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AMELIA HAYGOOD ; Founder of the Delos record label

The Independent (London, England) | April 4, 2007 | Copyright

Amelia Haygood's life was devoted to two activities, medicine and music. So, when in 1973 she founded a recording company that became one of the most important independent labels in North America, it seemed to her a logical choice to call it Delos, after the birthplace of Apollo, god of both arts.

The three and a half decades that followed saw Delos accrue a roster of musicians that would be the envy of many more imposing companies - among them singers of the standing of Arleen Auger, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ewa Podles; the cellist Janos Starker, flautists Jean-Pierre Rampal and…

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