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G u e s t b o o k 1999
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Guestbook entries for the year 1999 are published below: |
| I've been looking for a midi recording of "Sleigh Ride" Forever. My girlfriend loves this peice. I Just Finished a concert where we played "A Christmas Festival. Shane Micheal Olson <mailto:buggin_6_9_@hotmail.com or kingof_scots@mailcity.com> Maple Ridge, Canada - Sunday, December 26, 1999 at 17:37:27 (EST)
My dad Maynard, who passed away in June 1998,
was a Harvard College classmate of Mr Anderson, class of 1929. They
grew up together and attended Cambridge Latin School as classmates.
My dad had fond memories of Mr Anderson and loved his music.
I'd like the life and music of Leroy Anderson
depicted in a movie, either in the theatre, video or television. I have
been a great fan of Leroy Anderson for about 40 years.
I'd like to see a movie made about the life
and music of Leroy Anderson, either in the theatre, video or on television.
He has been one of my favourites of music.
I'm doing my composer report for a 4th grade
music project. This was very helpful. Thank you.
I am trying to find a recording of Sleigh Ride.
I am trying to track down any CD of Leroy Anderson's
work for my sister. I would appreciate an address or phone number for
a place where his recordings may be purchased. An excellent site...!
I only recently discovered that so many songs
that I remember from my youth (sleigh ride, blue tango, syncopated clock)
were all composed by Leroy Anderson. I would love to know where I can
purchase a cd of Christmas songs composed by this great artist (and
any other cds available). At the age of 50, I have become a huge fan
and look forward to sharing Mr. Andersons music with friends and family.
My children, aged 7 and 11 are constantly singing
the tune to the latest GAP Clothing tv-advert over here. They think
it is a new tune. Ha! But which orchestra is playing Sleigh Ride on
the ad?
We honor Mr. Anderson's music every year with
a great performance of A Christmas Festival. We have also performed
some of his other works. A Great Man!!
I am a Canadian citizen! I love Leory Anderson
more than ever and his music fascinates me very much! Some of my favorite
pieces are CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL OVERTURE, the piece I LOVE the best of
a fantasia of well-known Christmas carols and songs that is a popular
favorite played of every community, school and major orchestras that
is an appropriate way to celebrate Christmas that is a holiday to be
joyful and festive! This composition is an appropriate way to remember
Leory Andereson who is remembered as a great composer! I also like his
THE TYPEWRITER, BLUE TANGO and many other of his fine compsotions. Along
with Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak,
Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Donuizetti, Berlioz, Bizet, Lehar, Johann Strauss
Junior, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Bruckner, Rimsky-Korsakov, Debussy, Gershwin,
Holst, Deius, Britten, Vaughan Williams, Copland, Leonard Bernstein,
Prokofiev, Shosatkovich and Hindemith which are some of my many favorite
composers, Leory Anderson joins the list because he did a great job
in promoting American music that was played with the Boston Pops especially
under the years of the legendary Arthur Fielder, one of my favorite conductors.
Leroy Anderson deserves my respect!
As a sixteen-year-old in Montreal during 1952,
I was crazy enough about "BLUE TANGO" that I had seven copies of the
78rpm record so it would repeat over and over before needing to be re-stacked.
Many decades have passed and I still thrill to his music. We acknowledge
his birthday and "yartzheit" [anniversary of his passing] along with
the dates of my favorite composers..Beethoven; Rimsky-Korsakov; Rachmaninoff
and Tchaikovsky, by playing their music on those dates. GREATNESS RULES!!!
Have always loved Leroy Anderson's music, from
the age of four when I was taking ballet lessons. My teacher Miss Lillian
Mae Marsh used a great deal of his music.
Leroy Anderson was a fantastic composer of
great American music. His works such as "Sleigh Ride", "Trumpeter's
Lullaby" (my favorite), and "The Blue Tango" all possess a charming
and witty musical color. His ablilty to write different kinds of music
such as his waltzes, his "Irish Suite", and his many other catchy tunes,
make him a true American musical symbol. We are performing Sleigh Ride
in our High School Christmas Concert, It'll be a great note to end on!
I am a violist and orchestra director in Western
PA. We are performing Sleigh Ride next week. Thanks for the program
notes. We hope to play Plink Plank Plunk in the spring. Well done site.
This is a very nice page and it has a lot of
useful information. I play trumpet in my schools Wind Ensamble (Honors
Band), and we are playing Sleigh Ride in our upcoming winter concert.
It is a fun piece to play because it is very lively and energetic.
