Department of Music

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The University of Virginia McIntire Department of Music presents a colloquium by Tamara Levitz on Friday, April 10th at 3:30pm in 107 Old Cabell Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Tamara Levitz is a musicologist from Montréal, Canada who currently holds a position as Professor of Musicology at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. She has published widely on musical modernism in Germany, Cuba, Senegal, and France in the 1920s and 30s. Combining extensive archival research with acute critical interpretation, Tamara explores in her work the artistic intentions, complex motivations, sexual and gender identifications, and intricate social relations of musicians, composers, critics, ethnographers, performers, and audiences involved in historical events of musical performance. Much of her work has focused on renowned artists, including Ferruccio Busoni, John Cage, Igor Stravinsky, and André Gide. She recently completed the monograph Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone (Oxford, 2012), in which she presents a microhistorical analysis of the premiere by Ida Rubinstein of André Gide's and Igor Stravinsky's melodrama Perséphone on 30 April 1934.

Selected Publications:

Books
• Stravinsky and His World, ed. Tamara Levitz (Princeton: Princeton University Press,  2013).
• Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
• Teaching New Classicality: Ferruccio Busoni's Master Class in Composition. Bern: Peter Lang, 1996.

Articles
• "Igor the Angelino: The Mexican Connection," in Stravinsky and His World, ed. Tamara Levitz (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013).
• "Experimental Music and Revolution: Cuba's Grupo de Experimentación Sonora del ICAIC," in Tomorrow is the Question, ed. Ben Piekut (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,  2013)
• "Musicology beyond Borders?" position paper for a colloquy I organized with Eric Drott, Brigid Cohen, Victoria Eli Rodríguez, Ryan Dohoney, Emma Dillon, and Matthew D. Morrison for the Journal of the American Musicological Society, 2012.
• "The Aestheticization of Ethnicity: Imagining the Dogon at the Musée du quai Branly," The Music Quarterly, special issue on "Music and Identity," eds. Annegret Fauser and Tamara Levitz, vol. 89, no. 4 (Winter 2006): 600-42.
• "Syvilla Fort's Africanist Modernism and John Cage's Gestic Music: The Story of Bacchanale," South Atlantic Quarterly 104, no. 1, issue on "Music, Image, Gesture," ed. Bryan Gilliam (January 2005): 123-50.
• "Yoko Ono and the Unfinished Music of 'John&Yoko': Imagining Gender and Racial Equality in the Late 1960s," in Impossible to Hold: Women, Culture and the Sixties, eds. Lauri Umansky and Avital Bloch (New York: New York University Press, 2004),217-40.
• "The Chosen One's Choice," in Beyond Structural Listening: Postmodern Modes of Hearing, ed. Andrew Dell'Antonio (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), 70-108.

Information from: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/people/tamara-levitz/

Old Cabell Hall is located on the south end of UVA's historic lawn, directly opposite the Rotunda.  (map) Parking is available in the iiiiiiiyumj on Emmet Street, in the C1 parking lot off McCormick Rd, and in the parking lots at the UVA Corner. 

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For more information please call 434.924.3052.