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Groundbreaking career in performance, composition, and teaching included many firsts among black musicians.

Memorial service to include performances by alumni plus tributes from loved ones.

Accomplished performer returned to teach at her alma mater, became the first tenured black female professor.

Master of modern and historical flute devoted 37 years to teaching at Oberlin, leaving a long list of distinguished former students.

Wide-ranging influences included spirituals, jazz, serialism, and more.

Longtime member of The Cleveland Orchestra also played jazz, craved adventure.

Ralph Harold Turner, 100, of Oberlin, passed away April 16, 2017, at Kendal at Oberlin Health Center after a long illness.

Exalted in his hometown of Detroit, he launched careers as an Oberlin faculty member from 2001-10.