 But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along. |
| If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long. |
| I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now. |
| I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 had had a classical education prior to that. |
| While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music. |
| Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market. |
| Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow. |
| Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course. |
| I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now. |
| And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood. |
| I grew up on film scores and scores from films. |
| Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear. |
| Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession. |
| 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. |
| In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent. |
