Sinatra did work with Dorsey and his orchestra<\/a> early in his career) by interspersing each artist’s work throughout the program.<\/p>\nIf the rest of the pops programs have audiences leaving as happily as this one did, the OSO pops has a bright future.<\/p>\n
Also – Principal oboist Marty Hebert was a finalist in the Jeopardy! contestant search here in Portland over the weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 He may be called to be on the game show sometime in the next 18 months!<\/p>\n
And don’t forget to vote in this week’s poll, it closes on October 17th at midnight.<\/p>\n
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