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LAMAR STRINGFIELD PAPERS
Summary

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Stringfield, Lamar.
Papers, 1917-1959.
3,300 items (27.5 linear feet).

Composer of symphonic works based on American folklore, and Pulitzer Traveling
Fellowship winner, conductor, flutist, teacher, and promoter of local and
regional musical groups, chiefly in North Carolina.

Stingfield's papers include correspondence, mostly 1940-1956, with
colleagues and friends, poets and dramatists with whom he collaborated,
publishers, and pupils; typed and mimeographed books of plays, historical
operas, and other works for which he composed music; and miscellaneous
writings for articles, speeches, and lyrics.  Correspondents include Robert
Russell Bennet, 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.  Works represented
include "Carolina Charcoal," "Mountain Song," "Mountain Blood," "Sodom,
Tennessee," "Born Climbin'," and "John Henry."

ONLINE CATALOG TERMS:
   Bennett, Robert Rusell, 1894-
   Berney, William, 1920-
   Composers--United States--Correspondence.
   Folk drama, American.
   Folk music--United States.
   Folklore--United States.
   Goetschius, Percy, 1853-1943.
   Goldman, Edwin Franke, 1878-1956.
   Gould, Morton, 1913-
   Green, Paul, 1894-1981.
   Johnson, Thor.
   Korn, Richard.
   La Prade, Ernest, 1889-
   Musicians--United States--Correspondence.
   O'Hara, Geoffrey, 1882-
   Overholser, Winfred, 1892-1964.
   Peerce, Jan, 1904-
   Powell, John, 1882-1963.
   Richardson, Howard.
   Shepherd, Arthur, 1880-1958.
   Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977.
   Stringfield, Lamar Edwin, 1897-1959.

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            their descendants, as stipulated by United States
            copyright law.