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Beautiful Music NOW - Nora Douglas Holt

Pianist Lara Downes offers today's Beautiful Music. It's her delightful performance of NORA'S DANCE by Nora Douglas Holt. Kansas-born Holt was a pianist and composer, and a singer and performer in the 1940s Harlem Renaissance. She also worked as a music critic for the Chicago Defender from 1917-1921, and she co-founded the Chicago Music Association. Read more about Nora Douglas Holt.

Suzanne Bona is the host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, a nationally syndicated weekly radio show of Baroque and early music which she originated on WSHU in 1987.