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Robert Shaw became popular in an intensely competitive business where musical pedigree is highly valued. And yet, he was not a gifted singer and lacked formal training as a keyboardist and conductor.

1938: Michael Terrence McNally is born Nov. 3 in St. Petersburg, FL, to Hubert and Dorothy (née Rapp) McNally, transplanted New Yorkers who run a seaside bar and grill.  His only sibling, Peter, is born six years later. 1946-9: After the family bar and grill ...

Robert Shaw's integrated chorales were among the first to break the color barrier in the American South. He took his inspiring music on the road, bringing his ensembles to small towns across America and to several continents.

Rita Moreno on how Terrence McNally owned who he was, and McNally on the advice that John Steinbeck gave him that he ignored.

Robert Lawson Shaw was born on a Sunday, April 30th, 1916, the second of five children. He was born in Red Bluff, a small town in the northern reaches of California. His family was a clerical one where both his father and grandfather were ministers. ...

In Every Act of Life, Terrence McNally says, “The need to connect that my characters feel is everything in my work.” Terrence and I come out of very different backgrounds and experiences, but we’ve both seen that the real-life power of connection can rival anything ...

Trace the journey of one of the greatest choral music conductors in the world. With no formal training, Robert Shaw achieved early success in popular music and later became legendary for his interpretations of classical music’s choral masterpieces.

Edie Falco on Terrence McNally's gift for writing and what it was like for her to star in the 2002 Broadway revival of "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune."

Decades before digital technology transformed how we make and see pictures, Garry Winogrand made over 1 million of them with his 35mm Leica camera, creating an encyclopedic portrait of America from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. American Masters – Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable is the ...

Originally published in Art in America, May 2018. Copyright © ArtNews Media, LLC. Reproduced by permission.  by Robert J. Seidman  I had a small paper which had been dead for years, and I was trying in every way I could think of to build up its circulation. . ...