Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.
I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.
I listen to everything.
I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.
I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.
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.