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• I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.

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• And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

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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.

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• But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

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• I grew up on film scores and scores from films.

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• I had had a classical education prior to that.

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• Do, What you’re going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

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• I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.

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• If you don’t operate it as a business, you aren’t going to be around very long.

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• I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

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• 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.

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• I’ve watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

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• I think my favorite experience is whatever I’m doing now.

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• In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent.

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• 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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• 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.

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• Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.

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• 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.

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• Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.

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• Well, in our business, it’s a very tough profession.

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Skitch Henderson (22)

Birth:	27th January, 1918
Death:	1st November, 2005
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer, Music Director, Pianist, Music Conductor

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