London Pops Orchestra

Frederick Fennell, Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestra, London Pops Orchestra – Frederick Fennell Conducts The Music Of Leroy Anderson (1958/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:02 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

‘Sentimentality, romance, and a sense of humor–all of these things characterized Leroy Anderson’s music, attributes that somehow went missing from much of American classical symphonic repertoire during the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s (except for Bernstein and a few others). And although there’s always an important and enduring place for the more profound, timeless works, there’s also one for music that immediately recalls the sound and sensibility of a period and effectively captures its popular mood. Anderson’s music did exactly that, and if you don’t respond with smiles and toe-tapping enthusiasm when you hear Horse & Buggy, Blue Tango, Summer Skies, The Girl in Satin, China Doll, or Serenata, then you are probably beyond the reach of this light-hearted but seriously entertaining fare, and are sadly disconnected from the schmaltz and slightly tacky but still delightful pleasure of The Waltzing Cat and such classics as The Typewriter, Fiddle-Faddle, The Syncopated Clock, and the still wildly popular Sleigh Ride.

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