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.
25-555: Salinger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Conrad Salinger (1901–1962), American arranger-orchestrator and composer Diane Salinger (born 1951), American actress and voice actress J. D. Salinger (1919–2010), American writer and author of Catcher in the Rye Salinger (film) , a 2013 documentary film about the American author Salinger (book) ,
50-734: A 2013 biography about the American author Lawrence M. Salinger (1958–2013), professor of criminology and sociology Margaretta Salinger (1907–1985), American art historian and curator Matt Salinger (born 1960), American actor, the son of author J. D. Salinger and psychologist Claire Douglas Michael Salinger (born 1962), American poet, performer, and educator living in Northeast Ohio Pierre Salinger (1925–2004), John F. Kennedy's press secretary Stefan Salinger (born 1965), Austrian curler See also [ edit ] Selinger Sellinger [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
75-639: 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
100-400: A somewhat smaller orchestra than usual but nevertheless achieved a rich, elaborately constructed sound in his arrangements. The fact the orchestra Salinger used was smaller in size than the normal huge studio orchestra was practically unnoticeable, except that the quality of the orchestral sound on films that Salinger worked on seemed greatly improved, with much less distortion than was common in
125-488: Is claimed that Salinger committed suicide . He lost his home in the 1961 Bel Air Fire , which police believe may have contributed to his despondency. The last film that he worked on was Billy Rose's Jumbo , released in 1962. It was not a big success, either critically or commercially. The film was based on a not too successful 1935 Rodgers and Hart stage musical, although the show did produce three hits, " My Romance ," " Little Girl Blue ," and " The Most Beautiful Girl in
150-486: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Conrad 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
175-483: The 1951 film version of Show Boat (music by Kern) if he "simplified" his style of orchestration. (The two patched it up and did work on that film and subsequent others, receiving a joint Academy Award nomination for it.) 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
200-656: The Ted Weems orchestra. He began writing big-band charts for Weems as well as Tommy Dorsey , Paul Whiteman and Harry James . By 1935 Royal was hosting his own radio show in New York and fronted an orchestra which often played on Long Island . However, he may have run into unemployment and financial troubles in the economic downturn of 1937. In 1938 he started arranging music for theater in Fort Worth, Texas. Returning to New York to work on Billy Rose's Aquacade for
225-480: The World's Fair , he came to the attention of Max Dreyfus who ran the in-demand theater orchestration department at Chappell Music . In just two weeks his hard-working team could orchestrate the average musicomedy for the price of $ 6,000. Dreyfus signed Royal as a house orchestrator and in 1939 he moved into the same building with Robert Russell Bennett , Don Walker and Hans Spialek . His legitimate Broadway start
250-557: The surname Salinger . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Salinger&oldid=1231973491 " Categories : Surnames German-language surnames Germanic-language surnames Surnames of Jewish origin Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
275-562: 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. Although many of the films Salinger worked on were Oscar -nominated for the adaptation of the music featured in them, according to industry practices at
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#1732772518089300-574: The Oscar race. But in the case of An American in Paris , the nomination went only to Johnny Green, who conducted the George Gershwin music heard in the film, and not to Salinger. Green won that year; Salinger never received an Oscar. Despite this lack of popular recognition during his lifetime, Salinger was highly regarded within the film music industry; working steadily and occasionally uncredited (e.g. The Big Country for Jerome Moross ). He
325-483: The Town . Steven Suskin has confirmed that Royal was responsible for arranging the show-stopping Ethel Merman anthem " There's No Business Like Show Business ". By 1947 Royal went out on his own and struck it big with his sole credit for the atmospheric orchestrations heard in Brigadoon . Other principal orchestration credits were for Loesser's first show Where's Charley? , Harold Arlen 's House of Flowers ,
350-563: The World ." Salinger also composed original music for film and television. Among the A-list film scores he wrote was the 1953 romantic comedy Dream Wife and the 1958 drama Lonelyhearts ; some of the TV scores he worked on were those for the late 1950s series Wagon Train and Bachelor Father . Ted Royal Ted Royal [Dewar] (6 September 1904, Skedee, Oklahoma - 27 March (?) 1981)
