ANDERSON, LEROY (1908 - 1975)
The world-famous creator of the Christmas standard Sleigh Ride, Leroy Anderson was the
eclectic assimilator of many diverse styles. Far from being a frivolous 'pops' musician, he
was an outstandingly talented music student, studying at Harvard under George Enesco and
Walter Piston among...
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The world-famous creator of the Christmas standard Sleigh Ride, Leroy Anderson was the
eclectic assimilator of many diverse styles. Far from being a frivolous 'pops' musician, he
was an outstandingly talented music student, studying at Harvard under George Enesco and
Walter Piston among others. After working as a freelance organist and conductor in and
around the Boston area, he left academia in 1936 to arrange for Arthur Fiedler's Boston
Pops Orchestra, then in 1938 he started to compose his own works. Anderson was the first
composer to sell over a million copies of a purely instrumental work with his Blue Tango
(1953). The Syncopated Clock, written seven years earlier, had been his first golden disc
and US charted hit (it reached No. 11 in 1951 for Anderson's own 'Pops' Concert
Orchestra).
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