8 Feb
2022

Alum chat: Katherine Baber and Casey Hayes in discussion

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Join us on Zoom as alums Katherine Baber and Casey Hayes interview each other.

We are thrilled to announce the 2022 alum chat webinar series and invite you to join us on Zoom! In the latest alum chat, Fulbright Austria alums Katherine Baber and Casey Hayes interview each other to discuss negotiating musical culture in Austria, the LGBTQI+ movement, Paul O’Montis, Leonard Bernstein, Viennese cabaret, and the Weimar era.

We are so grateful for excellent partners. This event is co-organized by the Botstiber Institute of Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS), which promotes an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria. BIAAS generously funds the Fulbright-Botstiber Visiting Professor of Austrian-American Studies awards in Austria and in the US.

Following the interviews, there will be a Q&A session with Katherine and Casey.

 

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Katherine Baber

2012–13 Fulbright-Botstiber Visiting Professor of Austrian-American Studies in Austria

Katherine Baber earned her bachelor of music and a PhD in musicology from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. She was associate professor of music history at the University of Redlands (2009–19), and she currently serves as the Alice Mozley Salzburg director and an associate dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. Her book Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz was recently published with University of Illinois Press (2019), and her work on Leonard Bernstein as an international musical and political figure can also be found in German- and English-language publications. Recent and forthcoming publications include “Listening for ‘Radical Chic’ in Bernstein’s Mass” in the collection Leonard Bernstein and Washington, DC (University of Rochester Press, 2020) and “Forgotten Modernisms: The American Symphony from 1950 to 1970” in The Symphonic Repertoire (Indiana University Press). In 2013 she was the inaugural Fulbright-Botstiber Visiting Professor of Austria-America Studies at the University of Vienna and the University for Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Austrian-American History.

Casey Hayes

2020–21 Fulbright-Botstiber Visiting Professor of Austrian-American Studies in Austria

Casey Hayes earned his bachelor and master of music in music education from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, and his PhD in music education from Steinhardt School of Education, New York University (2009). His doctoral research focused on educational outreach within lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender choruses. His studies of the LGBTQI+ choral movement led him to become the co-music director of the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus. In 2007, Casey founded the Gay Men’s Chorus of Manhattan. This ensemble raised funds for not-for-profit organizations in need. In 2021, Casey was selected as a US Fulbright scholar and was named the Fulbright-Botstiber Visiting Professor of Austrian-American Studies in Austria at the University for Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

He currently serves as professor and the A.J. Thurston Chair of Music, music department chair, and director of choral activities at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana. He also serves as the artistic director of the Quarryland Men’s Chorus, an ensemble of gay, bisexual, and transgender men and their straight allies located in Bloomington, Indiana. His current research focuses on the plight of Vienna’s LGBTQI+ and Jewish cabaret communities during the Anschluss and their recreation of Viennese cabaret in the United States. Casey’s developing partnership with Literaturhaus Wien will enable him to continue his research of Vienna’s cabaret history throughout the coming years. His book on the life of Jewish cabaret performer Willy Rosen, published by Amsterdam Press, will premiere on 27 January 2022 as part of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

About the alum chat webinar series: This webinar series is an initiative to feature notable Fulbright Austria alums who continue to make a positive impact beyond their Fulbright Austria experience. In turn, we hope our alums’ accomplishments, accounts, and expertise will inspire other members of our community as they strive to achieve their own aspirations.