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| | classical music - andante - dorle soria, music writer and founder of angel records, is dead at 101 |
 | | In 1953, Soria and her husband, Dario, founded the record company as the American distribution outlet for some of the labels of Britain's EMI, the Times says. |
 | | The couple operated Angel for four years before they sold it, creating a catalog of about 500 releases by such artists as the singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Tito Gobbi, Boris Christoff and the young Maria Callas; the pianists Walter Gieseking and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli; and the conductors Carlo Maria Giulini and Herbert von Karajan. |
 | | Soria, a graduate of Columbia University in New York, was a journalist until the powerful Arthur Judson, who managed artists and ran the New York Philharmonic, put her in charge of publicity for all his ventures, according to the Times. |
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