Centenarian ex-piano instructor graduated from University of Iowa, Yale March 21, 2008
Posted by John in Education, Music.Tags: University of Iowa, Iowa City (Iowa), Centenarians, Piano Teachers, Rita Hutcherson, Yale University
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From Palm Beach Post:
Throughout Rita Hutcherson’s 100 years of life, the piano has always been there.Her passion for playing developed while she was a child, growing up on a farm in Adair County, Mo. …
Hutcherson [PHOTO] was one of only three women in the Yale University School of Music, where she received a two-year certificate in music theory in 1939. …
[T]he academic world called again, and in 1955 she received her doctorate in music from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. She taught for 27 years at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, where a music studio has been endowed in her name.
Also another story about Rita Hutcherson from Boca Raton News: Teacher associations honor ex-piano instructor at age 100.
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