Complex sentence: In 1941 Bower won a scholarship to the famed Chautauqua Institute and two years later, at the age of seventeen, moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to study voice privately under Clarence Reinhart, one of her principal teachers over the next sixteen years.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1941 Bower won a scholarship to the famed Chautauqua Institute. In 1943 she moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to study voice privately under Clarence Reinhart, one of her principal teachers over the next sixteen years.