Natalia Raigorodsky

Marie Leda Natalia Raigorodsky Heimsath Harter Parris (28 July 1929 - 28 August 2018) was an American composer, educator, and music critic who produced over 150 works, including two operas and two symponies. She published under the name Natalia Raigorodsky.

Biography Raigorodsky was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Ethel McCaleb and Paul M. Raigorodsky. She grew up in Texas, then moved to Maine in the early 1940s. She graduated from Barnard College in 1952 and earned a master’s degree in composition and music history in 1963 from American University. She taught music theory and piano privately throughout her life.

Raigorodsky married Charles Herman Heimsath and had two sons. In 1987, she married James L. Parris.

Some of Raigorodsky’s compositions were self-published. Others were published by Culley Music and Wings of the Morning Music. Many of her works are archived at the Library of Congress. Her compositions include:

Chamber

Dusk (flute and piano)

Opera

The Promise of Peace

The White Cliffs (text by Alice Duer Miller)

Symphony No. 2

Open Windows: Five Musical Settings of Poems of Spiritual Inspirations

“Psalm of Thanksgiving”

Psalms 21, 23, 27, 100, 121

She Lies Asleep, Requiem (chorus, horn and piano)

“Thanksgiving”

“Wake Ye People and Sing”