Leroy Anderson was born June 29, 1908 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His parents, as children, immigrated to the United States from Sweden with their families. His father, Bror Anton Anderson, worked as a postal clerk in the Central Square post office. He also played the mandolin. Anna Margareta Anderson, his mother, was the organist at the Swedish church in Cambridge. He lived in the suburbs of Boston for twenty seven years with his parents and brother.
Anderson had a very strong musical education. At age eleven he began piano lessons and music studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in Cambridge. At his high school graduation from the Cambridge High and Latin School, Anderson composed, orchestrated, and conducted his class song. In 1925 he entered Harvard College. While at Harvard he studied musical harmony with Walter Spalding, counterpoint with Edward Ballantine, canon and fugue with William C. Heilman, and orchestration with Edward B. Hill and Walter Piston. Between 1926 and 1929 he played trombone for the Harvard University Band. He eventually became the director of the Harvard University Band for four years. In 1929 Anderson received a B.A. magna cum laude in Music from Harvard. The magna cum laude is the next-to-highest of three special honors for grades above the average. He was also elected into Phi Beta Kappa. Anderson continued into graduate school at Harvard. In 1930, he earned an M.A. with a major in music. He began studying composition with Walter Piston and Georges Enesco; organ with Henry Gideon and double bass with Gaston Dufresne of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. As well as his studies in music, he continued for his PhD in German and Scandinavian languages. He ultimately mastered Danish, Norwegian, Icel...
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...ope, to show his children the many Scandinavian countries. He introduced them to the languages and cultures he learned during his time in school. Upon his return he guest conducted with the New Haven, New Britain, and Hartford Symphonies. Also, he worked on the boards of the New Haven and Hartford Symphonies. Anderson served as manager of the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra.
In 1971, he returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts to conduct the Cambridge High and Latin School orchestra, where he played in as a child. For his many years of hard work for the Boston Pops Orchestra, they paid him tribute in a concert, which was broadcast all over the nation. He appeared in the concert, where he was guest conducting his own songs. He continued to arrange and conduct music throughout the country for the rest of his life. Leroy Anderson died on May 18, 1975 in Woodbury, Connecticut.
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