john banther

@johnbanther.bsky.social

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musician, non-award winning host and producer of Classical Breakdown and Front Row Washington on WETA Classical 🎶🎧🧑🏻‍💼🐶🐶🏳️‍⚧️ they/them - all opinions are my own

wood stove with a fire roaring behind a glass window

the back of my dog maggie sitting on the couch listening to music with me

a black and white image of composer Ethel Smyth, in a newsboy type hat and overcoat, posing against a wall.

a watercolor painting by Felix Mendelssohn that on the top shows a view of the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. Beneath it is a musical quotation from Luigi Cherubini’s opera Ali Baba (intro to Act 1).

my mare, pippa, standing in the aisle