Newlin, Dika

Newlin, Dika
▪ 2007

      American musicologist, composer, and pianist (b. Nov. 22, 1923, Portland, Ore.—d. July 22, 2006, Richmond, Va.), had a career that embraced musical scholarship, classical performance, and immersion in pop-music culture. A precocious only child, Newlin began to read by age 3, started composing by 7, finished high school at age 12, and graduated from Michigan State University at 16. She moved with her mother to southern California in order to study with composer Arnold Schoenberg. She also studied piano with Artur Schnabel and Rudolf Serkin and, at age 22, received a Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia University, New York City. A leading expert on Schoenberg, she wrote a number of scholarly works about her mentor and made translations of his writings. Newlin also published her own work, Schoenberg Remembered: Diaries and Recollections (1938–76) (1980), and wrote the article on Schoenberg for Encyclopædia Britannica. During her long (1978–2004) tenure as professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Newlin became intrigued with the punk-rock culture of her students. Characteristically, she jumped into this scene wholeheartedly, dying her hair bright orange, donning a leather outfit, and performing with the punk band Apocowlypso. Punk rock, as well as Schoenberg, informed her own compositions, which ranged from operas to pop songs. She was also a noted concert pianist.

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