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Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.
And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.
But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.
Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.
I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.
I grew up on film scores and scores from films.
I had had a classical education prior to that.
I listen to everything.
I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.
I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.
I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now.
I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby and Sinatra, so of course that was a great ground school for me.
I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.
If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.
In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent.
Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.
That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.
Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.
We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.
We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.
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Skitch Henderson
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27 January, 1918
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01 November, 2005
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