Author Archives: wsherk
November 2021
Gottlieb Wallisch records Dimitri Tiomkin’s Créoles Blues
October 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Jorge Amado’s novel Home is the Sailor
September 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold, part two
READ Part one: August 2021 Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold A new approach to scoring A composer “who scores a film should be involved in everything about it from the very beginning,” maintains Dimitri Tiomkin to a …
Tagged A.R. Rahman, Ballad of Jim West, Carl Foreman, CBS television music, Columbia Pictures, Dimitri Tiomkin, Highroad Productions, José Feliciano, Julie Newmar, Larry Stanto, Mackenna's Gold, Old Turkey Buzzard, Ole Turkey Buzzard, Paul Francis Webster, Pupi Hurtado, Quincy Jones, RCA soundtracks, Rick Jarrard, Robert S. Ferguson, Sidney E. Cohn, The Wild, Tiomkin Musical Enterprises, Wild West
August 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold
by Warren M. Sherk As 1964 draws to a close, Dimitri Tiomkin secures an option from American novelist Will Henry for the motion picture rights to his Western novel, Mackenna’s Gold, published by Random House the year before. With a penchant …
Tagged adapted screenplays, books into film, Carl Foreman, Chuck [Charles] Braverman, Columbia Pictures, David MacDougall, Dimitri Tiomkin, George Lucas, Gregory Peck, Guy Endore, Harry E. Sokolov, Henry Wilson Allen, Highroad Productions, J. David Wyles, Mackenna's Gold, Old Turkey Buzzard, Ole Turkey Buzzard, Open Road Films Limited, runaway production, Sidney E. Cohn, Super Panavision, Technicolor, Will Henry
July 2021
More letters from Leonid Kinskey to Dimitri and Olivia Tiomkin
June 2021
A musical version of The Trials of Oscar Wilde by Dimitri Tiomkin
May 2021
The Hermitage: Tiomkin’s proposed television spectacular
by Warren Sherk During Dimitri Tiomkin’s decades long friendship with broadcaster Lowell Thomas, one of the more unusual projects he pitched was a television spectacular on the Hermitage Museum in Russia. READ MORE: The Lively Letters of Dimitri Tiomkin and Lowell …
Tagged B. Yakoviev, Dimitri Tiomkin, filming in the Soviet Union, Gregori Ivanovich Britikoff, Hermitage Museum, Heroes and Hermitage, Jack Gordean, Leonard “Buzz” Blair, Lowell Thomas, Michael Burke, Milton Fruchtman, Norman Felton, Odyssey Productions, State Hermitage Museum, Tchaikovsky, The Hermitage, V. Sofinsky
April 2021
The extra-musical fame of films scored by Dimitri Tiomkin
March 2021
Behind the Photograph: Robert Russell Bennett presents a special award to composer Dimitri Tiomkin
Feature articles
Follow these links to feature-length articles on Dimitri Tiomkin and his music. Dimitri Tiomkin and the Hollywood Bowl Dimitri Tiomkin’s music has long been performed at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Few can match Tiomkin’s enviable record at the …
February 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin underscores race conflict, mob violence, and redemption in the 1951 film The Well
January 2021
International Film Music Critics honor the re-recording of Tiomkin’s Dial M for Murder score
November 2020
Who wrote the music for A Little Racketeer? (part 2)
by Warren M. Sherk PART 2 of 2 (read Part 1) On Broadway, 44th Street Theatre, January 18-February 27, 1932 When the show finally opens on Broadway the initial reviews are good, including this acknowledgment of the composer, “Dimitri Tiomkin …
Tagged A Little Racketeer, Albertina Rasch, Albertina Rasch Dancers, Allen Boretz, Ballyhoo, Brazilian Suite, Danger If I Love You, Die Rakete, Dimitri Tiomkin, Edmund Eysler, Edward Eliscu, Emil Newman, Harry Clarke, Haskell Brown, I Have a Run in My Stocking, Jerry Rogers, Lewis Alter, Lou Alter, Maurice Rubens, Maury Rubens, Nicholas van Pelt, Philco Radio, Philco Transitone, Queenie Smith, Rio de Janeiro, Southern Belles, Starry Skies, Starry Sky, When that Band Plays
October 2020
Who wrote the music for A Little Racketeer?
by Warren M. Sherk PART 1 of 2 “A Little Racketeer (1932) is notable only because composer Dimitri Tiomkin contributed several melodies.” —Ken Bloom, The Routledge Guide to Broadway, 2006 Dimitri Tiomkin’s contribution to the Broadway musical revue is notable; …
Tagged A Little Racketeer, Albertina Rasch, Albertina Rasch Dancers, Ballyhoo, Brazilian Suite, Chevrolet Coupe, Chevrolet Six, Dimitri Tiomkin, Edward Eliscu, Friedrich Kalbfuß, Grace Hayes, Harry Clarke, Harry Revel, Haskell Brown, Henry Sullivan, I Have a Run in My Stocking, I'll Ballyhoo You, J. J. Shubert, Lew Alter, Lita Grey Chaplin, Louis Alter, Mack Gordon, Panne des Herzens, Paul Ash, Paul Cadieux, Queenie Smith, Richard Wilde, Rio de Janeiro, Shubert Organization, Starry Skies, Starry Sky, The Little Racketeer, Tom and Wendy Wonder
September 2020
Behind the Letter: Carmen Coppola asks Dimitri Tiomkin for work
August 2020
Enhancements to DimitriTiomkin.com
Enhancements are coming to the Dimitri Tiomkin website! Since going live in April 2003, this site has grown continuously both in content and users. While we are proud of the immense resources we have made available online to users around …
Tagged Amy Stone, MOWA Design Group
July 2020
Dimitri Tiomkin concert suites from Friendly Persuasion and Guns of Navarone
June 2020
Behind the Photograph: Dimitri Tiomkin’s Outstanding Western Musical Composition of 1960
Nevada lieutenant governor and former actor Rex Bell (holding trophy) presents Bill Hill, representing Dimitri Tiomkin and Columbia Records, with a Western Heritage Award trophy for Outstanding Western Musical Composition of 1960. The Alamo soundtrack by Dimitri Tiomkin took top …
Tagged #HashtagTheCowboy, Behind the photograph, Bill Hill, Charles Russell, Columbia Records, Dimitri Tiomkin, Miller-Jackson Company, Nat Perrin, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, Patrick Wayne, Rex Bell, Roy. J. Turner, Sheb Wooley, Skirvin Tower Hotel, Stephen L. R. McNichols, The Alamo : motion picture, Tim Tiller, Western Heritage Awards