# Lamar Stringfield > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lamar_Stringfield > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lamar_Stringfield.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Stringfield > Source revision: 1348251838 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American classical composer}} '''Lamar Edwin Stringfield''' (October 10, 1897 – January 21, 1959) was a classical composer, flutist, symphony conductor, and anthologist of American folk music. ==Early career== He was born in Raleigh, North Carolina and studied at [Mars Hill College](/source/Mars_Hill_College) near [Asheville, North Carolina](/source/Asheville%2C_North_Carolina) and [Wake Forest University](/source/Wake_Forest_University) before joining the army in 1916.[http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?ct=ddl&sp=search&k=Markers&sv=H-94%20-%20LAMAR%20STRINGFIELD%201897-1959 "Marker H-94: Lamar Stringfield 1917-1959"]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}''North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources'' In the service, he played with the 105th Engineers regimental band stationed in France during World War I. He studied composition in Paris with [Nadia Boulanger](/source/Nadia_Boulanger) and later graduated with a diploma in flute performance from the [Institute of Musical Art](/source/Juilliard_School) (1924), having studied with [Georges Barrère](/source/Georges_Barr%C3%A8re).Hager, Peter C. (01 March 2011) [http://www.encyclopediaofappalachia.com/entry.php?rec=201 "Lamar Stringfield (1897–1959): Classical composer, flautist, and symphony conductor."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329184442/http://www.encyclopediaofappalachia.com/entry.php?rec=201 |date=2014-03-29 }}''Encyclopedia of Appalachia'' A highly respected flutist and composer of flute music, Stringfield was a founding officer of the New York Flute Club in 1920 along with William Kincaid (later principal flutist of the [Philadelphia Orchestra](/source/Philadelphia_Orchestra)) and Georges Barrère of the [New York Symphony Orchestra](/source/New_York_Symphony_Orchestra) (predecessor of the [New York Philharmonic](/source/New_York_Philharmonic)). The Club has featured the world's most prominent flutists in performance and other programs for over ninety years.[http://www.nyfluteclub.org/html/historyandarchives.html "History & Archives"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531033303/http://www.nyfluteclub.org/html/historyandarchives.html |date=2012-05-31 }}''New York Flute Club'' ==Conducting== Stringfield conducted orchestra concerts in Asheville beginning in the 1920s, organizing the predecessor to the [Asheville Symphony Orchestra](/source/Asheville_Symphony_Orchestra) for an exhibition concert in 1927. Stringfield won the [Pulitzer Travelling Fellowship](/source/Pulitzer_Prize) for his musical composition, ''From the Southern Mountains'' in 1928. He founded the [North Carolina Symphony](/source/North_Carolina_Symphony) in [Chapel Hill](/source/Chapel_Hill%2C_North_Carolina) in 1932 serving as conductor until 1938.Schnyder, John. Interview by Lori Huberman and Meredith Gilliam Sunday, August 4, 1935 He was associate conductor at the [Radio City Music Hall](/source/Radio_City_Music_Hall) for the 1938–1939 season, was appointed Music Director of the [Charlotte Symphony](/source/Charlotte_Symphony_Orchestra) in 1945 and conductor of the [Knoxville Symphony Orchestra](/source/Knoxville_Symphony_Orchestra) in 1946, serving for only one season before returning to conduct the Charlotte Symphony for the 1948–1949 season.[http://www.knoxvillesymphony.com/our-history/lamar-stringfield/ "Lamar Stringfield: A Natural Showman (1946–1947)"]''Knoxville Symphony Official Website''[http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=7536&Result=1 "Lamar Stringfield"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129151004/http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=7536&Result=1 |date=2014-11-29 }}''The Historical Marker Database'' Guest conducting engagements included the [National Symphony Orchestra](/source/National_Symphony_Orchestra) (November 13, 1932), [United States Navy Band](/source/United_States_Navy_Band) in 1936,(15 March 1936) [https://archive.today/20121203003624/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/240231102.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+15,+1936&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post+(1923-1954)&edition=&startpage=SS4&desc=Lamar+Stringfield+To+Conduct+Concert "Lamar Stringfield To Conduct Concert: Composer Will Take Charge of Navy Band Program"]''The Washington Post''(November 26, 1932) "Music Club" Column, ''Burlington, N.C., Daily Times-News'' the Miami Symphony, New York Civic and Festival Orchestras, in addition to numerous other regional orchestras.Macdowell, Wanda. (16 December 1935) [https://archive.today/20120711161030/http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19351216&id=qC4uAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sdUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5292,4568577 "Debut is made By Orchestra: Miami Symphony Heard at High School with Stringfield"]''The Miami News''De Lorenzo, Leonardo. ''My complete story of the flute: the instrument, the performer, the music,'' Tennessee Tech University Press, 1951. {{ISBN|0896722775}} ==Folk music and legacy== He had a deep interest in folk music, publishing a book of arrangements of Appalachian folk songs with [Bascom Lamar Lunsford](/source/Bascom_Lamar_Lunsford) in 1929 and founding the Institute of Folk Music at the [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill](/source/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill) in 1930. Working closely with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright [Paul Eliot Greene](/source/Paul_Green_(playwright)), he contributed music for ''[The Lost Colony](/source/Lost_Colony_(play))'' (as of 2009, the United States' second longest running historical outdoor drama) in 1937 and four other works. The Lamar Stringfield papers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill included Stringfield's correspondence with [Robert Russell Bennett](/source/Robert_Russell_Bennett), [Percy Goetschius](/source/Percy_Goetschius), [Edwin Franko Goldman](/source/Edwin_Franko_Goldman), [Morton Gould](/source/Morton_Gould), [Paul Green](/source/Paul_Green_(playwright)), [Thor Johnson](/source/Thor_Johnson), [Geoffrey O'Hara](/source/Geoffrey_O'Hara), [Winfred Overholser](/source/Winfred_Overholser), [Jan Peerce](/source/Jan_Peerce), [John Powell](/source/John_Powell_(musician)), [Howard Richardson](/source/Howard_Richardson_(playwright)), [Arthur Shepherd](/source/Arthur_Shepherd), and [Leopold Stokowski](/source/Leopold_Stokowski), in addition to many of his works.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/025327490 "Lamar Stringfield papers, 1917–1959"]''University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill'' ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stringfield, Lamar}} Category:Mars Hill University alumni Category:Wake Forest University alumni Category:American classical flautists Category:American male conductors (music) Category:Musicians from Raleigh, North Carolina Category:1897 births Category:1959 deaths Category:United States Army personnel of World War I Category:20th-century American conductors (music) Category:20th-century American classical composers Category:American male classical composers Category:Appalachian music Category:20th-century American musicologists Category:20th-century American flautists Category:American male flautists Category:20th-century American male composers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Lamar Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Stringfield) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Stringfield?action=history)). 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