Robert Shaw
Robert Shaw (1916-1999) was an American choral and orchestral conductor, born in Red Bluff, California. He formed the Collegiate Chorale and in 1948 the Robert Shaw Chorale, then from 1956 worked under George Szell at the Cleveland Orchestra. From 1967 to 1988 he was music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. New World Records has issued his recordings of Stephen Paulus's Violin Concerto and Ned Rorem's String Symphony.
