of Christmas. Shaw collaborated with noted choral composer and conductor Alice Parker (a former student of Shaw's at the Juilliard School) on arrangements of folksongs, hymns, spirituals, and Christmas music that remain popular with choruses today. Shaw recorded for a variety of labels, beginning with a single record for American Decca and numerous releases on RCA Victor during the 78 rpm era. During the 1950s and 1960s, Shaw and his Chorale made many LP's for RCA Victor Red Seal Records. From 1977 onward, most of his recordings appeared on the Telarc label. For that company he led not only the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus but also the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, which drew its personnel largely from the Atlanta Symphony Chamber Chorus, and the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, a group assembled for Shaw's summer choral workshops in France. His last recording was for Telarc of Dvořák's Stabat Mater with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, chorus, and soloists. Shaw recorded many of the great choral-orchestral works more than once, and his performances of Handel's Messiah, J.S. Bach's Mass in B minor, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Orff's Carmina Burana, Verdi's Requiem, and other similar masterworks remain highly regarded. In a move toward historically informed performance, Shaw's first recording of Messiah, in 1966, used a chorus of only thirty-one singers. In 2016. Shaw's recording of the Rachmaninoff's Vespers (All-Night Vigil), by the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. Awards 14 Grammy Awards 4 ASCAP Awards for service to contemporary music First Guggenheim Fellowship ever awarded to a conductor Alice M. Ditson Conductor's Award for Service to American Music George Peabody Medal for outstanding contributions to music in America Gold Baton Award of the American Symphony Orchestra League for "distinguished service to music and the arts," American National Medal of Arts France's Officier des Arts et des Lettres England's Gramophone Award 1991 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors References External links Atlanta Symphony Orchestra website Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus website Collegiate Chorale website Robert Shaw Resource website The Robert Shaw Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University Interview with Robert Shaw, August 14, 1985 Robert Shaw--Man of Many Voices Website for film about Robert Shaw 1916 births 1999 deaths 20th-century American conductors (music) Musicians from California American choral conductors American male conductors (music) Grammy Award winners People from Ontario, California Pomona College alumni