Happy Independence Day! I have two Beautiful Music offerings for you today. First, a performance of THE ANACREONTIC SONG, which was used for an 18th century gentlemen's music club. It was borrowed as ...

It’s often characterized as a British officers’ drinking song, but it’s hardly that. “The Anacreontic Song” was the official song of an 18th-century club of London “wealthy men of social rank” that ...