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Robert Shaw (April 30, 1916 – January 25, 1999) was a conductor of vocal music most famous for his operate using his namesake Chorale and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Witharound 1941 he founded the Collegiate Chorale, a class action notable in its day for its racial integration. A class action performed Beethoven's 9th symphony with the NBC symphony & Arturo Toscanini, who referred to Shaw when 'A Master We've been wanting to find.' He went in to noticed a Robert Shaw Chorale around 1949, a class action which produced many recordings & visited Xxx countries in tours sponsored by the U.S. State Department. From either 1967-1988 he was musical director & conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Around 1970 he founded a Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus. When 1988 he continued to conduct the Orchestra & teach inside a series of summertime festivals & week-long Carnegie Hall workshops for choral conductors and singers. Shaw received Sixteen Grammy awards and was the 1991 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.
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Hartford Chorale: Robert Shaw Tribute article. Singers.com: Robert Shaw Biographical article, with CD reviews. Telarc International: Robert Shaw Includes biography and Telarc discography. A Legendary Performance An 80th-birthday tribute from Pomona College Magazine. Conductor Robert Shaw dies at 82 Obituary from his hometown and high school. Obies: Robert Shaw, To Work With a Master Article describing work with Oberlin College students. Robert Shaw dead at 82 Obituary from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, in the city where he conducted for 21 years. Conductor Robert Shaw Article from Pomona College magazine, where he graduated. Passage: Robert Shaw, 82 Obituary. |
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