Alice Marion Shaw


Alice Marion Shaw was an American composer, pianist, and teacher who was a well-known accompanist during the early 20th century.
Shaw was one of three children born in Rockland, Maine, to Reverend Erastus Melville Shaw and the composer Carrie Burpee Shaw. She studied piano with Zygmunt Stojowski and composition with Percy Goetschius at the Institute of Musical Art. She taught at the Rockland Music School, 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. She taught piano in New York and accompanied many noted artists, including flutist George Barrere, violinists Eddy Brown and Scipione Guidi, and singers Louis Graveure, Vernon Stiles, and Eleanor Painter Strong. She often performed the accompaniments from memory.
Shaw composed nearly 100 songs as well as music for organ, piano, cello, flute, and violin. Her music was published by J. Fischer & Brother and Luckhardt & Belder. Songs she composed include:

Songs

  • First Day of the Week
  • “Little Man in Gray”
  • “May Noon”
  • “Night”
  • “Once on a Radiant Morning”
  • “One April Day”
  • “Pussy-Willows”
  • “Road to China”
  • “There is a Little Lady”
  • “To Go and Forget”
  • “To the Unknown”
  • “Waiting”