Pop Goes the Orchestra-Part VIII

Erich Kunzel

Happy New Year! Today's blog continues our dicussion of Leroy Anderson. Don't forget to get tickets for next Monday's concert, featuring the music of Leroy Anderson.

Anderson wrote his Piano Concerto in C in 1953 but withdrew it, feeling that it had weak spots. In 1988 the Anderson family decided to publish the work. Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra released the first recording of this work; three other recordings have since been released. It is a conservative Romantic work in sonata form, heavily influenced by Rachmaninoff and American popular music, and somewhat resembles Copland's tonal works in style.

Listen to a movement from Anderson's piano concerto.