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.

I listen to everything.

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

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.

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

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.

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