375-448: The cult classic Flahooley and Mr. Wonderful , headlining Sammy Davis Jr. With Charles L. Cooke he came up with the right 1920s sounds for Sandy Wilson 's The Boy Friend . In 1952, he arranged the music for New Faces of 1952 on Broadway, starring Eartha Kitt . His arrangements can be heard on the original cast recording album . He also did the orchestrations for the 1957 musical, Rumple . Personal problems, including
400-727: The days before true high fidelity . However, in Hugh Fordin's The World of Entertainment: The Freed Unit at MGM , a 1975 book dealing with the MGM musicals, composer-conductor Adolph Deutsch , who worked with Salinger on more than one film, criticized his orchestrations for the Jerome Kern 1946 biopic Till the Clouds Roll By as being "too elaborate" for a composer like Kern (a criticism that Salinger reportedly did not take well) and recounted he would only work with Salinger on
425-523: The death of his only daughter on her honeymoon, started to impinge upon his career and there were fewer assignments in the 1960s. He accepted minor arranging chores from Irwin Kostal for forgettable television programs and did the scores for a pair of silent film compilations. During the late 1940s, Royal had taught composition and arranging at the Juilliard School and in his retirement wrote
450-539: The famed Broadway orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett on the arrangements for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers ' 1938 dance picture Carefree . Salinger is recognized as MGM's best principal orchestrator of musicals made between 1942 and 1962. He reputedly studied mathematical musical progressions under the influential theorist Joseph Schillinger , whose other students included George Gershwin , and major Broadway/Hollywood orchestrators such as Ted Royal , Edward B. Powell , and Herbert W. Spencer . Salinger employed
475-521: The name of Ted Klinefelter. He majored in music at the University of Kansas and completed further studies in Houston and New York, including a correspondence course in the mathematical musical progressions advanced by the influential theorist Joseph Schillinger , who had also taught George Gershwin . After floating around as a sideman in various minstrel shows, Royal settled down as alto sax in
500-400: The original soundtracks of his scores on compact discs. The British conductor John Wilson has also been repopularizing his work in a series of concerts and recordings featuring reconstructions of the original orchestrations of the MGM classics. Salinger died suddenly in 1962, under disputed circumstances. The Internet Movie Database states that he had a heart attack in his sleep, but it
525-400: The time, nominations usually went to the musical directors/conductors of the music (such as Adolph Deutsch or André Previn ), and not to orchestrators. Only once was Salinger nominated, for his Show Boat orchestrations. Ironically, the film An American in Paris , which Salinger also orchestrated, was nominated for the same award that year, so the two films were competing against each other in
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#1732772518089550-505: The way their songs were orchestrated and presented. Barbra Streisand insisted on reusing his original orchestrations when they could be found and colleagues, including Stanley Donen , Debbie Reynolds , Johnny Green and André Previn, have subsequently paid tribute to his musical abilities. Salinger's contributions have gained wider public recognition since the 1970s with the release of the That's Entertainment! compilation films and many of
575-515: Was an American orchestrator , conductor and composer for Broadway theatre . He was most active in the 1940s and 1950s, being associated with the very successful original productions of Lerner and Loewe 's Brigadoon and Paint Your Wagon . Together with George Bassman he orchestrated Frank Loesser 's Guys and Dolls . The dean of musical orchestrators, Robert Russell Bennett , remembered Royal as "one of Broadway's very special arrangers." Royal may have also been known in New York under
600-551: Was assisting Spialek and Walker with the orchestration duties for the George White Scandals of 1939 , featuring Ella Logan , Ann Miller and The Three Stooges . Quickly followed high-profile collaborations with Russell Bennett on Buddy DeSylva 's DuBarry Was a Lady and Mike Todd 's Mexican Hayride . He was also a valued "hot jazz" and swing exponent for the team of orchestrators who worked on Annie Get Your Gun and Leonard Bernstein 's breakthrough On
625-449: Was content to collaborate with some of the jazzier arrangers on the lot, most frequently Skip Martin and once memorably with Nelson Riddle for High Society (1956). Salinger orchestrated for film the music of all the major popular composers of the mid-20th century, including Irving Berlin , George Gershwin , Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter . His work on the 1948 biopic Words and Music , led Richard Rodgers to publicly applaud
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