Dorothy maintained her maiden name of DeLay even following her marriage to Edward Newhouse.
Dorothy DeLay, whose students are among the most famous performers and teachers working around the world, died Sunday morning, March 24, 2002 at her home in Upper Nyack, New York, after a more-than yearlong battle with cancer. She would have been 85 years old on March 31. Miss DeLay, as she preferred to be called, began her distinguished career as a teacher at The Juilliard School in 1948. She first came to Aspen in 1970 where she nurtured many of the world's most beloved performers each summer as part of the Aspen Music School.
She has been described as the world's foremost teacher of the violin by publications as disparate as The New York Times, France's Le Monde de la Musique, and South Africa's Die Volksblad. More than just a teacher of the violin, she frequently also was mentor, confidant, career advisor, concert fashion consultant, and even surrogate mother.
Among her students are many celebrated performers, including Itzhak Perlman, Cho-Liang Lin, Anne Akiko Meyers, Nadia SalernoSonnenberg, Shlomo Mintz, Nigel Kennedy, Robert McDuffie, Sarah Chang, Mark Kaplan, Rachel Lee, Midori, Gil Shaham, and Kyoko Takezawa. Violinists of the Juilliard, Tokyo, Cleveland, American, Takács, Mendelssohn, Blair, Fine Arts, and Vermeer String Quartets studied with her.
She taught concertmasters of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Chicago Symphony, and many other major orchestras the world over. Numerous other former students teach at outstanding conservatories in the United States and abroad, including the Aspen Music Festival and School. First prizes were awarded to her students in every major international competition, including the Tchaikowsky, the Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, Montreal, Paganini, Thibaud, Menuhin, Wienawski, Naumburg, Indianapolis, Queen Sofia of Spain, Chile International, Leventritt, Sarasate, Hanover, and Nielsen competitions, among many others.
Born in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, on March 31, 1917.
She attended high school in Neodesha, Kansas, where her father was the Principal. When she was attending Neodesha High School, DeLay was found to have an IQ of 180 and was among a group of a hundred students nationwide selected for a survey by the Stanford-Binet research team that was gathering information to check the accuracy of IQ ratings. (Ruth A. Hanke)
Dorothy DeLay attended Oberlin College, Michigan State University, and what was then called The Juilliard Graduate School before beginning a concert career. That career was interrupted by World War II when her husband, writer Edward Newhouse (a regular contributor to the New Yorker for 30 years) was transferred to a series of Air Force bases. After the war, they settled in Rockland County, New York, where they still lived.
In addition to her husband, Dorothy DeLay is survived by two children, daughter Alison Dinsmore from Boston, and a son Jeffrey Newhouse from Bronxville, NY; and four grandchildren, Molly and Susannah Dinsmore and Amy Lee and Edward Newhouse.
Her life was chronicled by Barbara Lourie Sand in a book entitled: Teaching Genius: Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician.
Information from Julliard School, ICC Music Instructor Ruth A. Hanke, fanfaire.com, her sister Louise DeLay Carlson, The Neodesha Daily Sun, and others.
Dorothy DeLay, whose students are among the most famous performers and teachers working around the world, died Sunday morning, March 24, 2002 at her home in Upper Nyack, New York, after a more-than yearlong battle with cancer. She would have been 85 years old on March 31. Miss DeLay, as she preferred to be called, began her distinguished career as a teacher at The Juilliard School in 1948. She first came to Aspen in 1970 where she nurtured many of the world's most beloved performers each summer as part of the Aspen Music School.
She has been described as the world's foremost teacher of the violin by publications as disparate as The New York Times, France's Le Monde de la Musique, and South Africa's Die Volksblad. More than just a teacher of the violin, she frequently also was mentor, confidant, career advisor, concert fashion consultant, and even surrogate mother.
