Lamar Stringfield

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1. August 1930 Composer Lamar Stringfield settles in Chapel Hill The composer and flutist Lamar Stringfield and his wife decided to make their home in Chapel Hill and took one of Mrs. Green Bryan's cottages on West Franklin Street. Within weeks two of his pieces were broadcast nationally from New York.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 15, 1930, p. 1
2. October 1930 Lamar Stringfield becomes conductor of the University's Faculty Orchestra Lamar Stringfield agreed to conduct the Faculty Orchestra through its third season, which opened with a meeting in Person Hall on October 9, 1930, with D. A. McPherson, its conductor for two seasons, as concertmaster. Several of Stringfield's compositions were to be played that year.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 3, 1930, p. 1
3. November 23, 1930 Paul Green reads Tread the Green Grass with music by Lamar Stringfield Paul Green read his play Tread the Green Grass, a fantasy somewhat like an opera, in the Playmakers Theatre, with music Lamar Stringfield had composed for it played by a string quartet under his direction. The reading had been put off from November 16. People: Paul GreenSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 21, 1930, p. 1
4. January 30, 1931 Lamar Stringfield gives a chamber music recital of his folk-based works in the Playmakers Theatre Lamar Stringfield played the flute and conducted the faculty chamber orchestra, with Mrs. Fred McCall at the piano and D. A. McPherson on violin, in a recital given with the Carolina Playmakers and the music department. The second half was his own compositions drawn from Black and mountain folk tunes. People: Adeline Denham McCallSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 30, 1931, p. 1
5. March 29, 1931 Lamar Stringfield's opera The Mountain Song is read in the Playmakers Theatre Lamar Stringfield conducted the faculty chamber orchestra in a reading of his one-act opera about western North Carolina moonshiners, with his own libretto and the parts read by Carolina Playmakers; Urban T. Holmes was to sing the moonshiners' song. The Weekly called it the first opera by an American composer on the folk life and music of American people. People: Lamar StringfieldSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 3, 1931, p. 2
6. by October 9, 1931 The University starts an Institute of Folk Music under Harold S. Dyer and Lamar Stringfield The University organized an Institute of Folk Music to do for native music what the Carolina Playmakers had done for folk drama, with music department head Harold S. Dyer as director and the composer and flutist Lamar Stringfield as research associate. Its aims were a laboratory for young composers, performance of their work by a chamber orchestra, and chamber concerts. People: Lamar Stringfield, Harold S. DyerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 16, 1931, p. 2
7. November 18, 1931 University's new Institute of Folk Music gives its first laboratory concert Flutist Lamar Stringfield and pianist Adeline McCall played the first concert of the University's new Institute of Folk Music in Hill Music Hall, with works by three American composers. The institute called these events laboratory concerts and set the second for December 9. People: Adeline Denham McCall, Lamar StringfieldSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 20, 1931, p. 6
8. December 4, 1931 The Folk Music Institute announces a laboratory concert with Adeline McCall at the piano The university's Institute of Folk Music announced its second laboratory concert for 4 p.m. on Wednesday, December 9, 1931, in Hill Music Hall, with Lamar Stringfield on flute, Adeline McCall on piano and Thor Johnson on viola. The program was to include a composition by Herbert Hazelman, an Asheville freshman. People: Lamar StringfieldSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 4, 1931, p. 1 (Asheville Youth's Composition)
9. January 8, 1932 American Legion post holds an old-time fiddlers' convention in Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill post of the American Legion held an old-time fiddlers' convention in the school auditorium, with prizes for fiddlers, banjo-pickers, ballad singers and string groups, followed by square dancing. A large crowd came; one novelty was a gourd fiddle seized at a still in western North Carolina. People: Luther James Phipps, Lamar StringfieldSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 15, 1932, p. 5
10. March 21, 1932 The North Carolina Symphony Society meets at the Carolina Inn and elects Joseph Hyde Pratt president At a luncheon meeting at the Carolina Inn on Monday, March 21, 1932, backers of Lamar Stringfield's plan for a state orchestra elected Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt president of the North Carolina Symphony Society and approved a drive to enlist 20,000 members at $1 each. The society itself had been formed a few weeks earlier at a meeting in President Frank Porter Graham's office, with Pratt in the chair. The News's account of the 30th anniversary concert in 1962 recalled the Carolina Inn meeting as the start of what it called the nation's first state-supported orchestra. People: Lamar Stringfield, Joseph Hyde PrattSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 26, 1962, p. 30 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 4, 1932, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, March 25, 1932, p. 1
11. May 14, 1932 The North Carolina Symphony gives its first concert, in Hill Music Hall Fifty-three musicians from fourteen towns gathered in Chapel Hill for five rehearsals and played the Symphony Society's opening concert under Lamar Stringfield, with Beethoven's First Symphony, Wagner's Rienzi overture and works by Borodin, Tchaikovsky and Stoessel. It was planned as the first of a series leading to a full-time state orchestra. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, Lamar StringfieldSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 13, 1932, p. 1
12. April 29, 1933 Chapel Hill holds a Dogwood Festival of folk music, dancing and crafts The Dogwood Festival filled the Forest Theatre with fiddlers, ballad singers, the Carrboro band, square and English country dances and the Hugh Morson school dancers, while more than 1,500 North Carolina crafts were shown in the Graham Memorial. The 25-cent admissions covered expenses and left a small fund, and the committee planned to make it a yearly event; the Weekly called it the first festival. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, Phillips Russell, Lamar StringfieldSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 5, 1933, p. 5