Dika Newlin, American composer, singer-songwriter, and pianist (born 1923)

Dika Newlin

American composer and musicologist (1923–2006)

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…