Leroy Anderson collection

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Leroy Anderson collection

1953-1993

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou04106/catalog

Collection includes programs from Anderson's performances, circa 1953-1993; sheet music and scores for Anderson compositions, mostly 1950s; misc. records of Anderson pieces from the 1950s and 1960s.

1.5 linear feet

eng, Latn

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11624299

Houghton Library

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Anderson, Leroy, 1908-1975

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Leroy Anderson was born on June 29, 1908 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His family was musical, and as a boy he studied double bass, organ, and trombone. He continued his musical education at Harvard, where his teachers included Walter Piston and Georges Enesco; he graduated from college in 1929, and earned the M.A. in 1930. In the early 1930s he did additional graduate work in Scandinavian languages at Harvard; he also directed the Harvard Band and held numerous other musical jobs. I...