Collection: Joseph Ross Flummerfelt papers

Collection Statement

News clippings, photographs, programs, stagebills, tickets, sheet music, reviews, biographies, correspondence, scrapbook, phono disc and obituary.

Dates

1954 - 2019

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Usage Restrictions

Biographical Sketch

Joseph Flummerfelt was a 1958 graduate of DePauw University, where he studied organ and church music. He taught at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey for three decades. He was a co-founder of the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina in 1977, and its director of choral activities from 1977 to 2013. He was also the chorus master of the Festival dei Due Mondi in Italy from 1971 to 1993. According to The New York Times, he "played an outsize, if not always highly visible, role in American classical music. He died March 1, 2019.

Extent

1.79 Cubic Feet (DC 3691, DC 3242, DC 2596) : Papers, scrapbook, phono disc ; DC 3691 (legal-size document case), .43 cu. ft.; DC 3442 (large flat box), 1.06 cu. ft.; DC 2568 (Phono Disc box), .30 cu. ft.