The Obamas were in the audience and the stage was packed with stars as the newly refurbished Ford’s Theatre celebrated Lincoln’s bicentennial, but “the appearance that drew the night’s biggest round of ‘oohs’ was that by an inanimate object. After violinist Joshua Bell performed early in the program, it was revealed to the crowd that the instrument he used during ‘My Lord, What a Morning’ was last played at Ford’s on April 14, 1865 — the night of Lincoln’s assassination.”