Once Upon a Sleigh Ride
DVD

One hour video documentary about the life and music of Leroy Anderson with two hours of rare bonus features.

Kultur International Films, 2006 product #D2140

Price: $20

This award-winning program is about Leroy Anderson, the composer of popular, light classical music such as Sleigh Ride, The Syncopated Clock and Bugler's Holiday. Since its release in 1999, the show has aired on PBS stations more than 1,200 times. The program features the Boston Pops Orchestra under the batons of Keith Lockhart, John Williams and the late Arthur Fiedler performing Anderson's music, along with interviews about the composer with colleagues, including actress Elaine Stritch, the late conductor Skitch Henderson, and choreographer Mark Morris, whose Sandpaper Ballet uses eleven Anderson works.

This DVD contains almost two hours of previously unreleased bonus material. There are two rare television programs about Anderson that have not been seen in over 30 years: a 1961 television program in which Anderson conducts the CBS Orchestra, and a 1970 televised interview show with Anderson at his Woodbury, Connecticut home playing piano and discussing his music. Russell Nype and Pat Stanley, who won Tony Awards for their performances as members of the original cast of Goldilocks, were interviewed in 2006 exclusively for this DVD.

Running Time: 198 minutes
Region Code: ALL
Picture Format: NTSC
Audio: Dolby 2.0
Color and Black & White

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