The Modern Woman: Tracing a Viennese Legacy
In the first decades of the twentieth century, the city of Vienna nurtured a famously innovative musical culture whose standard-bearers crafted modernism in sound. Contrary to prevailing narratives, women were deeply active in the Viennese musical life of this era, as professional composers, performers, critics, scholars, and pedagogues. Though they encountered systemic forces of exclusion, these women’s works, commissions, critical press, and writings tell stories of innovation, visibility, and vision. Join Dr. Kerry Ginger for a lecture exploring women's contributions to the dazzling vocal music of early twentieth-century Vienna, the challenges which shaped their participation and ongoing reception, and the musical legacy they carried outward to worlds near and far.
Biography
Dr. Kerry Ginger, mezzo soprano, is active nationally as a performer, pedagogue, and scholar. Currently Assistant Professor of Voice at The University of the South, she earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Voice and Master of Music in Opera Performance at Arizona State University. Dr. Ginger’s research interests include women composers of turn-of-the-century and interwar Austria and Germany, gender in vocal music studies, and many other intersections of music, culture, and pedagogy. She has presented at two College Music Society National Conferences, numerous CMS regional conferences, the West Central Regional Conference of NATS, and the Music by Women Festival. She has published liner notes for Albany Records and produced program notes and concert lectures for performing organizations including the Phoenix Chorale. Dr. Ginger has appeared as a soloist with the Chattanooga Symphony, Music in the Mountains, The Phoenix Symphony, Arizona Opera, Phoenix Opera, Cal-Poly Bach Week, and Quintessence. An avid choral artist, she performs regularly with the Oregon Bach Festival, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, True Concord, and Kinnara. Dr. Ginger appears on Grammy Award-winning recordings by the Phoenix Chorale and True Concord for Naxos/Chandos and Reference. Now based in Chattanooga, TN, she maintains an active portfolio of oratorio and recitals.