- The Leroy Anderson House, the former home of Leroy Anderson in Woodbury, Connecticut, was named by the National Park Service to the National Register of Historic Places in December 2012. The Town of Woodbury designated the Leroy Anderson House as a historic house museum in April 2018. It is the headquarters of the Leroy Anderson Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit, charitable organization created in 2010 by Mrs. Eleanor Anderson, wife of Leroy Anderson.
The Leroy Anderson House contains an exhibit about Leroy Anderson. Group Visits may be arranged by advance reservation. The house is open for general admission on Open Days in early and late Summer, in Autumn and in December. It is one of only a few homes of an American composer that is occasionally open to the public.
- IMDb mini biography by: Leroy Anderson Foundation
- SpouseEleanor Firke(1942 - May 18, 1975) (his death, 4 children)
- Anderson's "The Typewriter," a pops-concert staple composed in 1950, actually features a manual typewriter on the stage with the orchestra. In a 1970 interview, Anderson described how he made the typing sound a part of the music, not just an added effect. "We have two drummers," Anderson said. "A lot of people think we use stenographers, but they can't do it because they can't make their fingers move fast enough. So we have drummers because they can get wrist action."
Leonard Slatkin, conductor of the new Anderson CDs, has played a few typewriters himself on the concert stage and says it's hard. "You have to tamp down all the middle keys so that only the two outside ones work. And you have to start with your right hand in order to be able to hit the carriage return where Anderson specifies.". - His "Syncopated Clock" was the theme song for "The Late (and Late, Late) Show(s)", WCBS-TV's movie programs that usually ran all through the New York night into early morning, this before the advent of late-night original programming, such as Late Show with David Letterman (1993). Another Anderson song, "The Phantom Regiment", was the theme song for the "Four O'Clock Movie" that was shown weekdays on another New York station in the early 60s.
- Leroy Anderson arranged many pieces for Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra throughout the years.
- His "Forgotten Dreams" was for many years in the 1970s the closing theme of Friday editions of New York station WABC-TV's Eyewitness News (1968).
- Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1988.
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