Eric W. Sawyer
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Eric W. Sawyer is an American orchestral composer, pianist and professor of music at Amherst College. He has studied as an undergraduate at Harvard College, where he was selected as a Harvard Junior F
Our American Cousin, 2008
William Hite as Ned Spofford and Keith Phares as Newton Arvin in a scene from The Scarlet Professor by Eric Sawyer and Harley Erdman in 2017
Ford's Theatre
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Ford's Theatre is a theater in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863. In 1865, it was the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. The theater was later used as a warehouse
Eric W. Sawyer
…2009. Along with librettist and University of California, Berkeley, English lecturer John Shoptaw, Sawyer has composed an opera based upon a play set in Ford's Theatre the night United States President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. The play, Our American Cousin, by playwright Tom Taylor, is a…
The building in 2026
A depiction of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, showing Booth, Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Clara Harris, and Henry Rathbone
View from beneath the balcony. The Presidential Box is on the right.
Ford's Theatre in 1865