Upcoming Events:

Sunday October 12 at 2:00 pm: Bethesda House Concert & Potluck

Another of Richard White’s famous music/potluck parties at his gracious art-filled home in Bethesda! Carl Banner, solo piano.
Program:

Brahms Variations in D, Op. 21#1
Alban Berg Sonata in Bm, Op. 1
Stravinsky Sonata (1923)
Chopin Ballade #3 in Ab, Op. 47

Doors open 2pm. Guests are encouraged to bring food/wine to share. Host will provide two hot hors d'oeuvres & punch.

Admission $25 plus contribution of food or drink.

Saturday November 15, 2025 at 5:00 pm:
House Concert & Potluck Dinner
Rhonda Buckley-Bishop, saxophone, Carl Banner, piano,
Anne Becker, poet

Selections from Gabriel Fauré’s “La Bonne Chanson”, arranged for soprano saxophone and piano; Piano Sonata (1923) by Igor Stravinsky; “The Water is Wide, Daisy Bell” by Andrew Stiller (1987); Meseli (from Op. 25) by Adnan Saygun; Chopin - Two Nocturnes. Poetry of Anne Becker.

BannerArts is at 7502 Flower Ave, Takoma Park MD. Admission is $20, advance only, plus dish or drink to share. Hosts will provide one main dish and wine. Limited to 25 guests.

Saturday December 13, 2025 at 5:00 pm, (date & program tentative):
House Concert & Potluck Dinner
Carl Banner, piano, at BannerArts

J.S. Bach - Prelude & Fugue in Bbm, WTCI
George Frideric Handel - Aria con Variazioni
Frédéric Chopin - Ballade #2 in F, Op. 38; Etude in E, Op. 10#3; Nocturne in G, Op. 37#2
Robert Schumann - Reconnaissance; Des Abends; Romanze
Johannes Brahms - Intermezzo in Eb, Op. 117#1
Scott Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag

BannerArts is at 7502 Flower Ave, Takoma Park MD. Admission is $20, advance only, plus dish or drink to share. Hosts will provide one main dish and wine. Limited to 25 guests.

New Memoir (pdf):
Carl Banner: My Life and Thought

"What is the equation that includes suffering and creative work as terms?"

This memoir is a collection of Banner's thoughts about his life and music, and a reflection on the difficult childhood that shaped him as an artist. It is not for the faint of heart!

“…powerful, vulnerable, wise, thought-provoking….” Rabbi Rain Zohav

Mike Hummel’s “Three American Artists at Midlife”. (Origin story of Washington Musica Viva).

Marilyn Banner’s art was featured in the 2025 NYC Outsider Art Fair!
Jerry Saltz thinks it’s the “best art fair in the world!”