2019

Charles Gerhardt pictorial tribute available on Kindle

Posted on December 23, 2019 by wsherk

Looking for a last minute holiday gift? For less than US$10 you can purchase a Kindle ebook featuring conductor Charles Gerhardt and the National Philharmonic Orchestra photographed by Alain Littaye in 1975 during the RCA recording sessions for The Classic … Read More…

Tagged Charles Gerhardt, Dimitri Tiomkin, Kindle picture books, Last minute gifts, Lost Horizon, National Philharmonic Orchestra

December 2019
USC Cinematic Arts names Cassady, Grisom as Tiomkin Fund recipients

Posted on December 16, 2019 by wsherk

The School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) at the University of Southern California (USC) has selected Anna Cassady and James Grisom as the 2019-2020 recipients of the Dimitri Tiomkin Endowed Fund for Student Assistantships. James Grisom, Anna Cassady, Olivia Douglas at … Read More…

Tagged Anna Cassady, Dimitri Tiomkin Endowed Fund for Student Assistantships, James Grisom, Jingwei Li, Merawi Gerima, USC School of Cinematic Arts

November 2019
Four Tiomkin-scored films shot on location in Old Tucson

Posted on December 2, 2019 by wsherk

Old Tucson Studios have been at the center of location shooting in Southern Arizona for 90 years. Old Tucson Studios brochure Four Westerns with music by Dimitri Tiomkin were filmed at Old Tucson during the 1950s. Strange Lady in Town, … Read More…

Tagged Old Tucson Studios, Robert Shelton

October 2019
Behind the Photograph: Dimitri Tiomkin and Peggy Castle

Posted on November 9, 2019 by wsherk

A dapper Dimitri Tiomkin sports a wide grin as he places an LP on a turntable while actress Peggy Castle, looking like she’s dressed for an evening out, placidly looks on. This intriguing photograph is captioned, “Dimitri Tiomkin, distinguished composer, … Read More…

Tagged Behind the photograph, Dimitri Tiomkin, Peggy Castle

October 2019
We’re Back!!

Posted on November 9, 2019 by wsherk

A malicious malware attack brought down the Tiomkin website for two weeks in October. We are proud of the fact that we have posted news or articles each month since April 2003. That’s more than 15 years of consecutive monthly … Read More…

September 2019
Intrada records Dimitri Tiomkin’s Dial M for Murder music score

Posted on October 2, 2019 by wsherk

Dimitri Tiomkin’s music score for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller, Dial M for Murder, was recorded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) in Glasgow for release by Intrada Records. The company’s president, Douglass Fake, served as producer of the re-recording of … Read More…

Tagged Anna Stromberg, Dial M for Murder, Dimitri Tiomkin, Douglass Fake, Intrada Records, Olivia Douglas, Paul Talkington, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Simon Rhodes, William Stromberg

August 2019
The letters of Leonid Kinskey to Dimitri and Olivia Tiomkin

Posted on September 1, 2019 by wsherk

Leonid Kinskey, best known for portraying the character Sascha the bartender in the film Casablanca, sent a handful of letters to Dimitri (“Dimochka”) and Olivia Tiomkin in the Spring and Fall of 1978. [Scroll to the bottom of this post … Read More…

Tagged Boris Ingster, Dimitri Tiomkin, Helen Korngold, Leonid Kinskey, Salka Viertel

July 2019
The Sheet Music of Dimitri Tiomkin

Posted on July 21, 2019 by wsherk

by Phil Lehman In his illustrious career, Dimitri Tiomkin wrote more than 120 scores for films beginning with RESURRECTION in 1929 through TCHAIKOVSKY in 1971. In addition to composing music, Tiomkin wrote many songs created as an intricate part of his music … Read More…

Tagged Dimitri Tiomkin, film songs, movie themes, Phil Lehman, sheet music

June 2019
Research sheds new light on Michael Khariton and Dimitri Tiomkin

Posted on July 1, 2019 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk In June 2006, this website posted an article on Michael Khariton and Dimitri Tiomkin that documented the intersection of their pianistic careers, taking them from Berlin to Paris to New York during the Roaring Twenties. Now, … Read More…

Tagged Albertina Rasch, Brownell Carr, Dimitri Tiomkin, Eloise Alberta Henline, Eloise Gilbert, Eloise Greenburg, Gideon Remez, Isabella Ginor, Khariton Duo, Lev Khariton, Lionel Grow Tompkins, Michael Kahriton [sic], Michael Khariton, Mikhail Chariton, Mikhail Khariton, Yuli Khariton

May 2019
The True Experience I’ll Never Forget by Dimitri Tiomkin

Posted on June 2, 2019 by wsherk

This apparently unpublished manuscript—reproduced in its entirety below—on perfection in music by composer Dimitri Tiomkin is centered around an anecdote about composer-pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff. But film music enthusiasts and those in cinema studies may find the material Tiomkin wrote about … Read More…

Tagged Dimitri Tiomkin, High Noon, Marie Tiomkin, Portrait of Jennie, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Toni Strassman, You can do it

April 2019
Tiomkin scores fêted festival film gratis

Posted on May 6, 2019 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk In 1962, Dimitri Tiomkin was so deeply sold on the talents of the twenty-something year-old-artists that filmed Without Each Other, he made a personal effort to bring them to the attention of Hollywood. And he scored … Read More…

Tagged Allen Klein, Ann Harris, Brud Talbot, Denys McCoy, Dimitri Tiomkin, Dimitri Tiomkin Collection, Force of Impulse, III Task Pictures, Jack Halloran Singers, Linda Bement, Michael Dunn, Ned Washington, Pathe Laboratories, Pathe-America, Patrick Russ, Paul Sylbert, Peter Gayle, Pity Me Not, Saul Swimmer, Sutton Pictures, The Boy Who Owned a Elephant, Three Task Pictures, Tony Anthony, Without Each Other

March 2019
Why did Dimitri Tiomkin bow out of scoring two Robert Aldrich films?

Posted on April 1, 2019 by wsherk

Part 2 of 2. By Warren M. Sherk In late December 1960 when Dimitri Tiomkin withdrew from scoring the Robert Aldrich film Day of the Gun—the working title for The Last Sunset—the explanation given in the press was Tiomkin’s partnership with Cinerama … Read More…

Tagged Dimitri Tiomkin, How the West Was Won, Robert Aldrich, Sodom and Gommorah

Nasrollah Davoodi lectures on Dimitri Tiomkin in Tehran, February 14th, 2019

Posted on February 11, 2019 by wsherk

Nasrollah Davoodi, an Iranian composer and film music researcher, will deliver a lecture on Dimitri Tiomkin at the Niavaran Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran on Thursday, February 14th, 2019, at 5 pm. “Dimitri Tiomkin: A Russian Composer Who Created the Most American Film … Read More…

Tagged Dimitri Tiomkin, Lectures, Nasrollah Davoodi

January 2019
Behind the photograph: Dimitri Tiomkin in Moscow

Posted on February 4, 2019 by wsherk

This portrait of Dimitri Tiomkin bundled up and dressed in a fur-lined coat was taken in snowbound Moscow on one of several trips by the composer and producer to the USSR in 1965 and 1966. What drew Tiomkin to Moscow during the … Read More…

Tagged Behind the photograph, Dimitri Tiomkin, international coproduction, Mosfilm, Tchaikovsky

2019

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