After a career defined by playing gangsters, an avenging taxi driver and a paranoid prize fighter, Robert De Niro will be issuing a call for civility, as first spoken by Abraham Lincoln.
The Oscar-winning actor is a featured performer for a Tuesday night event at Carnegie Hall, the 39th annual benefit concert for the nonprofit cultural organization Tibet House US. Others expected to be on stage include Elvis Costello, Maya Hawke and Laurie Anderson, who is serving as co-artistic director with composer Philip Glass.
De Niro is scheduled to read excerpts from Lincoln's “Lyceum Address,” one of the future president's earliest major spe...





