Alice Marion Shaw (born August 22, 1890) was an American composer, pianist, and teacher who was a well-known accompanist during the early 20th century.[1]
Shaw was one of three children born in Rockland, Maine, to Reverend Erastus Melville Shaw and the composer Carrie Burpee Shaw.[2] She studied piano with Zygmunt Stojowski and composition with Percy Goetschius at the Institute of Musical Art (today the Juilliard School). She taught at the Rockland Music School,[3] which was started by her mother, before moving to New York.
Shaw was the accompanist for the New York Rubinstein Club in 1915 and for the Maine Festival in 1916.[3] She taught piano in New York and accompanied many noted artists, including flutist George Barrere, violinists Eddy Brown and Scipione Guidi,[1] and singers Louis Graveure, Vernon Stiles, and Eleanor Painter Strong.[4] She often performed the accompaniments from memory.[5]
Shaw composed nearly 100 songs[6] as well as music for organ, piano, cello, flute, and violin.[7] Her music was published by J. Fischer & Brother[8] and Luckhardt & Belder.[9] Songs she composed included:
Songs
- First Day of the Week (mixed chorus)[1]
- “Little Man in Gray”[5]
- “May Noon” (text by Aldrich)[9]
- “Night”[10]
- “Once on a Radiant Morning”[1]
- “One April Day” (text by W. P. Gilmour)[9]
- “Pussy-Willows” (text by Winnifred Fales)[11]
- “Road to China” (text by Mazie V. Caruthers)[9]
- “There is a Little Lady” (text by W. P. Gilmour)[9]
- “To Go and Forget” (text by Edwin Markham)[9][12]
- “To the Unknown”[13]
- “Waiting” (text by Charles Hanson Towne)[14][15]