Composer Leroy Anderson, with his wife, Eleanor, and their daughter, Jane. In 1945, while working in Army intelligence at the Pentagon and living with his family in Arlington, Va., Anderson ...

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".

Leroy Anderson's youngest son, Kurt Anderson, notes that " Leroy Anderson's place in musical history is special. His music is spirited and manages to capture a liveliness that many people enjoy ...