Leroy Anderson ... piano, and came on up here to Wood bury, and during that first summer that we were here, I started "Fiddle Faddle", I didn't finish that until the following winter, and "Sleigh ...

Leroy Anderson once ... or a horse-drawn sleigh- it was never the sound effects of the high-concept central idea that animated the piece. Rather, Anderson's melodic genius and impeccable ...

Leroy Anderson, America's preeminent composer of light concert music, wrote such lively and evocative Pops orchestral favorites as "Sleigh Ride," "The ... eleven he began piano and music studies ...

As with all his other compositions, Leroy Anderson wrote The Typewriter for orchestra, completing the work on October 9, 1950. The Typewriter received its first performance when Leroy Anderson ...

In 1972 Leroy Anderson reviewed the musical history of ... We were down in Miami Beach a couple of years ago and he scheduled a Mozart piano concerto. The audience sat attentively through the ...

From 1950 to 1962 Leroy Anderson had a recording contract with Decca Records of New York City (not to be confused with the then Decca Records of England). Decca Records was one of the most popular ...