Otie Chew Becker

Otie Chew Becker (December 2, 1880 – January 22, 1953) was an English violinist and music educator based in Los Angeles, California.

"Although a veritable little doll as to stature, she has the biggest and most sonorous tone ever drawn from wood and catgut by one of her sex," proclaimed arts manager C. H. Gibbons that year.

[4]"She is a very petite person and it is a source of wonder to all how one with a frame so small can bring such powerful harmonies to her loved instrument," noted the Los Angeles Herald.

[6] Some early appraisals decried her youthful inexperience, as when New Music Review noted that "Miss Otie Chew played Brahms' violin concerto in an almost completely incompetent manner.

"[8] The New York Times had a similar opinion of Chew's 1905 American debut, concluding that "it would be a mournful task to enumerate the defects of her playing.

Otie Chew, from a 1904 publication.