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Arthur Fiedler
Arthur Fiedler
American conductor
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Lillian Fuchs
Lillian Fuchs
American musician
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Guy Lombardo
Guy Lombardo
Canadian-American bandleader
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Boston Pops Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts
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Carlos Chávez
Carlos Chávez
Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (1899-1978)
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Irving Fine
Irving Fine
American composer
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Earl Grant
Earl Grant
American musician
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Stanley Black
Stanley Black
British composer
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Claus Ogerman
Claus Ogerman
German composer
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Bill Anderson
Bill Anderson
American country music singer and songwriter
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Duke Jordan
Duke Jordan
American musician
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Jeri Southern
Jeri Southern
American singer
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Aaron Bell
Aaron Bell
American musician
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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
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Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
German composer
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Robert Ward
Robert Ward
American composer
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Danny Cedrone
Danny Cedrone
American guitarist and bandleader
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Sy Oliver
Sy Oliver
American jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer, singer and bandleader
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Bill Doggett
Bill Doggett
American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist
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Peter DeRose
Peter DeRose
American composer of jazz and pop music during the era of Tin Pan Alley
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Edmundo Ros
Edmundo Ros
Trinidadian-British musician, vocalist, arranger and bandleader
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Count Basie
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Spike Hughes
Spike Hughes
Composer, Author, Music Critic
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Ethel Smith
Ethel Smith
American organist
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Alan Hovhaness
Alan Hovhaness
Armenian-American composer
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Irving Fields
Irving Fields
American cocktail pianist famous for fusion of Latin and Jewish music
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Camargo Guarnieri
Camargo Guarnieri
Brazilian composer
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Gerald Wilson
Gerald Wilson
American trumpetist (1918-2014)
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Samuel Barber
Samuel Barber
American composer (1910-1981)
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Al Cohn
Al Cohn
American saxophonist
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Ferde Grofé
Ferde Grofé
American composer, arranger, pianist and instrumentalist
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Count Basie Orchestra
Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
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Alan Shulman
Alan Shulman
American composer and cellist
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Yasushi Akutagawa
Yasushi Akutagawa
Japanese composer (1925-1989)
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Bert Kaempfert
Bert Kaempfert
German orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger and composer (1923-1980)
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Franz Waxman
Franz Waxman
German film composer (1906-1967)
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Paul Whiteman
Paul Whiteman
American jazz musician and radio personality
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Moon Mullican
Moon Mullican
American recording artist; country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist
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Jimmie Lunceford
Jimmie Lunceford
American musician
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Eddie Beal
Eddie Beal
American musician
Leroy Anderson
American composer (1908-1975)

Leroy Anderson

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American composer (1908-1975)
Record Labels
Awards Received
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Member of, past and present
Phi Beta Kappa Society

Phi Beta Kappa Society

Leroy Anderson (/ləˈrɔɪ/ lə-ROY) (June 29, 1908 – May 18, 1975) was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, of which many were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler. John Williams described him as "one of the great American masters of light orchestral music."