[4] She was a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1920, when one reviewer admired her as having "the strongest sort of rhythmic sense", adding that "her search for beautiful quality and fineness of interpretation is constant, and she never allows for one moment either harshness or uncertainty to creep into her playing.

She was a member of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, the National League of American Pen Women, the Chicago Woman's Musical Club, and the San Francisco Musical Club.

[4][6] Her performing schedule was busy enough to involve flying between cities in 1922, still a novelty at the time.

Her first husband was Benjamin Hudson Ryder, an electrical engineer from Pittsburgh; they married in 1906 and he died in 1925.

Theodora Sturkow-Ryder Snite died in 1958, aged 82 years, in Oakland, California.