Robert De Niro walked onto Carnegie Hall’s stage Tuesday night, unannounced and to loud applause. He didn’t make any speeches, at least none of his own. After a career defined by playing gangsters, an avenging taxi driver and a paranoid prize fighter, the Oscar-winning actor recited a call for civility, as first spoken by Abraham Lincoln.
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Robert De Niro appeared at Carnegie Hall yesterday to recite excerpts from a Philip Glass opera centered on Abraham Lincoln.
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Robert De Niro delivers Lincoln’s civility warning at a Carnegie Hall benefit
NEW YORK (AP) — Robert De Niro walked onto Carnegie Hall's stage Tuesday night, unannounced and to loud applause. He didn't make any speeches, at least none of…
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