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.

Shaw was one of the 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 (today the Juilliard School). 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 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 (mixed chorus) “Once on a Radiant Morning” “Road to China” (text by Mazie V. Caruthers) “To the Unknown” “Waiting” (text by Charles Hanson Towne)