Thomas Jefferson "T.J." Anderson, Jr.[1] (born August 17, 1928) is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator and educator.
[8] During the period of time he spent with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Anderson orchestrated Scott Joplin's opera, Treemonisha,[8] originally written in 1911.
[10] In 1972, Anderson was hired as a professor of music and department chair at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, where he worked until 1990.
In 1983, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree by the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
The younger Anderson is married to Pauline Kaldas, a poet, author, and fellow English professor at Hollins University.
Anderson served from 1986 to 1991 on the commission that produced Singing the Living Tradition, a hymnal published by the Unitarian Universalist Association in 1993.