Newlin, Dika (1923—)
Newlin, Dika (1923—)
American composer, pianist, critic, musicologist, and professor. Born in Portland, Oregon, on November 22, 1923; Michigan State University, B.A., 1939, University of California at Los Angeles, M.A., 1951; awarded the first Ph.D. in musicology granted by Columbia University, in 1945.
Dika Newlin studied with some of the foremost musicians of the 20th century, including Arnold Schoenberg, Artur Schnabel, Rudolf Serkin, and Roger Sessions. She received her B.A. from Michigan State University in 1939, her M.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1951, and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1945, for which she wrote Bruckner, Mahler, Schoenberg. She was a Fulbright fellow in Vienna (1951–52) and established the music department at Drew University, teaching there from 1952 to 1965. In 1957, Newlin was awarded the Mahler medal by the Bruckner Society. In 1965, she became professor of musicology at North Texas State University in Denton where she remained until 1973, when she was appointed director of Montclair State College's electronic music library. In 1978, Newlin developed a new doctoral program in music for Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition to numerous compositions in the 12-tone idiom, Newlin has written about Arnold Schoenberg and has translated his works.
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