American - Musician | January 27, 1918 - November 1, 2005
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.
Skitch Henderson
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I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.
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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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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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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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Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession.
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I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.
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Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.
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And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.
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I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.
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