Closing Session: Final Thoughts and the Spoken Word

In August 1997, Robert Shaw conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performing the music of Brahms, in observance of the centennial of Brahms’ death. Shaw delivered the sermonette, or “Spoken Word” that morning - the first and only occasion in the 86 years of the broadcast that anyone other than an LDS commentator had ever given the spoken word message. This closing session will feature faculty who worked closely with Shaw, as well as Nola Frink, Shaw’s administrative assistant and the choral administrator of the Atlanta Symphony Choruses during Shaw’s tenure in Atlanta. Together they will share personal insights and anecdotes of working with Shaw during the last years of his life. Shaw will have the final word as we view his address on Music and the Spoken Word broadcast #3547.