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Robert Shaw, music director emeritus and conductor laureate of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO), died January 25, 1999, in a New Haven, Connecticut, hospital. He was 82.

Shaw was the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's music director from 1967-1988. He won fourteen Grammys, and his latest album, with works of Barber, Bartok and Vaughan Williams, was nominated for a 1999 Grammy.

Robert Lawson Shaw was born in Red Bluff, California, on April 30, 1916. Coming from a line of evangelical preachers, he was destined for the ministry. Shaw majored in religion and philosophy at Pomona College in ...

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