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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.

Date:
Sunday, April 12, 2026
Time:
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Friend Center - The Convocation Room (Friend 113)
Audience:
  Friends of Princeton University Library     Independent Scholar / Outside Researcher     Member of the Public     Princeton Alumni     Princeton Faculty/Researcher     Princeton Graduate Students     Princeton Staff     Princeton Student     Student Friends of Princeton University Library  
Categories:
  Events     Exhibitions  
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