This being the holiday season, it would be nice to look back and report that composer Leroy Anderson featured his popular Christmas song “Sleigh Ride” when he conducted the Rochester Symphony ...

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? What ...

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 ...

When it comes to holiday music, we like what we like. Maybe it’s nostalgia. Maybe we like a song because it’s a tune we played in high school band or sang every year in the holiday pageant. Maybe it’s ...

A decade later, Ella Fitzgerald recorded her own version in 1960, further cementing the song’s place in the popular ...