Conrad Salinger
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Conrad Salinger (August 30, 1901, Brookline, Massachusetts – June 17, 1962, Pacific Palisades, California) was an American arranger, orchestrator and composer, who studied classical composition at the Paris Conservatoire. He is credited with orchestrating nine productions on Broadway from 1931 to 1938, and over seventy-five motion pictures from 1931 to 1962. Film scholar Clive Hirschhorn considers him the finest orchestrator ever to work in the movies. Early in his career, film composer John Williams spent much time around Salinger.
During his Broadway apprenticeship Salinger first came across Johnny Green, his future MGM musical director, when they were recording motion picture overtures in the early days of sound at New York to be shown before the main features began. Salinger first came out to Hollywood in the late 1930s to work for Alfred Newman (e.g. Born to Dance and Gunga Din) and also collaborated with the famed Broadway orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett on the arrangements for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' 1938 dance picture Carefree.
Salinger orchestrated most of the musicals that MGM is famous for; among them, in addition to the 1951 Show Boat, were Girl Crazy (the 1943 version), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) (which included a memorable arrangement of The Trolley Song), Anchors Aweigh (1945), the 1947 film version of Good News, Summer Holiday (1948), the 1949 film version of On the Town, the 1950 film version of Annie Get Your Gun, Singin' in the Rain (1952), the 1953 film version of Kiss Me, Kate, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), An American in Paris (1951), The Band Wagon (1953), Gene Kelly's pioneering 1956 all-ballet film Invitation to the Dance and the original film musical Gigi (1958). His lush scoring for the ballet sequences in Lerner and Loewe's Brigadoon (1954) have come to be regarded as high points of the orchestrator's art in the Golden Age of musicals.
Películas (52)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · Thanks
Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962 · Orchestrator
The Slowest Gun in the West
1960 · Original Music Composer
Lonelyhearts
1959 · Original Music Composer
The Big Country
1958 · Orchestrator
Funny Face
1957 · Orchestrator
High Society
1956 · Orchestrator
Gaby
1956 · Original Music Composer
Kismet
1955 · Music Arranger
It's Always Fair Weather
1955 · Orchestrator
The Scarlet Coat
1955 · Original Music Composer
Hit the Deck
1955 · Original Music Composer
The Last Time I Saw Paris
1954 · Original Music Composer
Brigadoon
1954 · Orchestrator
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954 · Music, Orchestrator
Tennessee Champ
1954 · Original Music Composer
Kiss Me Kate
1953 · Orchestrator
The Band Wagon
1953 · Orchestrator
Dream Wife
1953 · Original Music Composer
Carbine Williams
1952 · Music
Singin' in the Rain
1952 · Orchestrator
The Unknown Man
1951 · Original Music Composer
An American in Paris
1951 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
Summer Stock
1950 · Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
Stars in My Crown
1950 · Orchestrator
On the Town
1949 · Orchestrator
That Midnight Kiss
1949 · Original Music Composer
The Great Sinner
1949 · Orchestrator
The Barkleys of Broadway
1949 · Orchestrator
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
1949 · Original Music Composer
Easter Parade
1948 · Orchestrator
The Pirate
1948 · Original Music Composer, Music Arranger, Orchestrator
Summer Holiday
1948 · Music
Good News
1947 · Original Music Composer
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946 · Orchestrator
Two Sisters from Boston
1946 · Original Music Composer
The Harvey Girls
1946 · Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
Ziegfeld Follies
1945 · Orchestrator
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944 · Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
Gaslight
1944 · Orchestrator
Main Street Today
1944 · Orchestrator
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943 · Orchestrator
The Black Swan
1942 · Orchestrator
You Were Never Lovelier
1942 · Music Arranger
For Me and My Gal
1942 · Orchestrator
Panama Hattie
1942 · Orchestrator, Vocals
This Above All
1942 · Orchestrator
Lady Be Good
1941 · Orchestrator
Ziegfeld Girl
1941 · Orchestrator
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
1940 · Orchestrator
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938 · Orchestrator
The Smiling Lieutenant
1931 · Music Arranger
