Leroy Anderson, America's preeminent composer of light concert music, wrote such lively and evocative Pops orchestral favorites as "Sleigh Ride," "The Syncopated Clock" and "Blue Tango". His music ...

Leroy Anderson: Master of the Miniature The Boston-based composer is remembered, 100 years after his birth, for a string of three-minute pops-concert classics such as "Sleigh Ride," "The ...

Leroy Anderson enjoyed conducting his music with all sizes of orchestras, from the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra to high school orchestras. In 1953 Leroy Anderson was asked to conduct his music and ...

American composer Leroy Anderson is perhaps best-known for the perrenial festive favourite, Sleigh Ride. He has also entered the collective pop culture consciousness for other delightful ...

But trust me: Leroy Anderson will make you feel better about things. And “The Syncopated Clock,” written in 1945, is a two-and-a-half-minute masterpiece. I hear the music as expressing a ...

December is turning out to be a hot month for Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride." His classic tune was named the No. 1 Holiday Song by ASCAP this month. ASCAP is the American Society of Composers ...

Frederick Fennell, founder of the Eastman Wind Ensemble and long time conductor of the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, shares these insights into the music of Leroy Anderson. Music by Leroy Anderson ...

Since the state of California expressly forbids playing or writing about "Sleighride" after December 31st, while we still have time, here's Craig Curtis's report on its composer, Leroy Anderson ...