Alice Marion Shaw

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 include:

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]