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Robert Shaw Choral, Robert Shaw Conductor-Joy to the World LP
Condition: Good/Good (Cover/Media)
Label: RCA Camden CAL 448
Genre-Jazz, classical, folk, world, country, c
Release Country: USA
Release Date 1958
Track list
A1 Joy to the World, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear; Angles we Have Herd on High; 
A2 O Come, O Come Emmanuel; O Little town of Bethlehem; Silent Night
A3 O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles); Luther’s Cradle Hymn (Away in a Manger); God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
A4 We three Kings; The First Noel; Hark the Herald Angles Sing
B1 Shepard’s Carol; Coventry Carol; Paptapan
B2 My Dancing Day, I Wonder as I Wander, Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
B3 Carol of the Bells; Lo, How a Rose e’er Blooming; Go Tell it on the Mountain
B4 I sing of a Maiden; Echo Hymn; Wassail Song; Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly
About
The spirit of Christmas with its good tiding and its fa-la-las prevails wherever Robert Shaw Chorale makes its appearance; since that has been from Maine to Mexico, in Alaska, Hawaii, Europe and the Middle East, it has brought joy to at least half the world. Their numerous concerts of Christmas Hymns and carols alone have enhanced many a Yuleseason, including that of the late Arturo Toscanini. 
Following a Christmas Eve appearance with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1951, the Robert Shaw Chorale piled into cars and drove up to the home of Toscanini’s son, Walter who had arranged this lovely surprise for his father. Quietly, he ushered the singers into the huge two-story reception hall they let forth with a joyous “Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly,” A door opened and Toscanini appeared, looking very much like a child approaching his first Christmas tree. The concert lasted way into the night, interrupted by refreshments, handshakes and a little “ converzatione” with the happy host. 
Toscanini had been one of the first and most enthusiastic supporters of Shaw’s choral enterprises: the Collegiate Chorale and the Robert Shaw Chorale. In 1945 he had sent the following invitation to the Collegiate Chorale: Would Shaw and his singers care to join him and the NBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony? Such a request was the musical equivalent to an invitation from the Whitehouse. 
Shaw and his group jumped at the chance, but not without some apprehension. Toscanini’s uncompromising musical standards, his super human demands for perfection, his terrible tantrums when displeased, had been the downfall of man an artist. 125 singers did not want to die of embarrassment, and so they went to work, until every phrase, every note, every intonation of Beethoven’s great “Ode to Joy” was letter-perfect. On the day of the final chorus rehearsal Toscanini dropped in unexpectedly. Awestruck, some of the singers were beginning to miss the cues. But Shaw quickly brought his startled artists under control. When after the final chord, they turned their eye again to Toscanini, they looked into a beaming face. “Bravo” shouted the awe-inspiring master; I’ve found the conductor I have been looking for.”
A few years prior to that, Toscanini would have found his man helping Billy Rose train his Aquacade singers, or preparing choruses for such Broadway hits as Carmen Jones, Laughing Room Only and the Seven Lively Arts.
Shaw, a native California, started his musical career at Pomona College where he was enrolled as a theology student. His conducting of the college glee club was just a hobby, although a serious one. By some coincidence Pomona was selected by Warner Bros. as the setting for a film, Varsity Show, staring the pop bandleader, Fred Waring. After watching young Shaw with his glee club, Waring was so impressed that he invited the would-be minister to come east to conduct the Waring Glee Club, then appearing weekly on the radio. That was the beginning. 
In 1941, Shaw founded his collegiate chorale, a group of 185 armature singers which aimed at and achieved professional standards and soon became one of the foremost organizations of its kind. In the short years of whirlwind activity Shaw won an unequal reputation as a conductor of all types of choral music, plus the distinction of having greatly fostered the art of choral singing all over the country.
Shortly after organizing his collegiate chorale show ventured into orchestral conducting and, in 1943, was named outstanding American born conductor-of-the years by the national association of American Composers and Conductors. Since then he has appeared as guest conductor with the NBC, ABC and CBS Symphonies, the New York Philharmonic, The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Presently he holds the post of assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra. 
In 1948, Shaw formed a new chorus-The Robert Shaw Choral-made up entirely of professional singer’s right from the start the chorus was appraised on in terms of superlatives. :… the tonal quality was ravishingly beautiful at all dynamic levels, the balance nearly incredible, the attack miraculous, the enunciation and stylistic approach to the language superb… In short, we have here an organization of advanced vocal soloists the direction of a superb choral conductor to produce music of the utmost authenticity.” 
The maintain this high level of artistry, Shaw works his singers relentlessly. In rehearsal, his mood might range from the pedantry of a musicology professor to the uninhibited gusto of a college cheerleader “I’m going to work you hard tonight,” he usually promises and then he does just that. Frequently he begins rehearsal with a short period of limbering-up exercise-calisthenics, back-bends, yawing-designed to relax tight throats and to tone u breathing apparatuses. That done, he will launch into a straight 2-hour rehearsal, often without a break. Luckily the singers share Shaw’s sense of dedication and subscribe to his credo that “…Music is not a luxury but a necessity… Because it is the persistent focus of man’s intelligence, aspiration and good will. ‘It is thus not only a chorus with a voice, but a chorus with a heart-and there by hangs it’s key to success. 
Notes by: Helen H. Less
An RCA statement about RCA Camden Records by G.R. Marek, Vice-President and General manager RCA Victor Record Division. 
“We are proud of the opportunity to make great music by great artists 

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