Skitch Henderson, the Grammy-winning conductor who lent his musical expertise to Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby before founding the New York Pops and becoming the first "Tonight Show" bandleader, died ...

Skitch Henderson still can name most of the 17 members of the first band he worked with in North Dakota. It was 70 years ago and not long after he immigrated from England to live with an aunt in ...

Conductor Steven Reineke met the late Skitch Henderson of New Milford in the redwoods of California in 2004. The two -- five decades apart -- shared a concert stage and talked for hours. "We talked ...

After receiving his early professional music experiences in North Dakota in the mid-1930s, Skitch Henderson went on to become one of America's giants in the music industry. However, for the next 60 ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Skitch Henderson, founder and director of the New York Pops orchestra, has been named winner of the Smithsonian's 2005 James Smithson Bicentennial Medal. The honor will be ...

It was one of those oppressive mid-summer nights when the skies darken quickly and a single crash of thunder announces the torrents of rain that will follow. Five miles away there wasn’t a single ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Skitch Henderson, the Grammy-winning conductor who lent his musical expertise to Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby before founding the New York Pops and becoming the first "Tonight Show ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Skitch Henderson, the Grammy-winning conductor who lent his musical expertise to Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby before founding the New York Pops and becoming the first "Tonight Show ...

Skitch Henderson, the Grammy-winning conductor who lent his musical expertise to Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby before founding the New York Pops and becoming the first “Tonight Show” bandleader, died ...

Skitch Henderson, the Grammy-winning conductor who lent his musical expertise to Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby before founding the New York Pops and becoming the first “Tonight Show” bandleader, died ...