What are the works of American composer Anderson?

He studied at Harvard University in his early years and studied music under the famous composer Piston. 1930 is the conductor of the university orchestra. He was an arranger in Boston Pop Orchestra. He is good at creating light music band sketches with smooth and vivid melody and easy-to-understand content, which are deeply loved by the audience. It is manifested as Trumpet Festival, Typewriter Festival and Blue Tango Festival.

In people's habits, when we mention "great classical musicians", we always intuitively think that they are all people at least one or two hundred years ago, and they all come from Europe with "more culture and history". In fact, in the United States, where the history is not so "long", there are also many famous artists who perform well and deserve respect. Leroy anderson is one of the most representative. Maybe you don't know, in the Christmas season every year, we are bound to often hear "sleigh trip", which is his work.

Lerol Anderson, an excellent conductor himself, 1908 was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA on June 29th. His parents are Swedish immigrants, so not only Americans worship him, but even Swedes regard him as the glory of their country! He began to learn piano and composition when he was ten years old. At the age of eighteen, he entered the Music School of Harvard University and studied harmony, counterpoint and arrangement with many famous artists and professors. At the same time, he joined the school band and played trombone. After receiving his degree, he became the conductor and music director of Harvard University's band, and continued his studies. In addition to music courses, he also studied hard the languages of Germany and Nordic countries. The tireless learning spirit is admirable. During his tenure as music director of Harvard Band, he also arranged music, and even wrote "Harvard Fantasia" at 1935, which is well-known and is still often used as a performance track by Harvard Band.

Because of his outstanding performance, Boston Symphony Orchestra's agent specially invited him to arrange music for Boston Public Orchestra at 1936, which was praised by arthur fideler, the music director and conductor of the orchestra, and encouraged him to take this opportunity to publish his original works. So he took out his own composition "Jazz Pimple: Jazz Legato", which really caused a sensation in 1938 and became his famous song. This also enabled him to establish a deep relationship with the Boston Public Orchestra, and he often published his works through the orchestra. This piece describes the dance rhythm of jazz. When we watch jazz performances, we often see the cello plucking the strings and making a deep digital bass, which is the plucking of the strings in jazz style. As for the playing method of glide, it was originally one of the playing techniques together with plucking the strings. But under the creative guidance of Anderson, children can understand these two different techniques, and at the same time let everyone know about jazz which has a deep influence on American music.

1942, World War II broke out, and Anderson joined the army and was stationed in Iceland. Because he is proficient in the languages of the Nordic countries, he was appointed as the chief translator of the US military in Scandinavia. Until 1946, he returned from the army and was hired as a professional arranger for the Boston Public Orchestra. Before retiring from the army, the chief trumpeter of the Boston Pop Orchestra asked him to help write a tune, which was played gently by the trumpet. Anderson had a brainwave and wrote a lullaby for the trumpeter to put people to sleep. It is gentle and touching, and once again it is loved by the general public.

1947, Anderson published "Viola -Faddle", which was composed with strings as the main axis and the popular continuous rhythm at that time. The melody implies the style of American western folk songs, and through the rapid performance of the violin, it presents the lively scene of people arranging banquets in the wild in the history of American western frontier. 1948 published Happy Sled. In fact, this song was not written for Christmas, but in the hottest July, just because he said it was his fantasy of winter scenes. Later, someone wrote lyrics for this song at 1950, which became a classic of Christmas songs. That year, he finished another work with a completely different style, The Waltz Cat. Anderson has a cat, which inspired his creation. He used this piece of music to describe the kitten's coquetry, posturing and elegant behavior. From time to time, he made a pleasing "Mimi" cry and imitated the cat's voice with the high-pitched part of the violin. It was vivid and lifelike, which made people feel that the cat was like a lady who danced a waltz at a party. It was very cute.