Leroy Anderson News

Meredith- The Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra invites you to join them for two spectacular Holiday Concerts on Saturday December 13th at 7:30 pm, and Sunday December 14th at 3:00 pm.

Best remembered for "The Syncopated Clock" and the holiday classic "Sleigh Ride," Leroy Anderson was one of America's most popular composers of light, melodic orchestral music.

Barely 30 years old and much like other gifted pianists his age, Toronto native Stewart Goodyear has shown promise as a conduit for the early Romantic repertoire all the way up through the Modern age.

MANSFIELD -- Two great American originals, George Gershwin and Leroy Anderson, will be saluted Saturday at the first pops concert of the Mansfield Symphony's 2008-2009 season.

This year marks the centenary of Leroy Anderson, composer of "The Syncopated Clock" and other Fiedler-era Pops favorites.

This week our classical music reviewer Geoff Adams listens to Nigel Kennedy performing Beethoven, Leroy Anderson and DOnizetti, and takes a look at a performance of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni on DVD.

The New Horizons Band of Western New York will present a free summer concert at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Barker Common Gazebo in Fredonia.

'Plink, Plank, Plunk!?' Could it be yet another composer of random notes and sounds? Far from it.

"Waltz and schmaltz." That's what members of the Minnesota Orchestra call their signature Sommerfest concert of Johann Strauss and his ilk.

"Waltz and schmaltz." That's what members of the Minnesota Orchestra call their signature Sommerfest concert of Johann Strauss and his ilk.

Font Is June 29th your birthday ? Was someone special to you born on June 29th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion ? If today is your birthday , then you are in excellent company.

Although the American composer Leroy Anderson is best known for his novelty music, such as 'The Typewriter', 'The Syncopated Clock' and 'Sleigh Ride' , he was also a prodigious composer and arranger of more ...

Leroy Anderson built a career by composing sophisticated short works for orchestra such as "Sleigh Ride" and "The Typewriter." Courtesy of the artist Leroy Anderson conducts the orchestra in a recording session ...

Today is Sunday, June 29, the 181st day of 2008. There are 185 days left in the year.

"We just thought of him as our dad, but when we would travel places I was always surprised to see that people recognized him," said Rolf Anderson, son of renowned composer and resident Leroy Anderson.

Anderson, who died in 1975, is probably best-known today for Sleigh Ride , which is heard in any number of versions at Christmastime.

Today is Sunday, June 29, the 181st day of 2008. There are 185 days left in the year.

The season-ending concert Monday night of the Ontario/Chaffey Community Show Band will be a tribute to composer LeRoy Anderson.

The Fond du Lac Symphonic Band will open its 20th season at the Buttermilk Performance Center in Fond du Lac with a concert at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, June 18.

The Orcas Community Band, made up of 40 musicians ranging in ages from 15 to 88 "isn't just a bunch of funky-sounding, old white-haired people, but an exhilarating, fun-filled and very musically competent ...