Leroy Anderson wrote Clarinet Candy in 1962 as a showpiece for the clarinets, and this version is for wind band. It is a brisk, good-humoured novelty of under three minutes, built on rapid, fluent...

Leroy Anderson's Pirate Dance is drawn from the ballet sequence (the Huckleberry Island Ballet) of his 1958 Broadway musical Goldilocks, and was published in a concert version for orchestra in the...

Leroy Anderson’s A Christmas Festival for Wind Band is the composer’s own concert band version of his popular Christmas overture, originally written for the Boston Pops Orchestra at the request of...

“The Typewriter” is a novelty orchestral showpiece completed on 9 October 1950; Anderson scored it for full orchestra with a real typewriter used as a solo percussion instrument (three principal...