Founding Families and Their Musical World

Our Founding Families deserve to be known for their love of music as well as of liberty. The Practitioners of Musick will show how the amateur performers in the Washington, Jefferson, Stockton, Hopkinson, Franklin, and Henry families kept London cultural life alive across the Atlantic. The program will include selections by Handel, Arne, Hopkinson, and Reinagle, and other masters with an illustrated lecture of the families’ surviving portraits, instruments, sheet music, and play scripts.

Suitable for children 14 and up.

Image credit: Replica of Nelly Park Custis’s harpsichord in Mt. Vernon’s New Room. Courtesy of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association.