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Conrad Salinger

Conrad Salinger

Composer

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.

Born: August 30, 1901 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA

Died: June 17, 1962 (Age 60)

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Conrad Salinger  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
7.3
SoundOrchestrator, Original Music Composer1951
Movie
6.4
SoundOrchestrator1940
Movie
5.9
SoundOrchestrator1962
Movie
6.9
SoundOrchestrator1954
Movie
7
SoundMusic1952
Movie
6.1
SoundOriginal Music Composer1953
Movie
7.5
SoundOrchestrator1948
Movie
6.8
SoundOrchestrator1942
Movie
7.2
SoundOrchestrator1957
Movie
5.8
SoundOriginal Music Composer1956
Movie
7.9
SoundOrchestrator1944
Movie
6.5
SoundOriginal Music Composer1947
Movie
7.1
SoundOrchestrator1956
Movie
6.3
SoundOriginal Music Composer1955
Movie
7.1
SoundOrchestrator1955
Movie
6.1
SoundMusic Arranger1955
Movie
6.8
SoundOrchestrator1953
Movie
6.2
SoundOrchestrator1941
Movie
6.4
SoundOriginal Music Composer1959
Movie
7.6
SoundOrchestrator1944
Movie
7.5
SoundOrchestrator1949
Movie
5.7
SoundOrchestrator, Vocals1942
Movie
7.5
SoundOrchestrator, Music1954
Movie
7
SoundOrchestrator1957
Movie
8.4
SoundOrchestrator1952
Movie
5.6
SoundMusic1948
Movie
7.3
SoundOriginal Music Composer, Orchestrator1950
Movie
6.8
SoundOriginal Music Composer1949
Movie
5.5
SoundOriginal Music Composer1954
Movie
6.3
SoundOriginal Music Composer1949
Movie
7.5
SoundOrchestrator1953
Movie
8
SoundOrchestrator1958
Movie
6.6
SoundOrchestrator1942
Movie
6.3
SoundOrchestrator1938
Movie
6.4
SoundOrchestrator1949
Movie
6.8
SoundOrchestrator1946
Movie
6.2
SoundOriginal Music Composer1954
Movie
8.1
SoundOrchestrator1943
Movie
6.8
SoundMusic, Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Music Arranger1948
Movie
6.1
SoundOriginal Music Composer1955
Movie
6.9
SoundMusic Arranger1931
Movie
6.3
SoundOriginal Music Composer1951
Movie
6.4
SoundOrchestrator1942
Movie
7.3
SoundMusic Arranger1942
Movie
6.2
SoundOrchestrator1945
Movie
6.6
SoundOrchestrator1941
Short Film
5.9
SoundOrchestrator1944
Movie
6.5
SoundOriginal Music Composer1960
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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