Lamar Edwin Stringfield (October 10, 1897 – January 21, 1959) was a classical composer, flutist, symphony conductor, and anthologist of American folk music.
[1] In the service, he played with the 105th Engineers regimental band stationed in France during World War I.
The Club has featured the world's most prominent flutists in performance and other programs for over ninety years.
Stringfield won the Pulitzer Travelling Fellowship for his musical composition, From the Southern Mountains in 1928.
The Lamar Stringfield papers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill included Stringfield's correspondence with Robert Russell Bennett, Percy Goetschius, Edwin Franko Goldman, Morton Gould, Paul Green, Thor Johnson, Geoffrey O'Hara, Winfred Overholser, Jan Peerce, John Powell, Howard Richardson, Arthur Shepherd, and Leopold Stokowski, in addition to many of his works.