<h1 class="bottomSpace">Musicologist's book is selected best in music, performing arts category</h1>
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<div align="left"><strong><br>Tamara Levitz’s</strong> "Modernist
Mysteries: Perséphone," published in September by Oxford University
Press, was selected earlier this month as the best book in music and
performing arts in 2012 by the American Publishers Awards for
Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE).</div>
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<div align="left"><a href="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/star-crossed-unearthing-the-story-243522.aspx" target="_blank">The book</a>
relays the history of Igor Stravinsky’s 1934 star-crossed ballet
"Perséphone," which played just three nights at the Paris Opéra before
closing to negative reviews.</div>
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<div>Given across more than 40 categories, the PROSE awards recognize
"the very best in professional and scholarly publishing," according
to its website. This year’s competition attracted 518 entries of books,
reference works, journals and electronic products. Entries were judged
by publishers, librarians and scholars.</div>
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<div align="left">"Her work has been singled out as the best of a very
large group of books nominated by publishers at all levels, from many
studies on a wide variety of music and performance topics by authors
from a number of different disciplines," said Robert Fink, the chair of
the Musicology Department. "It is a signal honor."
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<div align="left">As one of the world’s preeminent Stravinsky
authorities, Levitz spent a decade unearthing the history of the ballet
that brought together a virtual dream team of collaborators: writer
André Gide, Stravinsky, dancer Ida Rubinstein, director Jacques Copeau
and German expressionist choreographer Kurt Jooss. By the end of the
production, the collaborators were at odds with one another, largely the
result of a tug of war between the first glimmerings of a gay rights
movement and the rise of a religious right.
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<div align="left">Due to her reputation in Stravinsky circles, Levitz
has been invited to serve as the scholar in residence for "Stravinsky
and His World," a two-week festival in August at Bard College in New
York’s Hudson River Valley. The festival will include a revival of
"Perséphone."</div>
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<br clear="all"><div><div>carlos palombini<br></div><a href="http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-7345-2011" target="_blank">ufmg.academia.edu/CarlosPalombini</a><br><br><div></div><div></div><div></div></div>
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