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 ...

In 1972 Leroy Anderson appeared as a guest on the PBS program Evening at Pops. This nationally broadcast program gave Anderson's music additional exposure and once again put the composer in the ...

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 composer in analog stereo sound on May 26, 1959.

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.

After that, Anderson conducted the premieres of his works when he recorded them for Decca Records. It was his recording of "Blue Tango" that made it to No. 1 on the Hit Parade of 1952.

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 ...

Anderson certainly achieved success in his day, with hits like “Blue Tango,” which went to the top of the Billboard charts, and the enduring holiday favorite “Sleigh Ride,” first ...

Leroy Anderson's "The Syncopated Clock" struck a chord with audiences.

High School Students Ask Leroy Anderson... Leroy Anderson enjoyed conducting his music with all sizes of orchestras, from the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra to high school orchestras.

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.