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May 2024
Intrada releases Night Passage soundtrack

Posted on May 17, 2024 by wsherk

Intrada Records has released the world premiere of the complete motion picture score composed by Dimitri Tiomkin for Night Passage. Shipping now, the CD features Tiomkin’s original music for the 1958 Universal Pictures Western starring James Stewart. Listen to audio … Read More…

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April 2024
Behind the Scenes: Did Lubitsch want to direct a Broadway musical in 1932?

Posted on May 12, 2024 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk Ernst Lubitsch, the German-born American film director, producer, writer, and actor, is best known for his sophisticated, elegant, and witty romantic comedies, often starring Pola Negri, Greta Garbo, and Jeanette MacDonald. When Lubitsch first landed in … Read More…

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March 2024
Remembering Orville Kelman (1922–2024)

Posted on April 28, 2024 by wsherk

Orville Kelman, accountant, world traveler, role model, and mentor, passed away on February 23, 2024, in Thousand Oaks, California. Kelman served as the longtime accountant for Volta Music, Dimitri Tiomkin’s music publishing company incorporated in California in 1957. Olivia Tiomkin … Read More…

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February 2024
Elmer Bernstein, Film Composer: An Authorized Biography by Peter Bernstein

Posted on March 23, 2024 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk With Maestro in movie theaters and an Elmer Bernstein biography on bookstore shelves, two great American musicians of the 20th century with the surname Bernstein are on the minds of filmgoers and readers. Maestro is bringing awareness … Read More…

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January 2024
Behind the photograph: Nickolas Muray portrait of Dimitri Tiomkin

Posted on March 2, 2024 by wsherk
Dimitri Tiomkin portrait by Nickolas Muray, 1928

In the thick of his career as a concert pianist based in New York, Dimitri Tiomkin sat in the studio of photographer Nickolas Muray in the Park Central Hotel at 56th Street and 7th Avenue, a stone’s throw from Central … Read More…

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December 2023
Aniket Singh Solanki receives Dimitri Tiomkin Student Assistantship

Posted on January 7, 2024 by wsherk

Aniket Singh Solanki is the recipient of the Dimitri Tiomkin Endowed Fund for Student Assistantships from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California (USC) for the academic year, 2023-2024. READ (USC press release pdf): Tiomkin – … Read More…

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November 2023
Happy 20th Anniversary, DimitriTiomkin.com

Posted on November 21, 2023 by wsherk

As anniversaries go, 20 seems to be a respectable number. When this website launched in 2003, Google was turning five years old and the Internet itself was merely twenty. The Dimitri Tiomkin official website celebrates 20 years! Our first post, … Read More…

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October 2023
Warner Archive releases Land of the Pharaohs on Blu-ray

Posted on November 11, 2023 by wsherk
Land of the Pharaohs one sheet, US

The Blu-ray release of Land of the Pharaohs on Blu-ray, on July 18, brings to three the number of Warner Bros. films scored by Dimitri Tiomkin available in the Warner Archive Collection this year. READ: Warner Archive releases Angel Face … Read More…

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September 2023
Warner Archive releases Angel Face and The Old Man and the Sea on Blu-ray

Posted on November 5, 2023 by wsherk
Angel Face Style B half sheet poster

The Warner Archive Collection releases of Angel Face and The Old Man and the Sea on June 27, 2023, bring two beautifully restored classic studio films scored by Dimitri Tiomkin to the home market on Blu-ray. Angel Face Originally presented … Read More…

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August 2023
Behold a Trending Composer! Maurice Jarre replaces first choice Dimitri Tiomkin for Fred Zinnemann’s film based on Killing a Mouse on Sunday

Posted on September 24, 2023 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk Maurice Jarre provided the music score for director Fred Zinnemann’s 1964 film, Behold a Pale Horse; however, we recently learned that Zinnemann’s first choice was Dimitri Tiomkin. Even before the production was announced in the press, … Read More…

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