Leroy Anderson has written the finest compositions/melodies for simphony orchestra's,never surpassed by others. I enjoyed them in the 50s and they have set a stamp on my musical assessments for ever. Leroy Anderson taught us what music was and still IS,he was a true genius!
Have enjoyed LeRoy Anderson's music for years. First heard it at a private school I attended east of Escondido, California which I attended in my Sophmore and Junior years from 1956-1958. There was an outdoor skating rink that you had to climb up to which was on the southeast corner of the campus. I still remember the beautiful music over the speakers as the students would skate. In the late 1990's my wife and I were in a book store in Kennewick, Washington and I ran across a CD with his music on it. I bought it. I have put his music on my computer from the CD. He was a master of beautiful music. What a treasure.
Just came across your collection of Leroy Anderson's compositions. An amazingly well done tribute with excellent slideshows that perfectly accompany the music. Thanks for posting!
Gracias por este trabajo tan bello.Doy clases de expresión corporal a niñas de tres a seis años y a todas nos encanta y divierte Leroy Andersen!!!!!!!! Saludos desde Argentina.( el reloJ sincopado es uno de nuestros favoritos ;)
I didn't know his name, but Anderson's music was the first thing I heard when my father built a stereo from a kit in the mid-sixties ("My Fair Lady" soundtrack was second.). This series is magic with its intriguing pictures together with the music. It seems to me that the musical arrangements are so distinctive--were they Anderson's own?
Замечательная музыка!!! прекрасный видео-ряд!!! в гармонии не только глаза и уши,но и душа становится на место!!!туда,где ей и должно быть!!!ведь она так устала от кошмара и мракобесия действительности......
Someone else has also mentioned your excellent use of pictures, but let me also commend you for that. I look at old pictures and often wonder about the time after it was taken. How the subject went on his or her business in a World that no longer exists and which we "think" we know how it was. From L. P. Hartley, "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there".
.... and I thank you, Joseph, for your visit and taking the time to post a most interesting comment. I think photography is "my blood". My grandfather was a professional photographer and my father a keen amateur videographer. I have had a number of my own photographs exhibited and published both sides of the "pond"! I look at old photo portraits and often wonder what became of the sitter. How they lead their lives and were shaped and affected by world events.... whether it be war, revolution.......
If I didn't already say so, I vaguely recall this being at the beginning of an education-related TV program in early 1960s. If that was a local (as opposed to network) TV program, it would have been by way of Philadelphia because I was living near Wilmington, Del.
Used to perform a little "soft shoe" dance routine accompanied by this composition; would culminate the performance by deliberately feigning a slip and fall sequence! Had to cease the act when my rear-end became too sore get about comfortably.
Nigel Fowler Sutton Thank you. Yes. Vaudevillians, but who are they? Some of the faces are familiar and some are very intriguing. Is there a list you can post here?
The ones I can name are Jenny Lind, Rudolph Valentino, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilyard, Annette Hanshaw and Edgar Bergen.
I wonder how the idea for a 'sandpaper' ballet came about. (I'm aware the percussion sounds like sandpaper but ..sandpaper!) I've listened to this lots of times in my childhood but I don't remember the thought occuring to me.
Leroy Anderson intended it to be an orchestral work designed as a tribute to the soft-shoe style of dancing associated with vaudeville. "Dancers from that beloved entertainment genre of yesteryear often rubbed sheets of sandpaper together to create what they believed was the right rhythmic accompaniment to their soft-shoe routines".
If I didn't already say so: This is in my Music Selections pages on facebook account carl.moore.7792 , just like I have done with your Belle of the Ball link here on RU-vid.
