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Dika Newlin
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.[1]
She was featured in the documentary Dika: Murder City.
- ^ Sinclair, Melissa Scott. "Dika Newlin's Legacy in Wild Sights and Sounds". Style Weekly. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
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