[78-L] Leroy Anderson query

[David Lennick]

Odd that neither piece is on DL 74335, "The New Music of Leroy Anderson", which 
has 6 titles from Goldilocks. I don't have any answers.

dl

On 5/14/2011 12:03 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
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> This is a query from my brother Richard, a writer for the Los Angeles Times and annotator of a series of Naxos CDs on the music of Leroy Anderson. If anyone can help with his question, please let me know.
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> Cary Ginell
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> Leroy Anderson recorded two different versions of "Lady In Waiting"
>   from the musical "Goldilocks" – one an extended, elaborately-worked-out
> Ballet Music, the other a shorter, more-to-the-point Waltz – on the
> same day, June 3, 1959, but chose to release only the Ballet Music on
> his album "Leroy Anderson Conducts Leroy Anderson." The Leroy Anderson
> website flatly states that the Waltz was never released.
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> Or so the story goes.  I have just received a pink-label Decca promo
> single, "Lady In Waiting/Pyramid Dance,"  that seriously challenges
> this assumption.
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> The "Lady In Waiting" performance on the single appears to be an
> alternate version of the Waltz that was given its "world premiere
> recording" by Leonard Slatkin on Naxos in 2008. The timing on the
> single is 2:52 – my stopwatch says  2:34 – much shorter than the 4:55
> Ballet Music version on the album. The Anderson Bio-Bibliography lists
> the timing of the Waltz as 3:26  (Slatkin's version is 3:28). The
> record number of the single is 9-30979, the master number of "Lady in
> Waiting" is 107,401.  The MCA Master book lists the album version of
> "Lady In Waiting" as 107,400.  The MCA book also has a release date for
> the single, Oct. 5, 1959, but that doesn't guarantee that it was
> actually issued.  It may have been pressed only as a promo, and then
> cancelled for commercial release.  It's possible that Anderson himself
> – a hyper-self-critical composer – made the decision to cancel the
> single.
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> What I'm wondering is; does anyone know of a commercial, black-label
> Decca copy of this single?
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> Richard Ginell
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