NEWLIN, Dika

NEWLIN, Dika American pianist, critic, musicologist, professor and composer. Portland, November 22, 1923. She gained her B.A. in 1939 from the Michigan State University, East Lansing. From 1938 to 1941 she studied composition privately under Roger Sessions and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1951 she received an M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She continued her piano studies under Ignace Hilsberg, R. Serkin and A. Schnabel and in 1945 was awarded the first Ph.D. in musicology to be…