Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start Anderson joined the Army. His study of languages finally had a practical result when the Army made him assistant chief of its Scandinavian desk at Washington. Among other things, he had to monitor broadcasts in Reykjavik, Iceland...
...musical career was well started, so Anderson decided that he would not have to teach after all, and quit Harvard. Before he could leave for New York, however, Arthur Fiedler, director of the Boston Pops, asked him to start writing for the orchestra. Beginning with "Harvard Fantasy" in 1937, and continuing with "Jazz Pizzicato" and "Jazz Legato," Anderson's compositions have become perennial favorites of Pops audiences...
Fiedler is still Anderson's chief adviser, and the orchestra's concerts are the main testing ground for his new works. "I watch the audience when I'm trying out something new. A composer can't assume that he knows more than anyone else...
...return from service, Anderson went back to work for Fiedler, composing what is perhaps his most widely-heard number, "Fiddle-Faddle," in 1947. The newly-reorganized Harvard Band asked his help and he wrote medleys of most of the Ivy League songs; these became standard with the Band and have since been copied by many other eastern college bands because of their popularity...
Besides his arranging duties, Anderson is now working on a piano concerto for next spring. "I don't know how it will turn out, but when I get an idea, I try to follow it through. I'm still feeling my way along as far as composing is concerned," he explains...