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Dika Newlin

American musician (1923-2006) · United States · On the map · Musicians · Died at 82

Dika Newlin was a composer, pianist, professor, musicologist, and punk rock singer. She received a Ph.D. from Columbia University at the age of 22. She was one of the last living students of Arnold Schoenberg and was a Schoenberg scholar and a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond from 1978 to 2004.

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She performed as an Elvis impersonator and played punk rock while in her seventies in Richmond, Virginia.

Country
United States
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1923 to 2006 · aged 82

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