Leroy Anderson was interviewed in the 1960's by Dick Bertel of WTIC Radio, Hartford, Connecticut. Q. Let's start off with a question about Christmas music. What is Christmas music in general?

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".

As with all his other compositions, Leroy Anderson wrote The Typewriter for ... for a Decca Records recording session on September 8, 1953. Mills Music published the orchestral version in 1953.

wrote of his wish to present in Boston "concerts of a lighter kind of music." The first Boston Pops concert in 1885 represented the fulfillment of his dream. In 1972 Leroy Anderson reviewed the ...