Herbert Stothart

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Herbert Stothart was born in Milwaukee in 1885 and came from Broadway, where he wrote and conducted operettas, including Rose-Marie (1924) together with Rudolf Friml. In 1929 he joined MGM and was its musical director there for years. The Rogue Song (1930), with the opera singer Lawrence Tibbett, was an early musical film in colour. Stothart worked in the style of late Romanticism: lots of strings, familiar melodies as quotation, and music that doubles the emotion of a scene. He wrote the score for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). For The Wizard of Oz (1939) he wove Harold Arlen's songs into his orchestral music and won an Oscar. His work typifies the smooth studio sound of MGM.

Listening

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  The Rogue Song · Lawrence Tibbett, 1930
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  Mutiny on the Bounty · Herbert Stothart, 1935
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  Main Title · Herbert Stothart, 1939

Discography

Studio albums

• 2006Random Harvest / The Yearling (soundtrack)
• 2010Dragon Seed (soundtrack)

Other work

• 1930The Rogue Song
• 1935Mutiny on the Bounty
• 1939The Wizard of Oz

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Film Music Map^NL Map
• The Dream Factory: Film Reel 1^NL Reader

See also

• Early sound film (talkies)
• Golden Age: symphonic Hollywood and leitmotif
• Filmmusical