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...reason Robert Shaw's conducting abilities came as a surprise to high-brow critics is that he grew up on the popular side of the musical tracks. Five years ago he was studying for the ministry at Pomona College, Calif. His father is the Rev. Shirley R. Shaw of the University Christian Church in San Diego. But there was also music in the Shaw family. Robert's mother, Nell Lawson Shaw, was a well-known West Coast church singer. His older sister, Hollace, made a soprano name for herself on the General Electric Hour of Charm radio program...
...20th birthday last week with a concert in Manhattan's Town Hall. No crowd clamored to buy standing room. But to many musicians it was an important event. For 20 years the league had been almost the only hand to uphold the frequently flickering torch of contemporary high-brow music...
...redheaded parrot in the belief that it was a geranium. But when she reached England with the statesman she always calls "Mr. W," she was still in her prime and determined to miss nothing. England was impressed by rugged, eloquent Mr. W. Benjamin Disraeli noticed Webster's "fine brow, lofty, broad, and beetled, deepset eyes." Wrote Philosopher Carlyle to Emerson: "He is a magnificent specimen...
...last six years the New Friends have played their devotees whole marathons of chamber music: virtually the entire output of Beethoven, Haydn, Schumann, Brahms, Mozart. They have never deigned to relieve the high-brow austerity of their concerts by anything so low-brow as a violin concerto or an opera aria...
...bust. But Manhattan concertgoers bought out 97% of the first season's tickets before she had even presented her first concert. Today, the New Friends still operate without the help of wealthy patrons, still qualify as one of the very few entirely self-supporting high-brow musical institutions...