Christmas music is special because of the fact that Christmas is special; such an important religious holiday; so naturally anything associated with it has a special place in our lives and, of course, music even more so because music has the most special and the most personal place in our lives…there’s variety of expression at Christmas that you can’t get with just decoration, you can’t get with just a spoken word, because music has a wider range of expression.

This very special collection of Leroy Anderson’s holiday music was put together with the help and support of Leroy’s son Kurt Anderson as well as conductor Leonard Slatkin.