I was just wondering where I might be able
to find a copy of the CD or cassette of Christmas Carols by Leroy Anderson.
My mother had the original album, which was put out by Decca records.
Unfortunately the Decca record company no longer exists and we are left
wondering where we can get a copy of this on CD or cassette. This was
a wonderful album and it helps my Mom and her sister and brother to
remember what Christmas was like when they were little. If you could
help us out we would greatly appreciate it. Thank You! Sarah
The christmas season is here and you wouldn't
believe how happy I was when the _original_ concert band version of
"Sleigh Ride" was put infront of us! I'm glad to be playing it.
Very Nice
What a wonderful master pieces created by Leroy
Anderson. I knew him for only 5 years. His music got into my life accidently
when I come accross the cute title of the CD call "Typewriter" at the
classical section and I tried it. This caused me falling in love deeply
in his music and never get out. Horray to Mr. Anderson
Is Carl Viegland, author of "AN APPRECIATION",
son of Hans Viegland of Buffalo, NY?
This is a really good research cite. Thanks!!
Leroy Anderson's music is the first music I
can remember hearing as a child. I was born in Israel and every day
at noon "The Typewriter" would open the mid day news edition on the
radio. This music is a life inspiration. At the age of 35 I am returning
to piano and music studies. Thank you Leroy.
A great site! I love Leroy Anderson music!
Keep up the good work!
I have loved his music since I was a child.
His songs have great hummability.
As a child of the 50's, I heard somethig magical
in his recordings, and still do.
Thanks I do believe I have played all ? whilst
a serving member of HM Royal Marines Band, Del Segno,
Will somebody tell the USPS to get on the ball
with that postage stamp?? It's about time... Love the work, love the
site, give us more... caught part of the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
on public radio a week or so ago and was delighted. Would like to track
down a recording.
Aloha!! Just tried to order "Lullaby of the
Drum" from Warner Bros. and they said it was "out of print". Have any
band directors been able to locate this piece? We perform his music
all the time in the Royal Hawaiian Band but I have never heard this
rare piece. Can anyone help? Nice to see so many wonderful comments
here in the guestbook!
I'm so glad I found this site! I'm preparing
lessons to teach his wonderful music to my 1st graders! I first remember
hearing his music when I was little and have loved it ever since. Thank
you for sharing this info with us.
I love Leroy Anderson. I have not seen in your
discography the Decca phase4 edition. Is not there in CD? Thank you
Giuseppe Gobbetti
Famaliar with Leroy Anderson since 1960's early.
My father introduce me to his music, father was musician (as hobby),
made and played violins, cellos, vioas, etc. Classical/Big Band influenced
also played flute, piccolo, trumpet. Always enjoyed tight, crisp edged
dynamics that Mr. Anderson has given. Looking forward in getting his
CD. Mr. Anderson was that rare musician that can say musically in seconds
that others take minutes and doesn't redunt or overdraw the music passage.
Not easily emulated.
This is a wonderful site. I was searching for
information about Leroy Anderson who will be a composer of the month
in my classroom. The information contained here will be a wonderful
addition to our study of great composers. My students have already enjoyed
movement exercises to several of his pieces. Thanks!
This is a wonderful site. I was searching for
information about Leroy Anderson who will be a composer of the month
in my classroom. The information contained here will be a wonderful
addition to our study of great composers. My students have already enjoyed
movement exercises to several of his pieces. Thanks!
I first heard about Leroy Anderson when I played
an easy version of "Trumpeter' Lullaby" for a Solo Festival in fifth
grade. Ever since then, I've loved all his works.
Aha! Finally I find some cool info about Leroy
Anderson. I see lots of folks here have signed the guestbook and mentioned
his mainstay "fun" works. But do you all know about his one rather serious/comprehensive
orchestral work? I managed to get my hands on a World Premiere Recording
of "Concierto in C Major for Piano and Orchestra", which he released
briefly in the mid-50's and withdrew soon thereafter (dissatisfied as
to its quality). Well guess what? It's absolutely wonderful -- I play
it all the time as background music as I work, as I drive, and even
as I recline in my dark living room after a truly grueling workday.
If you can manage to find a copy, please grab it and give this fine
piece a listen. It has to grow on you, by the way, so don't go with
your first impression. Listen to it a few times; I guarantee, it'll
grow into a fond addiction. The intricate piano-work and pleasant musical
patterns will prove quite enjoyable -- I guarantee it!
