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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 ...
"Blue Tango" by Leroy Anderson, Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra. Arthur Fiedler: Ladies and Gentlemen, it's a great honor and pleasure for me to introduce a very good friend of ...
Leroy Anderson's original mono recording of Blue Tango was re-released in 1998. Lyrics were added by Mitchell Parish in 1952. It was re-recorded by the ...
Leroy Anderson on composing This is an excerpt from a 1947 letter that Leroy Anderson wrote. This was before he wrote "Sleigh Ride" and "Blue Tango" and achieved his world-wide level of recognition.
If you have fond memories of listening to songs such as "Blue Tango," "Syncopated Clock" and "Sleigh Ride," you'll enjoy the 3 p.m. concert Sunday at the Richter House in Danbury. Fiedler ...
Keyboard player Jelani Eddington has made special transcriptions of the popular orchestral music of Leroy Anderson in celebration of the composer's upcoming birth centenary on June 29. You can ...
Leroy Anderson Foundation. By Anthony Tommasini. April 22, 2020. ... Anderson certainly achieved success in his day, with hits like “Blue Tango, ...
Composer Leroy Anderson, with his wife, Eleanor, and their daughter, Jane. In 1945, while working in Army intelligence at the Pentagon and living with his family in Arlington, Va., Anderson ...
Leroy Anderson at Newton High School, Newtonville, Massachusetts, 1953: ... "Blue Tango" was just a melody that came up and it happened to be in tango, and ...
The following is an excerpt from the chapter, "Leroy Anderson" in Howard Pollack's book, "Harvard Composers: Walter Piston and His Students, from: Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski (Metuchen, N ...
In 1952, Billboard magazine named Anderson's instrumental "Blue Tango" as the year's top-selling single. It was both a parody of Latin torch songs and a passionate example of one at the same time.
American composer Leroy Anderson is perhaps best-known for the perrenial festive favourite, Sleigh Ride. ... The Syncopated Clock and Blue Tango.