Word: anderson
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Pictures of hockey players, Leroy Anderson, and a dog will line Lament walls today when the CRIMSON opens an exhibit of news photos and how they get into print...
...Leroy Anderson doesn't have time to play his trombone--or his tuba, double bass, organ or cello, for that matter--any more. But no one scems to mind. People who have heard "Wintergreen," "Fiddle-Faddle," or "Sleigh-Ride," are quite willing to settle for Anderson as a composer...
Born and brought up within walking distance of the Yard, and graduated from Cambridge High and Latin School, Anderson never had any doubt about which college he would attend. He entered Harvard in 1925. Since he had always been interested in music and had written his first composition at the age of 12, he majored in that subject...
...played string bass in the orchestra, becoming president of the Picrian Sodality in his senior year, and trombone in the Band, of which he was made conductor. These extra-curricular activities did not keep Anderson from being elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduating magna cum laude...
...Composing is all right," Anderson states, "but it has one drawback. It's hard to get started, and the composer has to eat in the meantime." This was one reason why, after completing one year of graduate work in music, and getting an A.M., he decided to switch to Scandinavian Languages, intending to become a teacher. During the next four years he tutored music at Radcliffe, played tuba and string bass in Boston-area orchestras, returned to the Band as director and arranger, and, of course, studied. "I even learned Icelandic," he says. It was in this period...