URI(s)
Fuller Name
- Joseph Ross
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1937-02-24
Death Date
- 2019-03-01
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1979
- Organization: New York Choral Artists
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1976
- Affiliation End: 2013
- Organization: (naf) Spoleto Festival U.S.A.
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1971
- Affiliation End: 2016
- Organization: New York Philharmonic
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Westminster Choir
- Organization: Westminster Symphonic Choir
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1971
- Affiliation End: 2004
- Organization: Westminster Choir College
Birth Place
- Vincennes (Ind.)
Associated Language
- English
Occupation
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Christmas with the Westminster Choir [SR] c1979 (a.e.)container (Joseph Flummerfelt, Dir. of Choral Activities, Westminster Choir College, since 1971; Dr.)
- found: Baker's biographical dictionary of twentieth-century classical musicians, 1997(Flummerfelt, Joseph; b. Feb. 24, 1937, Vincennes, Ind.; American conductor)
- found: New York times WWW site, viewed Mar. 6, 2019(in obituary published Mar. 5: Joseph Flummerfelt; b. Joseph Ross Flummerfelt, Feb. 24, 1937, Vincennes, Ind.; d. Friday [Mar. 1, 2019], Indianapolis, aged 82; pre-eminent American choral conductor of his generation and a collaborator with some of the nation's most renowned orchestras and maestros; director of choral activities at the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in Charleston, S.C. for 37 years until retiring in 2013; trained generations of singers and conductors at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J.; teacher and conductor at the college for 33 years; de facto chorus master of the New York Philharmonic for decades, preparing nearly 600 choral performances with the orchestra from 1971 through 2016; conducted the Westminster Choir, the larger Westminster Symphonic Choir, and the New York Choral Artists, which he founded in 1979)
LC Classification
- ML422.F64
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Change Notes
- 1981-08-11: new
- 2019-03-06: revised
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