Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

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

You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds like vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.

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.

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.