Composers Of The 21st Century

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Composers Of The 21st Century

• By the 4th and 5th Grade Students of Rogers
  Elementary School

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Leroy Anderson

• Birthdate
• June 29, 1908
• Birthplace
• Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Education
• B.A. (magna cum laude)
• M.A. in music at Harvard

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Facts about Leroy Anderson

• Director of Harvard University Band
• Served as a translator and interpreter in WWII
• Chief of the Scandinavian Desk of Military
  Intelligence
• Married Eleanor Firke in 1942
• Four Children
• Composer and Conductor until death in 1975

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Music by Leroy Anderson

• Sleigh Ride
• The Typewriter
• The Syncopated Clock