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 Frederick Fennell Conducts The Music Of Leroy Anderson
Release Date: 09/22/1994 
Label:  Mercury Living Presence   Catalog #: 432013   Spars Code: ADD 
Composer:  Leroy Anderson
Performer:  Frederick FennellGervase de Peyer
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Eastman-Rochester PopsOrchestra

Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Mono 
Length: 1 Hours 9 Mins. 

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"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.

Although the Boston Pops pretty much owned many of these pieces, Frederick Fennell and his Eastman-Rochester Pops (and unnamed London orchestra that plays on nearly half of these 23 tracks) did a more than respectable job, enhanced by the unsurpassed audio engineering of the Mercury Living Presence team--Wilma Cozart, Harold Lawrence, and C. Robert Fine...A treasure! [12/9/2005]

--David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com [Reviewing SACD version]

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1.  Belle of the Ball by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Eastman-Rochester Pops
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1951; USA 
Date of Recording: 03/03/1958 
Venue:  Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York 
Length: 2 Minutes 55 Secs. 
2.  Horse and Buggy by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Eastman-Rochester Pops
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1951; USA 
Date of Recording: 03/03/1958 
Venue:  Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York 
Length: 3 Minutes 37 Secs. 
3.  The Waltzing Cat by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Eastman-Rochester Pops
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1950; USA 
Date of Recording: 03/03/1958 
Venue:  Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York 
Length: 2 Minutes 26 Secs. 
4.  Blue Tango by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Eastman-Rochester Pops
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1951; USA 
Date of Recording: 03/03/1958 
Venue:  Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York 
Length: 3 Minutes 35 Secs. 
5.  Summer Skies by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Eastman-Rochester Pops
Period: 20th Century 
Written: USA 
Date of Recording: 03/03/1958 
Venue:  Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York 
Length: 3 Minutes 1 Secs. 
6.  Song of the Bells by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Eastman-Rochester Pops
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1953; USA 
Date of Recording: 03/03/1958 
Venue:  Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York 
Length: 3 Minutes 33 Secs. 
7.  The Typewriter by Leroy Anderson
Performer:  Frederick Fennell (Typewriter)
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Eastman-Rochester Pops
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1950; USA 
Date of Recording: 03/03/1958 
Venue:  Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York 
Length: 1 Minutes 43 Secs. 
8.  Syncopated Clock by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Eastman-Rochester Pops
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1945; USA 
Date of Recording: 03/03/1958 
Venue:  Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York 
Length: 2 Minutes 30 Secs. 
9.  Girl in Satin by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Eastman-Rochester Pops
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1953; USA 
Date of Recording: 03/03/1958 
Venue:  Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York 
Length: 2 Minutes 43 Secs. 
10.  China Doll by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Eastman-Rochester Pops
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1951; USA 
Date of Recording: 03/03/1958 
Venue:  Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York 
Length: 2 Minutes 53 Secs. 
11.  Saraband by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Eastman-Rochester Pops
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1948; USA 
Date of Recording: 03/03/1958 
Venue:  Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York 
Length: 3 Minutes 48 Secs. 
12.  Fiddle Faddle by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Eastman-Rochester Pops
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1947; USA 
Date of Recording: 03/03/1958 
Venue:  Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York 
Length: 3 Minutes 48 Secs. 
13.  Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Eastman-Rochester Pops
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1948; USA 
Date of Recording: 10/25/1956 
Venue:  Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York 
Length: 2 Minutes 50 Secs. 
14.  Serenata by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Eastman-Rochester Pops
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1947; USA 
Date of Recording: 10/25/1956 
Venue:  Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York 
Length: 3 Minutes 46 Secs. 
15.  Promenade by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1945; USA 
Date of Recording: 07/09/1964 
Venue:  Watford Town Hall, London, England 
Length: 2 Minutes 27 Secs. 
16.  Chicken Reel by Leroy Anderson
Performer:  Gervase de Peyer (Clarinet)
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1946; USA 
Date of Recording: 07/09/1964 
Venue:  Watford Town Hall, London, England 
Length: 2 Minutes 43 Secs. 
17.  Phantom Regiment by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1951; USA 
Date of Recording: 07/09/1964 
Venue:  Watford Town Hall, London, England 
Length: 3 Minutes 11 Secs. 
18.  Jazz Legato by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1938; USA 
Date of Recording: 07/09/1964 
Venue:  Watford Town Hall, London, England 
Length: 1 Minutes 45 Secs. 
19.  Jazz Pizzicato by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1938; USA 
Date of Recording: 07/09/1964 
Venue:  Watford Town Hall, London, England 
Length: 1 Minutes 55 Secs. 
20.  Plink, Plank, Plunk! by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1951; USA 
Date of Recording: 07/09/1964 
Venue:  Watford Town Hall, London, England 
Length: 2 Minutes 31 Secs. 
21.  Scottish Suite: Blue Bells of Scotland by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1954; USA 
Date of Recording: 07/09/1964 
Venue:  Watford Town Hall, London, England 
Length: 2 Minutes 0 Secs. 
22.  The First Day of Spring by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1954; USA 
Date of Recording: 07/09/1964 
Venue:  Watford Town Hall, London, England 
Length: 2 Minutes 47 Secs. 
23.  Song of Jupiter by Leroy Anderson
Conductor:  Frederick Fennell
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra
Period: 20th Century 
Written: USA 
Date of Recording: 07/09/1964 
Venue:  Watford Town Hall, London, England 
Length: 4 Minutes 25 Secs. 
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Horse and Buggy
The Girl in Satin
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