Ta, thanks for the information, really helpful
It is very nice to see a site dedicated to
Mr. Anderson. His music, A Trumpetter's Lullaby has become a standard
trumpet solo in wind/concert band repetoires. It also happens to be
my favourite. Blue Tango is one that I have reccently discovered, which
reminds me so much of Lullaby, (maybe it's the chord-progressions).
I am a young musician and inspiring composer. I play Clarinet in a local
community concert band. I am proud to consider Leroy Anderson as one
of my musical inspirations.
big fan. no posthumus honor too great. can
he be made Pope retroactively? keep me posted, please, on all memorial
developments.
I grew up in the Philadelphia, PA, area in
the 1960's and while I didn't realize it, I was "exposed" to LA's music
via the local TV of that era. "The Syncopated Clock" was the theme for
"The Early Show" on our CBS affiliate. "Bugler's Holiday" was the theme
for a live morning kids program hosted by "Wee Willie Web(b)er" on the
ABC affilate, I think. Much later, in between HS & college (summer
of 1970), I met at work a classical music enthusiast. It was interesting
that he had heard LA's music but had never heard OF him. I happily shared
my LA LPs with him.
For me, Amdrson's music was the best stepping
stone to classical music I ever encountered and I never tire of it.
Ich habe mich sehr gefreut eine Homepage von
Leroy Anderson zu finden. Ich habe schone viele Werke von ihm mit meinen
Orchestern (Band und Akkordeon-Orchestra) aufgeführt. Ich suche noch
die Original-Partituren der Stücke Jazz-Pizzicato und Jazz-Legato; vielleicht
kann mir jemand helfen???
I write notes for both the Queens Symphonic
Band and the Band of Long Island, and it's amazingly hard to find information
on Leroy Anderson; the standard references, quite wrongly, pass right
over him. Thanks for a very helpful site!
I've always enjoyed Leroy Anderson music, and
in my collection of player piano rolls I have two rolls, Sleigh Ride,
put out by QRS, and Fiddle Faddle put out by Duo-Art.I'd love to know
if any other pieces by Leroy Anderson have been recorded on piano roll,
especially Duo-Art. Thanks
Why is Leroy Anderson so underappreciated as
composer or conductor? I subscribed to the Time-Life Instrumental series
of recordings, and the only Anderson works were found on the Arthur
Fiedler set. They should have been on their own. I knew his work when
I was a kid. I suppose "The Typewriter" was the first tone poem I learned.
(My mother had a recording from when she was younger; we used to listen
to popular music on WPAT and WQXR in New York.) Last week the Woburn
(Massachusetts) City Band played some of his works. There was an implication
that he was connected to Woburn in particular, or maybe I misheard his
general connection to greater Boston.
I heard the tunes of Leroy Anderson in my early
years, when I was young german boy after the World War II. The German
radio stations used to play all the American popular music, which was
ignored by the Nazis. Andersons tunes were on air nearly daily. There
was a program named "Mit Musik geht alles besser", especially made for
housewifes doing her homework, every morning from 9 to 11. "Typewriter",
"Blue Tango", "Bugler´s Holiday" and all the other tunes reached my
ears eagerly hearing everything new. Now I´m a musician too and still
love these wonderful pieces, each of them a unique event. Thank you,
Amarica! Reinmar Wipper Nürtingen Germany
I am the program director for a public radio
station in Pittsburg Kansas and we are going to be airing a special
on Leroy Anderson. We are thrilled to be sharing his music with our
listeners. Sincerely, Bobbie Barajas
I am the program director for a public radio
station in Pittsburg Kansas and we are going to be airing a special
on Leroy Anderson. We are thrilled to be sharing his music with our
listener. Sincerely, Bobbie Barajas
For the past 75 years our local city band,
Oconomowoc American Legion Band has always played some selections throughout
our 10 concert summer series. This year is no exception! I am the assistant
conductor and mychosen theme concert this year is a salute to Leroy
Anderson. This concert also features the local nursing home bringing
5 patooin boats and 3 buses of their residents to this concert on July
28th, 1999. This is there big summer outing and I thought they would
truely enjoy his music and it would bring back memories for them. We
are even planning to included Santa Claus to the evening during the
playing of Sleigh Ride and Christmas Festival!! It should be a super
night of fun, if it doesn't rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leroy Anderson's music was standard for the
High School band where my wife to be and I played the french horn together.
Thanks for the web page.
I love Leroy Anderson's music. Where can I
get a CD collection of his work?
Does anyone know if Leroy Anderson¹s guest
appearance on the Boston Pops in 1971(?)1972(?) is available on video
cassette?
