University of Richmond Professor Receives National Music Award
July 18, 2005
University of Richmond music professor Ruth S. Longobardi has received the Philip Brett Award from the American Musicological Society.
The award, sponsored by AMS’s Gay and Lesbian Study Group, honors Longobardi’s essay "Music as Subtext: Reading Between the Lines." The essay is the final chapter in her 2004 dissertation on Benjamin Britten's “Death in Venice.”
The annual award honors exceptional musicological work exemplifying the highest qualifies of originality, interpretation, theory and communication in the field of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual studies, completed during the previous two academic years in any country and in any language.
Longobardi received her Ph.D. in historical musicology from Columbia University in 2004, and she is beginning her second year as assistant professor of music at Richmond.
Her recent articles appear in Current Musicology, twentieth-century music and The Journal of Musicology. Longobardi is currently working on a book-length study entitled “The American Documentary Opera: Representing and Re-producing the Real in Turn-of-the-Millennium America.”