Yale Music Library The exhibition is on display from June 27 Honors Leroy Anderson to August 29, 2008. The Gilmore Music Library is located inside Sterling Memorial Centenary with Library, at 120 High Street in New Haven, Exhibition Connecticut. During the summer, it is open weekdays (except July 4) from 8:30 AM to “ Of Typewriters and Sleigh Bells: 4:45 PM. The exhibition is free and open A Celebration of Leroy to the public. Anderson For more information New Haven Register Leroy Anderson Exhibition about the exhibition, New Haven, Connecticut contact: June 29, 2008 Richard Boursy, Archivist, Yale University’s Irving S. Gilmore Music Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) was Gilmore Music Library, Library is honoring the 100th anniversary America’s foremost composer of light Yale University, of the birth of composer Leroy Anderson orchestral music. He produced numerous P.O. Box 208240, with an exhibition entitled Leroy popular classics, including “Sleigh Ride,” New Haven, CT 06520-8240 Anderson.” It features seven musical “The Typewriter,” “The Syncopated Clock,” manuscripts in Anderson’s hand, including and “Blue Tango.” From 1949 until his Photographs the immortal “Sleigh Ride,” as well as death, Anderson lived in Woodbury, on this page unusual artifacts such as Anderson’s Connecticut. by baton, the typewriter that was used as a Rolf Anderson Anderson’s widow, Eleanor Anderson, musical instrument in The Typewriter, and donated the Leroy Anderson Papers to Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell’s official For more information Yale in a series of gifts beginning in 1987. proclamation declaring June 29, 2008 about the exhibition contact: For this exhibition, the Anderson family Leroy Anderson Day. Leroy Anderson Foundation has generously agreed to lend a wide Gilmore Music Library variety of additional materials. Yale Univeristy LEROY ANDERSON FOUNDATION -POBOX 447 - WOODBURY CT 06798 USA.