Trivia Tuesday: Lamar Stringfield
July 30, 2019
Did you know: North Carolina-born composer, conductor, and flutist Lamar Stringfield won a Pulitzer Prize for composition in 1928 for his orchestral suite "From the Southern Mountains." He went on to found the North Carolina Symphony and was known thereafter as an authority on southern ballads and folklore.
"Mountain Song" from Stringfield's Pulitzer Prize winning suite, "From the Southern Mountains"
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