2017
Cease Fire available on DVD, November 2017
Kino Classics has released Cease Fire on DVD. The 1953 film—directed by Owen Crump, produced by Hal Wallis, and filmed in 3-D—features a music score by Dimitri Tiomkin. READ our feature article: Cease Fire: High Noon in Korea BUY (Amazon): Cease Fire
Tagged Cease Fire, Dimitri Tiomkin, DVD/Blu-ray, Owen Crump
December 2017
Armed Forces song folio, December 1956
At the annual 4th Avenue Winter Street Fair in Tucson, Arizona this month, we came across this interesting publication in a thrift shop. The December 1956 issue of the Armed Forces Song Folio contains two songs by Dimitri Tiomkin. The publication …
Tagged Armed Forces
November 2017
Tiomkin award goes to Merawi Gerima
Sony Home Video releases Lost Horizon, 80th anniversary edition, October 3, 2017
Sony Home Video recently released Lost Horizon on Blu-ray to commemorate the film’s 80th anniversary. The disc, accompanied by a 24-page Digibook with an essay by film historian Jeremy Arnold, includes one minute of recently unearthed footage from a worn …
Tagged DVD/Blu-ray, Lost Horizon, Sony Home Video
October 2017
I Hear You Calling Me: Dimitri Tiomkin’s attempt to film the story of Irish tenor John McCormack
Today, Monday, October 30, 2017, is a national holiday in Ireland. October Bank Holiday, or Lá Saoire Bainc (Deireadh Fómhair), celebrates Irish culture, including music. In the 1950s, Dimitri Tiomkin tried to bring the story of Irish tenor John McCormack …
Tagged John McCormack
September 2017
Michael Feinstein and the Pasadena Pops premiere Mars Ballet
Michael Feinstein and the Pasadena Pops performed the concert premiere of Dimitri Tiomkin’s “Mars Ballet” on August 19 at an evening concert in the Pops summer venue. The “Gershwin & Friends” concert at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical …
Tagged Mars Ballet, Michael Feinstein, Pasadena Pops
August 2017
Tiomkin music for concert performance
The performance of film music in concert continues to grow. One need only consult the Concert List compiled by Movies in Concert to see the daily list of classic and contemporary film music being performed around the world. For those …
July 2017
Learn more about Dimitri Tiomkin
Two books on Dimitri Tiomkin are great starting points to learn more about the composer’s life and music. Tiomkin’s autobiography, Please Don’t Hate Me, published in 1959, contains a first-hand account of his early years in Russia, on making his way …
June 14, 2017
Prometheus Records and Tadlow Music release the complete score for Duel in the Sun
May 2017
Media History Digital Library sheds light on Dimitri Tiomkin
April 2017
Hole in the Rock and Panic Button: Dimitri Tiomkin and Stephen Longstreet cross paths in the early 1960s
March 2017
Pandora, the Flying Dutchman, and Tiomkin?
February 2017
Dimitri Tiomkin publicity portraits
In last month’s Behind the photograph: Dimitri Tiomkin portrait by Gyenes we took a look at a picture of the composer taken by a master photographer in Spain. This month we examine more portraits from Tiomkin’s lengthy career. In Hollywood, the standard …
Dimitri Tiomkin Anthology featured on Mark! My Words on Music, February 2017
Dr. Mark Evans, author of Soundtrack: The Music of the Movies, has posted a video review of the Dimitri Tiomkin Anthology on YouTube. His program, “Mark! My Words,” can be found on radio and television and in-print as a newspaper column. In the six-minute …
Tagged Dimitri Tiomkin Anthology
January 2017
Behind the photograph: Dimitri Tiomkin portrait by Gyenes
This portrait of Dimitri Tiomkin in black-tie formal, arms crossed, and smiling was taken by Gyenes at his studio in Madrid. The Hungarian-born photographer, Gyenes János, spent most of his life working in Spain as Juan Gyenes (1912-1995). Gyenes, now …
Tagged Behind the photograph, Gyenes