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DOROTHY DELAY

Dorothy DeLay was born on March 31, 1917, in
Medicine Lodge, Kansas to parents who were
musicians and teachers. She began studying
violin at age 4. At age 14, she graduated from
neodesha High School, where her father was
superintendent

. DeLay studied for one year at the Oberlin Conservatory with Raymond
Cerf, a student of cesar thomson and transferred to broaden her
education at,Michigan State University where she earned a B.A. in 1937
at age 20. She then entered the Juilliard Graduate School, where she
studied with Louis Persinger Hans Letz, and felixsalmond.

She was the founder of the Stuyvesant Trio (1939–42) with her cellist
sister Nellis DeLay and pianist Helen Brainard, and she played with
Leopoldstokowski's All-American Youth Orchestra.

She began studying the violin at age 4 and did a
recital at her church at age 5. She was so
advanced that she graduated from Neodesha
High School at age 16 and enrolled at the Oberlin
Conservatory in Ohio. Miss DeLay later
transferred to Michigan State. Dorothy DeLay
was an outstanding violinist.

She always seem to like the violin and
wanted to do that, although I did play
piano a lot. Speaker And when did you at
what point in your life did you think, well,
I'll do this will become a serious thing for
me?

In addition to many honorary degrees, Miss DeLay
received the National Medal of Arts in 1994, the
National Music Council's American Eagle Award in
1995, the Sanford Medal from Yale University in
1997 and the Order of the Sacred Treasure from
the Japanese Government in 199

Both of her parents were musicians and
teachers. DeLay began her violin studies at the
age of four. By the time she was sixteen she had
enrolled in Oberlin Conservatory and when she
was 20, she moved to New York to enrol at the
Juilliard School where she continued her studies.

She began studying the violin at age 4 and did a
recital at her church at age 5. She was so
advanced that she graduated from Neodesha High
School at age 16 and enrolled at the Oberlin
Conservatory in Ohio. Miss DeLay later transferred
to Michigan State. Dorothy DeLay was an
outstanding violinist.

As do many students, Miss DeLay pieced together
a handful of invitations for part-time teaching and
assistantship positions to support herself during
school. She taught part-time at the Henry Street
Settlement, the Juilliard School and Sarah
Lawrence College.

Miss DeLay, as her students continued to call her even after
they became star performers, began her teaching career
almost as an afterthought in 1947, when she was a student
of Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School. Accepting a
handful of invitations for part-time teaching and
assistantships at the Henry Street Settlement, the Juilliard
School and Sarah Lawrence College led her to realize that
she enjoyed teaching more than she enjoyed performing.

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