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Herbert Pope Stothart (September 11, 1885 – February 1, 1949) was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz.
The secondary ranger theme returns for Langdon voicing his desire to “paint Indians,” with the repeated-note fanfare returning as he dismisses a veiled suggestion from Rogers that he join the army. Woodwind choir quotes “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes” when the men consume rum together.
The MGM composer Herbert Stothart quotes the catchy title song from the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical "Oklahoma" a number of times in his background score for this 1944 film.
Herbert Stothart (11 September 1885 - 1 February 1949) was the veteran composer for the MGM studio who wrote and arranged music for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Stothart started out on Broadway, and later moved to Hollywood, where he became a prolific in-house composer for MGM.
Herbert P. Stothart (September 11, 1885 – February 1, 1949) was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was also nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz.
Career: Teacher; then composer and conductor on Broadway in 1920s: composer of musicals (including Rose Marie with Friml) and orchestral music (including Heart Attack: A Symphonic Poem , 1947); 1928—composer for films: became general music director at MGM.
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Whether inspired by personal memories of Oz’s silent film incarnations or by the MGM film’s sepia-tone sequences, Stothart contributed to the nostalgic spirit of the film through an intricate sequence of musical quotations that hearkened back to the pastiche scores of the silent era.
