Leroy Anderson in Concert: Leroy Anderson conducts and introduces his music from a concert with the U.S. Air Force Band - available from Walking Frog Records at 1-888-673-4718 or walkingfrog.com.

This ultra-percussive rendition of Leroy Anderson’s light orchestra standard is just magical. After Anderson composed it in 1948, Sleigh Ride quickly became a standard for light orchestral music.

No, this is a song about a sleigh ride: of eating pumpkin pie with pals, of feeling warm despite the cold. “Sleigh Ride,” originally conceived by Leroy Anderson, doesn’t want to make you ...