Saturday night with Mencken

The Baltimore Sun's Tim Smith reviews a re-creation of the Saturday Night Club, whose beer-soaked performances of Beethoven and other classics were immortalized in some of the most hilarious prose of the club's pianist, H.L. Mencken:

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/classicalmusic/2010/04/hl_menckens_saturday_night_clu.html#more

Smith proposes a recording of the club's salon-orchestra arrangements. I second the motion.