At Kingsborough Community College we're about
to begin the Silver Anniversary Season of our summer concert series
with concert band "Music Under The Stars", and L.A. is generously programmed,
including "Irish Suite" "serenata" and "Belle". I'm researching "Typewriter"
for my appearance as typist on 7/10, as part of our "Hooray for Hollywood"
program, as a salute to the screenwriters. I'll perform on my grandpa's
Royal Silent (!) Deluxe portable, which peaked in popularity during
the decade following the premiere of L.A.'s magical monument to the
mechanical marvel. During the fabulous 50s the office machine industry
owed a huge debt to the comedic composer from Connecticut!! ecs
I have just recently become a fan of Leroy
Anderon's Piano Concerto in C Major. I listen to it and am able to laugh
and cry at the same time. My dream is to one day be able to play this
beautiful music with the same passion which Anderson wrote with. It
is wonderful to see music so alive in the world!!
Just found the note for this web-site in the
booklet of "Sleigh Ride" CD. I had the opportunity to see the Malmoe
Symphony Orchestra here in southern Sweden, perform a complete concert
of Leroy Anderson music a few years ago. Then I found a 1957 LP by Royal
Farnsworth Symphony Pops Orchestra, and last year this excellent CD
in Chicago. I sure will search for more... Is there any Leroy Andersson
radio shows in MP3 format?
Greetings from Northern Europe. Nice to see
that there are so many Leroy Anderson music lovers. I bought my first
Leroy Anderson LP by age of 16. Ever since I have spent numerous of
brilliant moments by listening his music. It's perfect and that`s all
I can say. You all could be my pals.
We played a good number of Leroy Anderson light
orchestral pieces when I was Principal Percussionist for the county
orchestra, I thought they were enchanting, especially the percussion
features (Sandpaper Ballet, Syncopated Clock, Typewriter Song etc.)
This site is really great, and reflects the true genius that was Leroy
Anderson. Stay happy!
Hello. I am a pianist and got to play a piano
arrangement of Fiddle Faddle last year at my yearly recital. Later on
that year I had they pleasure of hearing the Mid Texas Symphony perform
Fiddle Faddle and loved it! Anderson was truly a great American composer
and his pieces are fun to listen to and play. Cool site, and a nice
tribute to the man behind it all!
I never knew what Leyroy Anderson had written
beside Sleigh Ride. Recently, I was sent a CD of his works and I was
delighted. When I heard the Syncopated Clock I was reminded of WCBS
telivision in New York using it as the theme of their Late Show.
I caught "Fiddle Faddle" on some obscure college
radio station and am now hooked on Leroy Anderson. It pays to stray
outside one's normal musical boundaries From time to time.
I was part of AOSFB and fell in love with playing
Anderson's Belle of The Ball ... it was in my friends' and mine head
for the whole 3 weeks we were down there! Thank you for making those
years so memorable...
My family always listened to the Boston Pops
concerts that were broadcast on KFAC in Los Angeles on Sundays. I grew
up listening to Leroy Anderson's music. Last Sunday, I put on a tape
of Fiedler and The Pops playing Anderson's Greatest Hits...nice and
loud. My children loved the music, as did my wife. I was overcome by
nostalgia, and with love for this great music. Thank you for this web
site, so easy to find and so nicely laid out.
By obtaining this new CD I have found the 'sounds'
of my youth again. Leroy Anderson was in the family I grew up in in
someway always around. I am now 50 years old en when I am listening
to his wonderful music I am really back 'home' again. It represents
to me the sound of 'quality', 'values' and 'decorum'. It was certainly
another time and in a lot of ways I wished we were back there again.
What I miss most in this time is the lack of respect I sense these days.
Mr. Leroy Anderson and his orchestra gave me back a little bit of the
feeling of this era. I am grateful for that! Peter Muller.
The site is great, but I came to it because
I am looking for Realaudio clips for my students. Yours do not seem
to be working. All I get is gibberish on the screen when I select a
title.
My wife recently received a CD of Leroy Anderson's
songs from the Musical Heritage Society. While many of the songs were
familiar to us, for the first time we can credit them all to Leroy Anderson!
And as a long time Jerry Lewis fan, it's great to be able to know who
wrote the "Typewriter Song." Leroy Anderson deserves to be continually
honored for his great music and significant contribution of a major
piece of Americana.
I discovered Leroy Anderson's music on a St.
Louis station, KFUO. So beautiful !!!! I enjoy a wide range of music
and his is timeless. Cool site!
