Shirley Rabb Winston Collection
Collection
Identifier: Coll. 24
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Shirley Rabb Winston's personal papers and professional material as a speaker and staff member of the Association for Research and Enlightenment.
Dates
- 1942 - 2001
Creator
- Winston, Shirley Rabb (Person)
Conditions Governing Use
Collection is open for research use.
Biographical / Historical
Shirley Rabb Winston was born to Robert Alonzo Winston and Naomi Rabb Winston on December 27, 1920 in Evergreen, Alabama. Winston studied at the American University in Washington, D. C. and at the Washington College of Music.
She was a professional opera singer, and the youngest member of the Washington Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters. While still in Washington, she was the regular soloist at the renowned Rev. Peter Marshall's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. Later, she sang in Constitution Hall, New York's Carnegie Hall, and had major roles with the Metropolitan Opera Touring Company as well as appeared in "Oklahoma" on Broadway. She was the regular soloist at Marble Collegiate Church in New York, pastored by Reverend Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. The major portion of her career was as a mezzo soprano with the New York City Opera. Composer Richard Rodgers wrote the song "Climb Every Mountain" for her. In the early 1960s, she accepted a teaching position in opera with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
She married Patrick H. Winston in 1961. After their divorce in 1968, she moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia. She became of student of the Cayce material. Her expertise lay in past-life theory. In 1964, she participated in one of the first workshops on reincarnation held at the Association for Research and Enlightenment. During the 1970s and 1980s, she served as conference coordinator and as a speaker on behalf of the A.R.E. She lectured on Atlantis and pre-history, dreams, meditation, symbology, and the relationship between the Bible and contemporary psychic experience.
She published her book Music as the Bridge with the A.R.E. Press in 1972. She died on January 24, 2002 at the age of 81.
She was a professional opera singer, and the youngest member of the Washington Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters. While still in Washington, she was the regular soloist at the renowned Rev. Peter Marshall's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. Later, she sang in Constitution Hall, New York's Carnegie Hall, and had major roles with the Metropolitan Opera Touring Company as well as appeared in "Oklahoma" on Broadway. She was the regular soloist at Marble Collegiate Church in New York, pastored by Reverend Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. The major portion of her career was as a mezzo soprano with the New York City Opera. Composer Richard Rodgers wrote the song "Climb Every Mountain" for her. In the early 1960s, she accepted a teaching position in opera with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
She married Patrick H. Winston in 1961. After their divorce in 1968, she moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia. She became of student of the Cayce material. Her expertise lay in past-life theory. In 1964, she participated in one of the first workshops on reincarnation held at the Association for Research and Enlightenment. During the 1970s and 1980s, she served as conference coordinator and as a speaker on behalf of the A.R.E. She lectured on Atlantis and pre-history, dreams, meditation, symbology, and the relationship between the Bible and contemporary psychic experience.
She published her book Music as the Bridge with the A.R.E. Press in 1972. She died on January 24, 2002 at the age of 81.
Extent
1.8 Linear Feet (3 boxes.)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Collection arranged alphabetically by material type.
Creator
- Winston, Shirley Rabb (Person)
- Title
- Shirley Rabb Winston Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jessica Newell
- Date
- 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The Edgar Cayce Foundation Repository