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Will Taylor’s The Living Score | Beethoven
Featuring a live performance of the String Trio #3 in C minor, improvised music, spoken word with Beethoven’s letters, poetry inspired by his music and audience Q & A.
Imagine a casual concert experience that takes you deep into the life and soul of the music and its creators.
Something presented in an unconventional venue where guests can enjoy a glass of wine, acoustic music and a few passionate spoken word recitations of poetry, letters, and short stories.
Think of NPR’s “The Moth” or “Selected Shorts”, but with live music and audience participation through Q & A and shares.
Performers:
Strings Attached Trio
Christabel Lin - Violin
Tony Rogers - Cello
Will Taylor - Viola
Spoken Word with Megan Weaver
Megan Weaver is a writer & director specializing in form-fracturing ensemble stories about death, love and growing up. She’s directed and performed original theatrical works on historic tall ships, a massive public art sculpture, in an icehouse, fountains, community gardens, elevators, apartments and over Zoom – in addition to directing in “traditional” theaters (although never “traditional” plays). Current projects include a surrealist music video with Claire Hamilton’s Psychic Seatbelt, a magic-realist screenplay based on Megan’s award-winning play Cause of Failure, and an all-women rock opera about former Texas governor Ann Richards. By day Megan ghostwrites content for corporate clients about collaboration, inclusion, leadership and authenticity. www.meganweaver.com.
Will Taylor
I've been a professional violinist and Austin music icon for over 20 years, jamming with folks such as Willie Nelson, Pearl Jam, Gary Clark Jr., Shawn Colvin, Shiny Ribs, Guy Forsyth, the Turtle Island String Quartet at Town Hall in New York City and so many more. I'm a lover of the outdoors and the magic of bringing people into nature for life-changing moments of connection and musical bliss. I have been a concert presenter for over 20 years and in 2006 produced a concert of the Beatles White Album that was broadcast on radio and drew over 1600 folks for two shows. You can learn more about me at StringsAttached.org, StringsintheWoods.com and about my love of community outreach through StringsAttachedCares.org
Christabel Lin
Violinist Christabel Lin was born in New Zealand and made her first major solo appearance with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (New Zealand) at the age of 10 for an audience of 250,000. Since then, she has appeared as a soloist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra (NZ), Taichung Symphony Orchestra (Taiwan), the Austin Civic Orchestra (Austin, TX) and the Vienna Conservatory Chamber Orchestra in venues such as the Sydney Opera House and the Wiener Musikverein, home of the Vienna Philharmonic.
In 2012 she was a full time violin player in the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra in Vienna, Austria before moving to Austin, Texas in 2013 to further her education at the University of Texas at Austin in the Artist's Diploma program with Professor Brian Lewis.
She holds a Master's degree from the Vienna Conservatory.
Christabel has been the winner of numerous chamber music competitions and has been involved in extensive chamber music performances and tours, which have taken her throughout New Zealand, to Asia and the UK (including St. Martins in the Fields in London and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival). She has collaborated with artists from around the world, including Anton Sorokow (Concertmaster, Vienna Symphony), Anton Nel (solo pianist and chamber musician), and David Kim (Concertmaster, Philadelphia Orchestra).
Tony Rogers
Tony Rogers is a cellist, educator, performer, arranger and composer.
He performs regularly with The Austin Piazzolla Quintet, The Waterloo Trio, Jenifer Jackson, the multi-genre group Strings Attached, performs weddings on weekends, and onstage with symphonies, playing 70 public performances per year, teaches a few hundred lessons and directs the Austin Cello Choir every week on Tuesday evenings for cellists of all levels. In his spare time he organizes chamber reading sessions.