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<\/a>, Maya Hawke<\/a> and Laurie Anderson, who is serving as co-artistic director with composer Philip Glass.<\/p>\n De Niro is scheduled to read excerpts from Lincoln\u2019s \u201cLyceum Address,\u201d one of the future president\u2019s earliest major speeches. Delivered by Lincoln in 1838 to a young men\u2019s debating society in Springfield, Illinois, \u201cThe Lyceum Address\u201d is a warning against mob violence and the dangers it creates for a democratic society.<\/p>\n Glass used Lincoln\u2019s speech as inspiration for his Symphony No. 15, \u201cLincoln,\u201d which had been scheduled to premiere at the Kennedy Center in June. But Glass announced<\/a> in January he was calling off the performance, citing President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> ouster of the center\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n \u201cThe values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony,\u201d Glass said in a statement at the time.<\/p>\n De Niro has been a prominent critic of Trump, who has made the center a focus of his war on so-called \u201cwoke\u201d culture. The new board Trump appointed announced it would rename the venue the Trump Kennedy Center, a change that lawmakers and scholars say requires approval from Congress.<\/p>\n Last month, Trump announced the venue would shut down in July for construction he expects to last two years. Numerous artists besides Glass had withdrawn from planned appearances, including Ren\u00e9e Fleming, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Bela Fleck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 After a career defined by playing gangsters, an avenging taxi driver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[30056,63335,75,84,83,9,24,63,15078],"class_list":["post-151404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-carnegie-hall","tag-lyceum-address","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-robert-de-niro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Robert_De_Niro_Carnegie_Hall_10604.jpg\")
FILE \u2013 Elvis Costello attends the premiere of, \u201cMarty Supreme,\u201d at Regal Times Square on Dec. 16, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP, File)<\/p>\n