After having been a professional musician for fifty years, Betty Hauck had to retire because of progressive hearing loss. She will tell the story of how, after turning her back on playing six years ago, various twists and turns led her back to the joy of communicating with people through music. Her talk will be interspersed with short selections on both violin and viola, with Carl Banner, piano.

For twenty-five years, Betty Hauck lived and performed with the Apple Hill Chamber Players, of which she was a founding member. With them, she toured the Middle East annually, performing, teaching and awarding scholarships to Jewish and Arab music students. The PBS documentary "Playing for Peace" followed one of these tours. Among her many adventures, Betty played in a quartet with Yo-Yo Ma, coached the Jordanian Army Orchestra, and performed at the White House for the Kennedys, as well as at a convocation of the Dalai Lama and for the children of the employees of Mustang Ranch (the largest brothel in Nevada).