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In 1941 he founded the Collegiate Chorale, a group notable in its day for its Racial Integration . The group performed Beethoven 's 9th Symphony with the NBC symphony and Arturo Toscanini , who referred to Shaw as 'The Maestro I have been looking for.' He went on to found the Robert Shaw Chorale in 1949, a group which produced numerous recordings and visited 30 countries in tours sponsored by the U.S. State Department . Shaw was named music director of the San Diego Symphony in 1953 and served in that post for four years. Only after his San Diego tenure did he become an apprentice again, studying the art of conducting with George Szell and serving as his assistant at the Cleveland Orchestra for eleven seasons. From 1967-1988 he was musical director and conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra . In 1970 he founded the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus. After 1988 he continued to conduct the Orchestra and teach in a series of summer festivals and week-long Carnegie Hall workshops for choral Conductor s and Singers . During his long career, Shaw drew attention to choral music and became the dean of american choral conductors, mentoring a number of younger conductors, such as Margaret Hillis , and inspiring thousands of singers he worked with around the United States. He achieved such spectacular results that he raised choral standards in the United States to new heights, and his recordings are still the benchmark for choral singing. His performances of Messiah (Handel) , Bach's Mass In B Minor , Beethoven's Missa Solemnis , and other famous choral works have become world famous, and Shaw recorded each one of these works more than once. Shaw received 16 Grammy awards and was a 1991 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors . EXTERNAL LINKS
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