Tamara Levitz, professor of musicology in the UCLA Department of Musicology, received the Otto Kinkeldey award recently at the national meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS) in Pittsburgh. The Otto Kinkeldey award is society's highest honor.
The prize, which has been given since 1967 to scholars past the early stages of their career, honored Levitz for her book "Modernist Mysteries: Persephone" (Oxford University Press). "Modernist Mysteries: Persephone" focuses on the collaboration that occurred to present the melodrama "Perséphone" at the Paris Opera, and the deeper implications of this work on neoclassical music and modernism.
Levitz edited a volume of the same name that was published by Princeton University Press last August. Her work focuses on the intentions, motivations and sexual and gender identifications at play when musicians, composers, critics, ethnographers, performers, and audiences create and experience a piece of music.
