Conrad Salinger
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- August 30, 1901
- Died
- June 17, 1962 (aged 60)
- Birthplace
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Known For
Filmography
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Movie · Orchestrator
The Slowest Gun in the West
Movie · Original Music Composer
Lonelyhearts
Movie · Original Music Composer
Startime
TV · Original Music Composer · 2 eps
The Big Country
Movie · Orchestrator
Funny Face
Movie · Orchestrator
Gaby
Movie · Original Music Composer
High Society
Movie · Orchestrator
The Scarlet Coat
Movie · Original Music Composer
Hit the Deck
Movie · Original Music Composer
Kismet
Movie · Music Arranger
It's Always Fair Weather
Movie · Orchestrator
Brigadoon
Movie · Orchestrator
Tennessee Champ
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Movie · Original Music Composer
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Movie · Music, Orchestrator
Dream Wife
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Band Wagon
Movie · Orchestrator
Kiss Me Kate
Movie · Orchestrator
Carbine Williams
Movie · Music
Singin' in the Rain
Movie · Orchestrator
The Unknown Man
Movie · Original Music Composer
An American in Paris
Movie · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
Summer Stock
Movie · Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
Stars in My Crown
Movie · Orchestrator
That Midnight Kiss
Movie · Original Music Composer
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Great Sinner
Movie · Orchestrator
On the Town
Movie · Orchestrator
The Barkleys of Broadway
Movie · Orchestrator
Summer Holiday
Movie · Music
Easter Parade
Movie · Orchestrator
The Pirate
Movie · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Music Arranger
Good News
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Harvey Girls
Movie · Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
Till the Clouds Roll By
Movie · Orchestrator
Two Sisters from Boston
Movie · Original Music Composer
Ziegfeld Follies
Movie · Orchestrator
Gaslight
Movie · Orchestrator
Main Street Today
Movie · Orchestrator
Meet Me in St. Louis
Movie · Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
The Ox-Bow Incident
Movie · Orchestrator
The Black Swan
Movie · Orchestrator
You Were Never Lovelier
Movie · Music Arranger
Panama Hattie
Movie · Orchestrator, Vocals
This Above All
Movie · Orchestrator
For Me and My Gal
Movie · Orchestrator
Lady Be Good
Movie · Orchestrator
Ziegfeld Girl
Movie · Orchestrator
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Movie · Orchestrator
The Cowboy and the Lady
Movie · Orchestrator
The Smiling Lieutenant
Movie · Music Arranger