Leonarda Records Sells 'Kaleidoscope: Music by African-American Women' Online

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

March 1, 2011 was the first day of National Women's History Month 2011. In observance of the occasion, AfriClassical posted: “'Kaleidoscope: Music by African-American Women' is resource for National Women's History Month 2011.” We have since discovered that Leonarda Records sells the CD at its website. The order form is found at http://www.leonarda.com/shopper/catalog.php

Major credit cards are accepted, and the price is $15.99 plus shipping and handling. A number of music websites still sell the recording as well, but the website order form enables a customer to deal directly with the record label which issued Leonarda 339 (1995). The complete liner notes can also be read at the Leonarda Records website.

'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