32 Quotes by Skitch Henderson

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 started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

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.

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

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.

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.