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LEROY ANDERSON

29th June 1908 --- 18th May 1975

Leroy  Anderson ( born  1908, Cambridge,  Mass., U.S.--died  1975, Woodbury, Conn.),  American
composer  conductor, arranger,  and composer of "Sleigh Ride" & "Blue Tango" and other popular
light orchestral music with memorable, optimistic melodies and often unusual percussion effects.

The son of  Swedish immigrants, Anderson studied composition under Walter Piston  and Georges
Enesco at Harvard University he earned a B.A.in 1929 and a M.A.in 1930, he  also studied  German
and Scandinavian languages and directed the Harvard University Band. Anderson's fluency in nine
languages aided  him as a  U.S. Army interpreter  during World  War II; he also served in the army
during the Korean War.

Anderson began a long and productive association with the Boston Pops Orchestra in 1936 as the
principal conductor  Arthur Fiedler. With "Syncopated Clock" in 1945  Anderson began  the period
of his greatest popularity. Fiedler introduced that piece  as well as standard Anderson works such
as "Fiddle-Faddle," "Sleigh Ride," and the Irish Suite of traditional tunes.

Anderson conducted his own orchestras during the 1950s in hit recordings such as "Blue Tango" &
"Plink, Plank Plunk" and "Belle of the Ball"." He used a typewriter a first as a musical instrument in
"The Typewriter" and he used sandpaper to imitate soft-shoe dancers in "Sandpaper Ballet".

His later projects included composing the music for Goldilocks, a 1958 Broadway musical. A survey
by the American Symphony Orchestra League in 1953 determined that among American composers,
Anderson's works were the most frequently performed.

Copyright 1994-1998 Encyclopaedia Britannica

Last Updated on 2019
By Steven Ritchie

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Thanks to George Pollen for the music below. Link to his webpage on my Bookmark page.

(2356)"Blue Tango". Sequenced by George Pollen.

(2349)"Belle of the ball". Sequenced by George Pollen.

(2302)"Serenata". Sequenced by George Pollen.

(2283)"Syncopated Clock". Sequenced by George Pollen.

(2282)"Forgotten Dreams". Sequenced by George Pollen.

(15)"Bugler's Holiday (Info by Stephen Lewis)". Sequenced by A.Simms.

(523)"Sleigh Ride". Sequenced by Passport Design Inc

(524)"The Typewriter". Sequenced by Donald

"Plink, Plank, Plunk". Sequencer unknown

(519)"Belle of the Ball". Sequencer unknown

(520)"Blue Tango". Sequencer unknown

(522)"Syncopated Clock". Sequencer unknown

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