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DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Richard W.\nMusicians: Carl Banner\n\nSunday 2pm 12 O
 ctober 2025 Carl Banner virtuoso pianist\, Musica Viva DC\; POTLUCK dinner
  buffet. 93/44\n\nProgram\, 2 30-40 minute sets with intermission\; 2-3pm 
 buffet open:\n\n-Brahms Variations in D\, Op. 21#1\n-Chopin Ballade #3 in 
 Ab\, Op. 47\n... Intermission...\n-Alban Berg Sonata in Bm\, Op. 1 (1909)\
 n-Stravinsky Sonata (1923)\n\nNEW: see program notes** below ... \n2:35-3p
 m artist discussion with Q&A\n\nPotLuck Dinner Buffet 2-3PM & during inter
 mission& following performance. Host will provide two hot hors d'oeuvres &
  punch for potluck reception during intermission & beginning\, when doors 
 open 2pm. Guests are encouraged to bring food/wine to share/potluck\; if c
 onsidering a sweet\, think about fruit instead of processed sugar. Music b
 egins at 3pm\, please be on time\, 2 sets with 1 short intermission\, rare
 ly one longer set. Guests most welcome and encouraged to bring dish/drink 
 to share/potluck\, please consider bringing wine if you use it. Stemware/I
 ce Buckets/Filtered Water Provided.\n\nAdvance payment REQUESTED (pay thru
  GroupMuse or the PayPal Link) NO CASH at EVENT--illegal in MD.  All guest
 s will be seated in Music Room. Accessibility note: 3 steps walkway to ent
 ry hall\, 30 inch doors inside.\n\nArrivals 2-2:30pm ...\n-potluck dishes 
 dining room\n-wine\, beverages: bar in galley\n-important: coats and bags 
 upstairs please\n-arrivals: 2pm for social hour and POTLUCK DINNER buffet\
 n- Artist discussion/Q&A 2:30-3pm PROGRAM NOTES** BELOW\n-concert seating 
 opens: 3pm\, music begins\; 2:30pm for those attending artist discussion\n
 -OK To take food/ wine into Music Studio\n-outdoor cats live here\n-2 upst
 airs galleries open\, 2 upstairs lavatories\, open in addiction to main la
 vatory rear of studio\n\nYour safety is paramount: covid vaccinated/booste
 r guests preferred\, or PCR tested (honor system). Please consider the new
 ly released Flu and current covid vaccine.\n\n** PROGRAM NOTES ... artist 
 discussion w/Q&A 2:30-3pm in music studio:\n\nJohannes Brahms - Variations
  in D\, Op. 21#1\nBrahms wrote these Variations on an Original Theme in D 
 major\, Op. 21 No. 1 in 1861\, when he was 28 years old. The Theme is in t
 wo parts\, 9 bars each\, divided into 4 and 5 bar sections. The 5 bar sect
 ion gives a kind of extended or stretched out feeling to the theme. Each V
 ariation follows this pattern\, except for a 12th variation\, which is lik
 e a climactic coda. Brahms makes use of archaic contrapuntal devices\, lik
 e “canon in moto contrario” and lengthy pedal tones\, as well as consi
 derable use of duple vs. triplet figures and hemiola (a six beat figure th
 at can be read as 3\,3 or 2\,2\,2 or both together). Nevertheless\, this i
 s a highly emotional and intimate work.\n\nAlban Berg - Sonata in B minor\
 , Op. 1 (1909)\nAlban Berg was a 24 year old student of Arnold Schoenberg 
 when he composed this one movement work in 1909. From Wikipedia: “Althou
 gh the piece has the nominal key of B minor\, Berg makes frequent use of c
 hromaticism\, whole-tone scales\, and wandering key centers\, giving the t
 onality a very unstable feel\, which only resolves in the final few bars.
 ” The feeling of the music may be considered in the context of German Ex
 pressionism\, represented in painting by Emil Nolde\, Egon Schiele\, and O
 skar Kokoschka.\n\n[Intermission]\n\nFrédéric Chopin - Ballade #3 in Ab\
 , Op. 47\nChopin’s third Ballade\, in Ab\, Op. 47\, was composed in 1841
 \, when the composer was 31. It is a sunny and smiling affair\, with an ob
 vious nod to horse and buggy rhythm.\n\nIgor Stravinsky Piano Sonata (1924
 )\nIgor Stravinsky’s Piano Sonata\, from 1924\, a work in three movement
 s\, is written in a “neoclassical” style. That is\, structurally and t
 o a degree harmonically\, it follows the traditions of the classical perio
 d piano sonata. However\, in spirit\, it is more related to contemporary c
 ultural movements like Picasso’s “cubism”\, or even Dada.\n\n      2
 025-2026 SOLOX schedule:\n\nVictorian Steinway B78949 Music Room Concert G
 rand (restored to factory new in 2017)\n\nhttps://www.groupmuse.com/hosts/
 192379\n\nSOLOX an Art Salon of Washington DC\nWoodAcres off Massachusetts
  Av near Glen Echo Park\n
LOCATION:Woodacres\, Bethesda
SUMMARY:Sunday 2pm 12 October 2025 Carl Banner virtuoso pianist\, Musica Vi
 va DC\; POTLUCK dinner buffet. 93/44
URL:https://www.groupmuse.com/events/15588-sunday-2pm-12-october-2025-carl-
 banner-virtuoso-pianist-musica-viva-dc-potluck-dinner-buffet-93-44
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