'Kaleidoscope: Music by African-American Women' is resource for National Women's History Month 2011

[Kaleidoscope: Music by African-American Women; Helen Walker-Hill, piano and Gregory Walker, violin; Leonarda Records LE 339 (1995)]

March is National Women's History Month 2011. Resources may be found at http://www.nwhp.org/ Kaleidoscope: Music by African-American Women is a 1995 CD which remains in print and which provides examples of works by 14 women of African descent. Brief sound samples of all of the tracks can be heard at the website of Leonarda Records. Three of the composers are featured at AfriClassical.com:

Margaret Allison Bonds (1913-1972) Troubled Water (4:52)

Irene Britton Smith (1907-1999) Sonata for violin and piano (15:07)

Florence B. Price (1887-1953) Fantasie Nègre (8:56)

Many of the remaining 11 composers have been featured on Africlassical; Regina Harris Baiocchi has been interviewed, and has also been featured numerous times:

Dorothy Rudd Moore (b. 1940)

Julia Perry (1924-1979)

Betty Jackson King (1928-1994)

Lettie Beckon Alston (b. 1953)

Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989)

Rachel Eubanks

Valerie Capers (b. 1935)

Lena Johnson McLin (b. 1929)

Regina Harris Baiocchi (b. 1956)

Dolores White

Nora Douglas Holt (1885-1974)

Comment by email:

Dear Bill: Thanks for remaining a beacon, champion, and resource for music by composers of African descent. Blessings on you and yours... Regina Harris Baiocchi