2005
December 2005
It’s a Wonderful Life from San Pedro to Pasadena
Southern California residents will have the opportunity to see and hear Frank Capra’s classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” throughout this holiday season. The Golden State Pops Orchestra will perform Dimitri Tiomkin’s music from the film at their home venue, the …
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November 2005
Varese Sarabande to release The High and Mighty
Varese Sarabande will release a new digital recording that includes music from Dimitri Tiomkin’s score for The High and Mighty on compact disc on November 22. The aerial-themed disc titled, “The High and the Mighty: A Century of Flight,” opens …
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September 2005
Top Ten finish for Tiomkin at AFI
Dimitri Tiomkin’s score for High Noon placed 10th on the list of the American Film Institute’s top 25 all-time favorite film scores as voted by filmmakers, composers, and historians. The announcement came during a special performance concert, “The Big Picture—AFI’s …
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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 Bowl, including his diverse roles as composer, conductor, and pianist over the past eight decades. The earliest performances, …
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September 2005
Hollywood Bowl fireworks finale features Tiomkin music
A suite from Dimitri Tiomkin’s score for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Dial M for Murder was part of the traditional season-ending fireworks spectacular at the Hollywood Bowl on September 16, 17, and 18. Olivia Tiomkin Douglas and Patrick Russ attended the …
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August 2005
Tadlow Music to release The Guns of Navarone recording
Tadlow Music is scheduled to release a new digital recording of Dimitri Tiomkin’s score for The Guns of Navarone on compact disc in September. The 1961 film, written and produced by Carl Foreman, stars Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony …
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July 2005
Paramount Home Entertainment to release The High and the Mighty
June 2005
The Negro Soldier to screen in Washington, D.C.
The Negro Soldier, a 1944 World War II Army documentary supervised by Frank Capra, will screen on June 17 at the National Archives in conjunction with the exhibit Close Up in Black: African American Film Posters. The exhibit, curated from …
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May 2005
Wedding music by Dimitri Tiomkin
The arrival of summer brings so many traditions: baseball, beach picnics…and the peal of wedding bells. Dimitri Tiomkin scored the onscreen union between Grace Kelly and Gary Cooper in High Noon, but he also wrote music for the extravagant, real-life …
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March 2005
Red River soundtrack reissue available from Screen Archives Entertainment
March 2005
The Thing soundtrack released by Film Score Monthly Golden Age Classics
January 2005
Hal Leonard Corporation to represent Tiomkin’s Volta Music catalog
The Hal Leonard Corporation (HLC) and Volta Music have entered into an agreement allowing the former to publish Volta-controlled music compositions in sheet music and songbook form. With this venture, Olivia Tiomkin Douglas hopes to make the Tiomkin catalog, particularly …
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