20 September 2021, Joseph Haydn-Hall

The mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna honors the internationally renowned women's and gender researcher Evelyn Torton Beck. The Vienna-born U.S. scientist receives the award for her outstanding scientific activities and her commitment, with which she opened up a rich spectrum of topics critical of science and society in close connection with art.

_____Programme

Entrance
Daniel Castoral (*1993): mdw Fanfare
quinTTTonic
Kerstin Gruber & Marlene Kogler (trumpet), Stephanie Weichinger (horn), Sarah Schreiner (trombone), Anna Guggenberger (Tuba)
rehearsels: Leonhard Paul

Speeches
Ulrike Sych, rector of the mdw

Johannes Marian, Chairman of the Senate

Vally Weigl (1894–1982): New England Suite
II. Main Interlude
Shino Moroto (piano), Enikö Cseh (flute), Irini Liu (Violoncello)

Gerda Müller, Vice Rectorate for Organisational Development, Gender & Diversity

Videoportrait
Florian Tanzer (Luma.Launisch 2021): Evelyn Torton Beck

Laudatory Speech
Doris Ingrisch, Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies (IKM)

klezmer reloaded: Wedding Sher
Maciej Golebiowski (clarinet), Alexander Shevchenko (bayan, button accordion)

Presentation of certificate

Acceptance Speech
Evelyn Torton Beck, Professor Emerita Department of Women’s Studies, University of Maryland

Gaudeamus igitur

End
Ethel Smyth (1858–1944):The March of the Women
Songs of Sunrise, No. 3
Choir, students of the Anton Bruckner Department of Choral and Ensemble Directing and Music Theory in Music Education
rehearsals: Johannes Hiemetsberger