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"Sleigh Ride" is a light orchestra standard composed by Leroy Anderson. He formed the idea for the piece during a heat wave in July 1946, and finished it in February 1948. Its first performance was by the Boston Pops Orchestra, with Arthur Fiedler conducting, on May 4, 1948. [1] Anderson also made arrangements for wind band and piano. [2] [3]
A Nantucket sleighride was extremely dangerous. The speed would vary depending on the species of the whale; humpback whales, for example, gave a faster ride. The sperm whale caused the longest drag events, reaching speeds of 23 mph (37 km/h). [2] The length of the drag lasted until the animal had no more energy.
The name of the title track is a reference to a Nantucket sleighride, the dragging of a whaleboat by a harpooned whale. Owen Coffin, to whom the song is dedicated, was a young seaman on the Nantucket whaler Essex, which was rammed and sunk by a sperm whale in 1820.
The Alpine Sleigh Ride was a dark ride located in the Alpine Valley section of AstroWorld in Houston, Texas.It was one of the original attractions of the park and operated from 1968 until the end of the 1983 operating season.
Kulig (sleigh rides) is an old Polish winter tradition dating back to the days of the szlachta (nobility). The kulig was a sleigh ride party organized among the Polish aristocracy. A cavalcade of horse-pulled sleighs and sleds went from one manor house to another, entertained everywhere with hearty meals followed by dancing.
Two people in a horse-drawn cutter-style sleigh A loaded dogsled Children with their sled, 1903 Boy lying on a Flexible Flyer Traveling by sleigh, Muscovy, mid-16th century, according to Sigismund von Herberstein. A sled, skid, sledge, or sleigh is a land vehicle that slides across a surface, usually of ice or snow.
The Sleigh Ride is a two-hour real-time reindeer sleigh ride with Sami people filmed in Karasjok Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. [6] It aired on 24 December 2015. It was repeated on 24 December 2016 and on 16 December 2017.
He completed the work on February 10, 1948. The composer copyrighted "Sleigh Ride" as an instrumental in 1948. Lyricist Mitchell Parish authored the lyrics to "Sleigh Ride" in 1950 with the permission of the composer. The vocal version was copyrighted in 1950. The instrumental version of "Sleigh Ride" will not enter the public domain until 2043.