Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1945, a 36-year-old composer who was serving in the Army was invited to conduct the Boston Pops. He decided to write some music ...

This is an excerpt from a 1947 letter that Leroy Anderson wrote. This was before he wrote "Sleigh Ride" and "Blue Tango" and achieved his world-wide level of recognition. Origin of ideas --- Musical ...

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 composed ...