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Conrad Salinger
Composer, Additional Credits
Born August 30, 1901Died June 17, 1962 (60 years)
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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.
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.
Conrad Salinger Filmography
| 1962 | Billy Rose's Jumbo · as Orchestrator |
| 1960 | The Slowest Gun in the West · as Original Music Composer |
| 1959 | Ford Startime (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1959 | Markham (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1958 | Lonelyhearts · as Original Music Composer |
| 1958 | The Big Country · as Orchestrator |
| 1958 | Gigi · as Composer |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1957 | Bachelor Father (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1957 | Silk Stockings · as Orchestrator |
| 1957 | Funny Face · as Orchestrator |
| 1956 | Gaby · as Original Music Composer |
| 1956 | High Society · as Orchestrator |
| 1955 | Kismet · as Music Arranger |
| 1955 | It's Always Fair Weather · as Orchestrator |
| 1955 | The Scarlet Coat · as Original Music Composer |
| 1955 | Hit the Deck · as Original Music Composer |
| 1954 | The Last Time I Saw Paris · as Original Music Composer |
| 1954 | Brigadoon · as Orchestrator |
| 1954 | Tennessee Champ · as Original Music Composer |
| 1953 | Kiss Me Kate · as Orchestrator |
| 1953 | The Band Wagon · as Orchestrator |
| 1953 | Dream Wife · as Original Music Composer |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1952 | Washington Story · as Composer |
| 1952 | Singin' in the Rain · as Orchestrator |
| 1952 | The Belle of New York · as Composer |
| 1951 | The Unknown Man · as Original Music Composer |
| 1951 | An American in Paris · as Original Music Composer |
| 1951 | Show Boat · as Composer |
| 1950 | Pagan Love Song · as Composer |
| 1950 | Stars in My Crown · as Orchestrator |
| 1950 | Summer Stock · as Orchestrator |
| 1950 | Nancy Goes to Rio · as Composer |
| 1949 | On the Town · as Orchestrator |
| 1949 | That Midnight Kiss · as Original Music Composer |
| 1949 | The Barkleys of Broadway · as Orchestrator |
| 1949 | The Great Sinner · as Orchestrator |
| 1949 | Take Me Out to the Ball Game · as Original Music Composer |
| 1948 | Words and Music · as Composer |
| 1948 | Easter Parade · as Orchestrator |
| 1948 | The Pirate · as Original Music Composer |
| 1947 | |
| 1947 | Dark Delusion · as Composer |
| 1946 | Till the Clouds Roll By · as Orchestrator |
| 1946 | Two Sisters from Boston · as Composer |
| 1946 | The Harvey Girls · as Orchestrator |
| 1945 | Ziegfeld Follies · as Orchestrator |
| 1944 | Meet Me in St. Louis · as Orchestrator |
| 1944 | Gaslight · as Orchestrator |
| 1944 | Rationing · as Composer |
| 1943 | Girl Crazy · as Composer |
| 1943 | The Ox-Bow Incident · as Orchestrator |
| 1942 | The Black Swan · as Orchestrator |
| 1942 | You Were Never Lovelier · as Music Arranger |
| 1942 | For Me and My Gal · as Orchestrator |
| 1942 | Panama Hattie · as Orchestrator |
| 1942 | This Above All · as Orchestrator |
| 1941 | Lady Be Good · as Orchestrator |
| 1941 | Ziegfeld Girl · as Orchestrator |
| 1940 | Andy Hardy Meets Debutante · as Orchestrator |
| 1938 | The Cowboy and the Lady · as Orchestrator |
| 1931 | The Smiling Lieutenant · as Music Arranger |