Dika Newlin
Biography
Dika Newlin (November 22, 1923 – July 22, 2006) 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. She performed as an Elvis impersonator and played punk rock while in her seventies in Richmond, Virginia. She was featured in the documentary Dika: Murder City.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
22 releases · 9 albums · active 1957–2021
- Other credits · 14
- Performance · 9
Studios: Experimental Intermedia Foundation · Audio Werke · Orchestra Hall, Chicago
Frequent collaborators
- Gamelan Son Of Lion
- Gustav Mahler
- Johanna Martzy
- Arnold Schönberg
- Mark Brunswick
- Schönberg