Hi, my name is Bert, and I really like Leroy
Anderosn, his music is thrilling and inventive. I'm 15 and we played
Sleigh Ride and The Phantom Regiment in school, and I was just looking
around on the internet and I found this site. I think its really cool,
and I love the Phantom Regiment. In fact it is my favorite song. I hope
you keep this page up. Thanks a lot.
It thrills me to no end to see so many Leroy
Anderson fans! I fell in love with his music as a kid, never knowing
that all these wonderful tunes I enjoyed were written by the same man.
By the time I reached high school, I set out to find who wrote "Sleigh
Ride." After a great deal of searching, I discovered the name Leroy
Anderson, and soon after that I purchased the Boston Pops' "Leroy Anderson's
Greatest Hits" album. I was floored to find out that all these marvelous
tunes were his. As a true fanatic, I spent many a day tracking down
all the albums I could find. Guiltily, I admit I have been known to
cajole musician friends to include his work in their concerts (including
Chicago's Ravinia Festival a couple of years ago). Lucky for me, one
day long ago, I wrote to Mr. Anderson to tell him of my enthusiasm.
He replied with a very charming letter. This turned out to be just four
months before his death. He was truly an American original and I am
so glad his music lives on to delight others.
Finding this marvelous meeting of fellow Leroy
Anderson addicts is sheer joy, LA Anonymous anyone? Some years ago I
purchased a generous supply of The Leroy Anderson Collection, a two
disc collection with each CD having more than twenty cuts, MCA Classics
MCAD2-99815. MCA knew it had a good thing going charging only about
$12.00 for the set that has now been deleted from the catalog and replaced
by a more expensive version with less music. MCA -- ARE YOU LISTENING??
Please restore The Leroy Anderson Collection, MCAD2-99815. That set
will have greater appeal to more consumers, with improved sales for
you! We addicts need our FIX!
I never knew there were so many Leroy Anderson
fans! It sounds as though most of us who are musicians have a special
affinity for his music. I have been playing trumpet and cornet since
6th grade and was first attracted to Mr. Anderson's music when I played
Bugler's Holiday in a trumpet trio in high school. It's never tiring
to hear his music again and again. There's really nothing like a Leroy
Anderson piece, is there? His songs so unique that I can't help but
wonder what he was like in person -- anyone who could write Sandpaper
Ballet has got to be an interesting person! Thanks for an entertaining
site devoted to an entertaining composer.
There are a million songs I love and I would
never dare to label any one in particular as my favorite. Point a gun
at my head however, and I would probably say "Sleigh Ride" , the song
I've hummed or whistled probably on a daily basis ever since I heard
it as a six-year-old boy growing up in Amsterdam. I went on to become
a musician myself and was lucky enought to compose my own U.S.Hit in
1981. When I recorded the second album with my rockband Diesel, I decided
to add a few bars of "Sleigh Ride" to one of the songs and it was only
then I found out Leroy Anderson was its composer. It took another ten
years before I found a Leroy Anderson CD and, to my astonishment, discovered
that nearly all those magical tunes from my childhood-days had been
composed by one and the same person. Though his name might not ring
as familiar as Cole Porter's or Irving Berlin's, Leroy Anderson is,
in my book, the ultimate American composer. His songs are a gift that
will keep on giving.
I have discovered Leroy Anderson through many
people the magic of Leroy Anderson's misic...I am in high school and
am playing a ensamble of his(Bugler's Holiday)...I hope this web sitehelps
others to come to know his music...
I too accidently discovered Leroy Anderson's
music and am so glad I did. I even found out the Blue Tango, I played
in Junior high school was composed my Leroy Anderson. I am only about
40 years late in finding out. God bless his music.
It is truly amazing to see that such a man
could accomplish so much in his lifetime. Leroy Anderson was clearly
a distinguished individual who knew what he wanted to do, and fulfilled
his goals successfully. As a friend of his family, it is quite clear
to me that his descendants will carry out the traditions he brought
into this world.
I've been lucky to tell Mrs. Eleanor Anderson¨on
the phone a couple of years ago: the music of Leroy Anderson was an
important part of my musical education. Years at the Music Academy in
Norway could hardly compete with the impress I got from the broadcasting
of his tunes. His way of arranging, his melodifealing and his rythmic
elegance was what I learned and had to put against rigid rules and thinking
in a classic academy invironment. In my job as a music teacher in the
school here in Norway I have a lot of more thnakfulness to send to Leroy
Anderson and other "light" composers than .........you know! So to his
family: thank you so much! And the others....believe my words. |