Haygood, Amelia

Amelia Haygood ( born Amelia Haygood , nee Amelia Da Costa Stone ; July 15, 1919 , Gainesville , Florida - March 19, 2007 , Santa Monica , California ) is an American record producer, founder of the independent record label Delos Records .

A historian and legal scholar, she studied at the Sorbonne . She worked as an editor in the Committee on Cultural and Scientific Cooperation of the US Department of State . Having married a psychologist Douglas Heygud ( 1943 ), received an additional diploma in psychology, worked in the field of psychological rehabilitation of World War II veterans.

In 1973 , she founded Delos Records to support American performers of academic music who were not sufficiently demanded by the recording industry (in particular, conductor James De Priest and harpsichord player Malcolm Hamilton ^[1] ). Over time, an important place in the production of Delos began to take albums of classical music, specially selected for children and youth audiences and pursuing the goals of popularization and enlightenment. Delos's face was largely determined by his vice president, pianist Carol Rosenberger , who became a close friend of Heygood after Heygood's medical and psychological assistance helped Rosenberger cope with the effects of polio and return to concert activity.