 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 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, Johnny Green and André Previn, have subsequently paid tribute to his musical abilities.