WASHINGTON MUSICA VIVA (WMV) performs classical, contemporary, and jazz-based chamber music.
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“Deep River”, woodcut by Ashley Bryan
Saturday November 15, 2025 at 5:00 pm:
BannerArts House Concert & Potluck Dinner
Carl Banner, piano
Anne Becker, poet
“The Water is Wide, Daisy Bell” - Andrew Stiller (1987)
Sonata #7 (1944)* - Viktor Ullmann
*(composed in Terezin, August 1944)
Poetry of Anne Becker: The Crack in the Earth
These poems come from a new manuscript, The Crack in the Earth, that covers a human lifetime. This selection looks at our humanity through the lenses of family, mythology, history, science and politics.
Three Spirituals, from Op. 59 -
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1905)
”Many Thousand Gone”
”Deep River”
”Motherless Child”
BannerArts is at 7502 Flower Ave, Takoma Park MD. Admission is $20, advance only, plus food or drink to share. Hosts will provide one main dish and wine. Limited to 25 guests.
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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; pdf).
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