Newlin, Dika
Newlin, Dika
Newlin, Dika, American writer on music and composer; b. Portland, Ore., Nov. 22, 1923. She studied piano and theory at Mich. State Univ. (B.A., 1939) and at the Univ. of Calif, at Los Angeles (M.A., 1941), and later took courses at Columbia Univ. in N.Y. (Ph.D., 1945, with the diss. Bruckner- Mahler-Schoenberg; publ. in N.Y., 1947; 2nd ed., rev., 1978); concurrently received instruction in composition from Farwell, Schoenberg, and Sessions, and in piano from Serkin and A. Schnabel. She taught at Western Maryland Coll. (1945^9), Syracuse Univ. (1949–51), Drew Univ. (1952–65), North Tex. State Univ. (1965–73), and Va. Commonwealth Univ. (from 1978). She ed. and tr. several books by and about Schoenberg, and also publ. Schoenberg Remembered: Diaries and Recollections, 1938–1976 (N.Y, 1980). Her compositions follow the Schoenbergian idiom and include 3 operas, a Sym. for Chorus and Orch., a Piano Concerto, chamber music, piano pieces, and songs.
Bibliography
T. Albrecht, ed., D. Caecilia: Essays for D. N., November 22, 1988 (Kansas City, Mo., 1988).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire