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From: ray@blia.sharebase.com (Ray Gebbie)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Info Wanted on Typewriter music
Summary: Leroy Anderson
Message-ID: <13472@blia.sharebase.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 19:44:32 GMT
References: <1991Feb5.005151.6880@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <7756@chorus.fr>
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> In article <1991Feb5.212609.4371@linus.mitre.org>, jeff@retina.mitre.org (Jeff Graber) writes:
> %% 
> %% I am looking for the name and composer of a piece of music
> %% that included a typewriter in it.  It was very popular in
> %% the late fifties, early sixties.  It may have been called
> %% the typewriter symphony or something.  If you know anything 
> %% about it please reply.
> 

You are probably referring to 'The Typewriter' by Leroy Anderson.  It is a 
'cute' novelty piece for orchestra and typewriter.  Anderson was a 
composer/arranger for the Boston Pops, and wrote a number of lighter
'classical' and novelty pieces, many of which are played by school groups.
He wrote a pretty common christmas piece called 'sleighride'.  I have
a record of his works, and the Cincinatti Pops just put out a CD of his
music.

Probably more than you really wanted to know, right?