Table of Contents
Preface: Painting a Life xi
Prologue: American Self-Invention xv
Part 1 Roots 1
1 California Boy 5
2 The Lawsons and the Shaws 13
3 The Preaching Line 25
4 Sunlit Days and a Shadow 29
5 Jim 31
6 Holly 39
7 Anne 45
8 Pomona 49
9 Waring 55
10 "It should have been you" 79
11 The Healing Incident 95
12 "You should have seen New York then" 99
13 A Tale of Two Chorales 107
14 RCA-The First Recording Career 131
15 "32 Tempestuous Years" 149
16 Demons 163
17 American as Corn 171
Part 2 Formation 175
18 Toscanini: The Maestro 179
19 Mr. Szell and Cleveland-A Splendid Misery 199
20 A Polyphony of Three Men 225
21 Church Musician-A Happy Parenthetical 237
22 Fathers and Sons 243
Part 3 Mission 257
23 Atlanta 261
24 From Choral Master to Complete Musician 299
25 Understanding the Words 313
26 Disciplines and Necessities 319
27 Musical Cathedrals and Monsters 333
28 Demons Again 343
29 Caroline 349
30 Supporting Players 357
Part 4 Heritage 365
31 Telarc: Recording the Canon 369
32 France 387
33 Return to the Small Choir 397
34 By His Work Shall We Know Him 403
35 Enigma Variations 409
Part 5 Toward Purity 417
36 Sage 421
37 Channeling the Masters 429
38 Three Lesser Greats: Britten, Poulenc, and Hindemith 447
39 Clarity, Energy, and Devotion 461
40 Repetition, Epistles, and Melody 473
41 Icons Are Meant to be Broken 479
Part 6 M=L=G 487
42 Last Days 491
43 Last Music 495
44 Mensch 505
45 Music Alone 507
46 Disappearing 511
47 Credo 515
Author's Note: Why Deep River? 521
Acknowledgments 527
Appendices 533
I Shaw Timeline and Awards 535
II Shaw's Core Repertoire: Summary of Performance History 540
III Non-Vocal, Oft-Repeated Works Conducted by Shaw 542
IV Most Important Shaw Recordings 546
V Shaw Recordings with Toscanini 548
VI A Shaw Letter on Toscanini 550
VII Two Sermons Given by Shaw (When He Was in College and Substituting for His Father in the Pulpit) 553
VIII Thumbnail Sketch of Shaw's History with the Music of Bach 561
IX Three Shaw Meditations on Bach 564
X "Worship and the Arts" Combined with "Conservative Arts" 569
XI Shaw on His Connection to African-Americans and Their Music 585
XII A Keith Burris Letter to Several Friends on Seeing/Hearing a Partially Staged Contemporary Performance of the St. Matthew Passion, in Shaw's English Translation 588
XIII Documentary Films of Robert Shaw Choral Workshops at Carnegie Hall 591
XIV Major Tours of the Robert Shaw Chorale 1948 1967 (Compiled By Nathan Zullinger) 592
XV Commissions and Premieres Conducted By Robert Shaw (Compiled By Nathan Zullinger) 608
Index 613
About the Author 633
