Search Results for: Dimitri Tiomkin

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February 2026
Intrada releases Dimitri Tiomkin: From New York to Hollywood: Music for Albertina Rasch and Classic Films

Dimitri Tiomkin: From New York to Hollywood: Music for Albertina Rasch and Classic Films by Dimitri Tiomkin, featuring conductor Richard Kaufman and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, is now available from Intrada on compact disc. This remarkable recording brings together for the first … Read More…

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January 2026
Behind the Photograph: Ballet at the Beach? Dimitri Tiomkin at the piano

To promote their films and talent, the Hollywood movie studios went to great lengths to find that perfect image that would catch the eye of potential moviegoers, with scantily clad women and pets among the common cliches. This historic photograph, … Read More…

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Dimitri Tiomkin with Albertina Rasch dancers, circa 1929-1930

The Dimitri Tiomkin Anthology (Hal Leonard)

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December 2025
Dimitri Tiomkin’s steel baton, brought to you by U.S. Steel

Modern conducting batons are generally made of lightweight wood, fiberglass, or carbon fiber. A steel baton? Even Google AI gets tripped up on the concept. “There is no record of a widely recognized, famous, modern orchestral conductor specifically known for … Read More…

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May 2025
Dimitri Tiomkin: new and recent research

New and recent research on Dimitri Tiomkin reveals the broad range and enviable reach of the four-time Academy Award-winning composer’s work in film. In Hearing Death at the Movies: Film Music and the Long History of the Dies Irae, author … Read More…

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March 2025
Dimitri Tiomkin and the New York Philharmonic

Dimitri Tiomkin’s long association with the Hollywood Bowl and the Los Angeles Philharmonic has been documented on this website; however, we have neglected to likewise shine light on performances of his music by the New York Philharmonic. This is possible … Read More…

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February 2025
Dimitri Tiomkin’s contribution to Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

The Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington title song, “Wild Is the Wind,” from the 1957 film of the same name, plays an important role in one of the five films nominated in January for an Academy Award (Oscar) for Documentary … Read More…

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January 2025
Behind the Photograph: Dimitri Tiomkin and Max Steiner

Two emerging titans of film scoring, Dimitri Tiomkin and Max Steiner, appear together on the scoring stage podium for the Columbia Pictures film, Lost Horizon. With right arm raised, conductor Steiner faces the Columbia Studio Orchestra, with instruments at the … Read More…

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October 2024
From High Noon to High Ground, Dimitri Tiomkin would change the course of film music scoring

Dimitri Tiomkin’s unconventional scoring of High Noon, released in the summer of 1952, “in which Tex Ritter strums his guitar as a sort of narration while hero, heroine and villain, love, hate and kill,” began a trend in Hollywood to … Read More…

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September 2024
Behind the Photograph: Dimitri Tiomkin with Morris Stoloff

This undated publicity still shows musical director Morris Stoloff and composer Dimitri Tiomkin, pencil in hand, probably at a desk in Stoloff’s office on the Columbia lot in Hollywood reviewing a music score. The inches-thick stack of pages might be … Read More…

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

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

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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Dimitri Tiomkin Google search results

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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

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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July 2023
 Behind the Photograph: Dimitri Tiomkin and Olivia Patch visit the studio of artist Ilya Glazunov in Moscow, 1971

At first glance, it’s difficult to discern the occasion for this unusual image filled with Russian art and icons. One’s eye is drawn to the bearded old man on the left, possibly because of his outsize proportion. More on the … Read More…

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June 2023
 The True Story of How Dimitri Tiomkin’s Music Arranger and His Wife Created an International Brand with Mr & Mrs T® Bloody Mary Mix

by Warren M. Sherk PART 2 of 2 (Read: Part 1) Music was not the only creative outlet for Herb Taylor. At the same time he was arranging music for composer Dimitri Tiomkin, he and his wife June were perfecting … Read More…

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May 2023
 The True Story of How Dimitri Tiomkin’s Music Arranger and His Wife Created an International Brand with Mr & Mrs T® Bloody Mary Mix

by Warren M. Sherk PART 1 of 2 Do you have a bottle of Mr & Mrs T® Bloody Mary Mix in your refrigerator? (If not, I highly recommend it.) Perhaps you’re at an age where you remember when flight … Read More…

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April 2023
Recent recipients of the Dimitri Tiomkin Endowed Fund for Student Assistantships

The School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) at the University of Southern California (USC) continue to award the Dimitri Tiomkin Endowed Fund for Student Assistantships to qualified graduate students. Recent beneficiaries are Caleb Lee Smith, Caleb Fuerst Townsend, Cory R. Gorman, Jonathan Miles Breiner, and … Read More…

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