Dorle Jarmel Soria, a co-founder of Angel Records and longtime classical
music writer and publicist, died on 7 July, The New York Times reports.
She was 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.
After selling Angel, the Sorias helped the composer Gian Carlo Menotti establishing his Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, in 1958. In the 1960's, Mrs. Soria wrote a weekly column for the Carnegie Hall program book and she became a regular contributor to the magazines High Fidelity, Musical America and Opera News. She also wrote a book about the history of the Metropolitan Opera.
— Michael Markowitz
"Dorle Jarmel Soria, 101, Writer and a Founder
of Angel Records, Dies"
Anne Midgette - The New York Times
- 15 July 2002
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