Among her students are many celebrated performers, including Itzhak Perlman, Cho-Liang Lin, Anne Akiko Meyers, Nadia SalernoSonnenberg, Shlomo Mintz, Nigel Kennedy, Robert McDuffie, Sarah Chang, Mark Kaplan, Rachel Lee, Midori, Gil Shaham, and Kyoko Takezawa. Violinists of the Juilliard, Tokyo, Cleveland, American, Takács, Mendelssohn, Blair, Fine Arts, and Vermeer String Quartets studied with her.
She taught concertmasters of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Chicago Symphony, and many other major orchestras the world over. Numerous other former students teach at outstanding conservatories in the United States and abroad, including the Aspen Music Festival and School. First prizes were awarded to her students in every major international competition, including the Tchaikowsky, the Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, Montreal, Paganini, Thibaud, Menuhin, Wienawski, Naumburg, Indianapolis, Queen Sofia of Spain, Chile International, Leventritt, Sarasate, Hanover, and Nielsen competitions, among many others.
Born in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, on March 31, 1917.
She attended high school in Neodesha, Kansas, where her father was the Principal. When she was attending Neodesha High School, DeLay was found to have an IQ of 180 and was among a group of a hundred students nationwide selected for a survey by the Stanford-Binet research team that was gathering information to check the accuracy of IQ ratings. (Ruth A. Hanke)
Dorothy DeLay attended Oberlin College, Michigan State University, and what was then called The Juilliard Graduate School before beginning a concert career. That career was interrupted by World War II when her husband, writer Edward Newhouse (a regular contributor to the New Yorker for 30 years) was transferred to a series of Air Force bases. After the war, they settled in Rockland County, New York, where they still lived.
In addition to her husband, Dorothy DeLay is survived by two children, daughter Alison Dinsmore from Boston, and a son Jeffrey Newhouse from Bronxville, NY; and four grandchildren, Molly and Susannah Dinsmore and Amy Lee and Edward Newhouse.
Her life was chronicled by Barbara Lourie Sand in a book entitled: Teaching Genius: Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician.
Information from Julliard School, ICC Music Instructor Ruth A. Hanke, fanfaire.com, her sister Louise DeLay Carlson, The Neodesha Daily Sun, and others.
Dorothy maintained her maiden name of DeLay even following her marriage to Edward Newhouse.
Dorothy DeLay, whose students are among the most famous performers and teachers working around the world, died Sunday morning, March 24, 2002 at her home in Upper Nyack, New York, after a more-than yearlong battle with cancer. She would have been 85 years old on March 31. Miss DeLay, as she preferred to be called, began her distinguished career as a teacher at The Juilliard School in 1948. She first came to Aspen in 1970 where she nurtured many of the world's most beloved performers each summer as part of the Aspen Music School.
She has been described as the world's foremost teacher of the violin by publications as disparate as The New York Times, France's Le Monde de la Musique, and South Africa's Die Volksblad. More than just a teacher of the violin, she frequently also was mentor, confidant, career advisor, concert fashion consultant, and even surrogate mother.
Among her students are many celebrated performers, including Itzhak Perlman, Cho-Liang Lin, Anne Akiko Meyers, Nadia SalernoSonnenberg, Shlomo Mintz, Nigel Kennedy, Robert McDuffie, Sarah Chang, Mark Kaplan, Rachel Lee, Midori, Gil Shaham, and Kyoko Takezawa. Violinists of the Juilliard, Tokyo, Cleveland, American, Takács, Mendelssohn, Blair, Fine Arts, and Vermeer String Quartets studied with her.
She taught concertmasters of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Chicago Symphony, and many other major orchestras the world over. Numerous other former students teach at outstanding conservatories in the United States and abroad, including the Aspen Music Festival and School. First prizes were awarded to her students in every major international competition, including the Tchaikowsky, the Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, Montreal, Paganini, Thibaud, Menuhin, Wienawski, Naumburg, Indianapolis, Queen Sofia of Spain, Chile International, Leventritt, Sarasate, Hanover, and Nielsen competitions, among many others.
Born in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, on March 31, 1917.
