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Collection Overview
| Size | 27.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 3300 items) |
| Abstract | Lamar Stringfield (1897-1959) of North Carolina was a composer of symphonic works based on American folklore, Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship winner, conductor, flutist, teacher, and promoter of local and regional musical groups, chiefly in North Carolina. The collection contains the papers of Stringfield including correspondence, mostly 1940-1956, with colleagues and friends, poets, and dramatists with whom he collaborated, publishers, pupils, and civic leaders and patrons of the arts in North Carolina and Tennessee; typed and mimeographed books of plays, historical operas, and other works for which he composed music; scrapbooks; photographs; and miscellaneous writings for articles, speeches, and lyrics. Correspondents include Robert Russell Bennett, William Berney, Percy Goetschius, Edwin Franke Goldman, Morton Gould, Paul E. Green, Thor Johnson, Richard Korn, Ernest La Prade, Geoffrey O'Hara, Winfred Overholser, Jan Peerce, John Powell, Howard Richardson, Arthur Shepherd, and Leopold Stokowski. Topics include the development of American music; the organization of local orchestras, music groups, and concerts; fair compensation to composers for the performance of their works, including his own; flute construction and repair, along with other woodwind instruments; Stringfield's appearance as a guest artist at arts festivals and concerts in North Carolina; the development of state and regional orchestras with government aid during the early 1930s; the performance of Stringfield's works by other conductors; efforts to have certain works performed by other conductors; financial problems; and illnesses and operations. Works represented include Carolina Charcoal, Mountain Song, Mountain Blood, Sodom, Tennessee, Born Climbin', and John Henry. |
| Creator | Stringfield, Lamar. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Biographical Information
Lamar Stringfield (1897-1959) of North Carolina was a composer of symphonic works based on American folklore, Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship winner, conductor, flutist, teacher, and promoter of local and regional musical groups, chiefly in North Carolina.
Stringfield studied the flute for a year in Asheville, N.C., and then in New York, where he studied under George Barrere, Percy Goetschius, Franklin Robinson, and George Wedge. He studied composition in Paris, France with Nadia Boulanger in 1928, and conducting with Chalmers Clifton and Henry Hadley. He received the Pulitizer Traveling Fellowship award for From the Southern Mountains in 1928; played and conducted with music ensembles and symphony orchestras in New York until 1930; promoted the organization of the Institute of Folk Music the University of North Carolina in 1930; organized and directed the North Carolina Symphony, 1932-1935; was associate conductor, Radio City Music Hall, 1938-1939; was a lecturer on American folk music at Juilliard Summer School, 1939-1941; taught composition and orchestration at Claremeont College, summer 1942; was musical director of the Knoxville Symphony, 1946-1947; was conductor of the Symphonette of Charlotte, 1948-1949; and was musical director of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, 1948-1949.
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Scope and Content
The collection contains the papers of Lamar Stingfield (1897-1959) including correspondence, mostly 1940-1956, with colleagues and friends, poets, and dramatists with whom he collaborated, publishers, pupils, and civic leaders and patrons of the arts in North Carolina and Tennessee; typed and mimeographed books of plays, historical operas, and other works for which he composed music; scrapbooks; photographs; and miscellaneous writings for articles, speeches, and lyrics. Correspondents include Robert Russell Bennett, William Berney, Percy Goetschius, Edwin Franke Goldman, Morton Gould, Paul E. Green, Thor Johnson, Richard Korn, Ernest La Prade, Geoffrey O'Hara, Winfred Overholser, Jan Peerce, John Powell, Howard Richardson, Arthur Shepherd, and Leopold Stokowski. Topics include the development of American music; the organization of local orchestras, music groups, and concerts; fair compensation to composers for the performance of their work, including his own; flute construction and repair, along with other woodwind instruments; Stringfield's appearance as a guest artist at arts festivals and concerts in North Carolina; the development of state and regional orchestras with government aid during the early 1930s; the performance of Stringfield's works by other conductors; efforts to have certain works performed by other conductors; financial problems; and illnesses and operations. Works represented include Carolina Charcoal, Mountain Song, Mountain Blood, Sodom, Tennessee, Born Climbin', and John Henry.
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Series 1. Correspondence, 1921-1959 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
The series contains correspondence of Lamar Stringfield, chiefly 1940-1956, with colleagues and friends, poets, and dramatists with whom he collaborated, publishers, pupils, and civic leaders and patrons of the arts in North Carolina and Tennessee. Correspondents include Robert Russell Bennett, William Berney, Percy Goetschius, Edwin Franke Goldman, Morton Gould, Paul E. Green, Thor Johnson, Richard Korn, Ernest La Prade, Geoffrey O'Hara, Winfred Overholser, Jan Peerce, John Powell, Howard Richardson, Arthur Shepherd, and Leopold Stokowski. Topics include the development of American music; the organization of local orchestras, music groups, and concerts; fair compensation to composers for the performance of their works, including his own; flute construction and repair, along with other woodwind instruments; Stringfield's appearance as a guest artist at arts festivals and concerts in North Carolina; the development of state and regional orchestras with goverment aid during the early 1930s; the performance of Stringfield's works by other conductors; efforts to get certain works performed by other conductors; financial problems; and illnesses and operations.
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Series 2. Programs, Scripts, and Writings, 1931-1957 and undated.
The series contains programs, scripts, and related materials for Carolina Charcoal, The Mountain Song, Mountain Blood, Sodom, Tennessee, and Born Climbin'; as well as a biography, bibliography, photographs, clippings, programs, and other writings by and related to Lamar Stringfield.
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Oversize Papers.
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3522/1 |
Oversize papers #03522, Series: "Oversize Papers." OPF-3522/1 |
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Additions
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Addition of 1973, 1927-1958 and undated.
The series includes correspondence, programs, clippings, letters, and postcards from Stringfield to Richard Korn, sheet music, and secretary's notebooks. The correspondence is chiefly between Stringfield and his wife Caroline, along with correspondence between Caroline and her parents T. B and Annie O. Crawford.
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Addition of 1978, 1917-1954 and undated.
The series primarily contains scripts, scores and programs of Stringfield along with music by other composers, notebooks, and scrapbooks.
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Items Separated
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2011; Nancy Kaiser, May 2021
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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