She attended high school in Neodesha, Kansas, where her father was the Principal. When she was attending Neodesha High School, DeLay was found to have an IQ of 180 and was among a group of a hundred students nationwide selected for a survey by the Stanford-Binet research team that was gathering information to check the accuracy of IQ ratings. (Ruth A. Hanke)
Dorothy DeLay attended Oberlin College, Michigan State University, and what was then called The Juilliard Graduate School before beginning a concert career. That career was interrupted by World War II when her husband, writer Edward Newhouse (a regular contributor to the New Yorker for 30 years) was transferred to a series of Air Force bases. After the war, they settled in Rockland County, New York, where they still lived.
In addition to her husband, Dorothy DeLay is survived by two children, daughter Alison Dinsmore from Boston, and a son Jeffrey Newhouse from Bronxville, NY; and four grandchildren, Molly and Susannah Dinsmore and Amy Lee and Edward Newhouse.
Her life was chronicled by Barbara Lourie Sand in a book entitled: Teaching Genius: Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician.
Information from Julliard School, ICC Music Instructor Ruth A. Hanke, fanfaire.com, her sister Louise DeLay Carlson, The Neodesha Daily Sun, and others.
Dorothy DeLay, whose students are among the most famous performers and teachers working around the world, died Sunday morning, March 24, 2002 at her home in Upper Nyack, New York, after a more-than yearlong battle with cancer. She would have been 85 years old on March 31. Miss DeLay, as she preferred to be called, began her distinguished career as a teacher at The Juilliard School in 1948. She first came to Aspen in 1970 where she nurtured many of the world's most beloved performers each summer as part of the Aspen Music School.
She has been described as the world's foremost teacher of the violin by publications as disparate as The New York Times, France's Le Monde de la Musique, and South Africa's Die Volksblad. More than just a teacher of the violin, she frequently also was mentor, confidant, career advisor, concert fashion consultant, and even surrogate mother.
Among her students are many celebrated performers, including Itzhak Perlman, Cho-Liang Lin, Anne Akiko Meyers, Nadia SalernoSonnenberg, Shlomo Mintz, Nigel Kennedy, Robert McDuffie, Sarah Chang, Mark Kaplan, Rachel Lee, Midori, Gil Shaham, and Kyoko Takezawa. Violinists of the Juilliard, Tokyo, Cleveland, American, Takács, Mendelssohn, Blair, Fine Arts, and Vermeer String Quartets studied with her.
She taught concertmasters of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Chicago Symphony, and many other major orchestras the world over. Numerous other former students teach at outstanding conservatories in the United States and abroad, including the Aspen Music Festival and School. First prizes were awarded to her students in every major international competition, including the Tchaikowsky, the Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, Montreal, Paganini, Thibaud, Menuhin, Wienawski, Naumburg, Indianapolis, Queen Sofia of Spain, Chile International, Leventritt, Sarasate, Hanover, and Nielsen competitions, among many others.
Born in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, on March 31, 1917.
She attended high school in Neodesha, Kansas, where her father was the Principal. When she was attending Neodesha High School, DeLay was found to have an IQ of 180 and was among a group of a hundred students nationwide selected for a survey by the Stanford-Binet research team that was gathering information to check the accuracy of IQ ratings. (Ruth A. Hanke)
Dorothy DeLay attended Oberlin College, Michigan State University, and what was then called The Juilliard Graduate School before beginning a concert career. That career was interrupted by World War II when her husband, writer Edward Newhouse (a regular contributor to the New Yorker for 30 years) was transferred to a series of Air Force bases. After the war, they settled in Rockland County, New York, where they still lived.
In addition to her husband, Dorothy DeLay is survived by two children, daughter Alison Dinsmore from Boston, and a son Jeffrey Newhouse from Bronxville, NY; and four grandchildren, Molly and Susannah Dinsmore and Amy Lee and Edward Newhouse.
Her life was chronicled by Barbara Lourie Sand in a book entitled: Teaching Genius: Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician.
Information from Julliard School, ICC Music Instructor Ruth A. Hanke, fanfaire.com, her sister Louise DeLay Carlson, The Neodesha Daily Sun, and others.
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