2022

December 2022
Intrada releases Dimitri Tiomkin: Albertina Rasch & The Great American Ballet

Posted on December 10, 2022 by wsherk

Albertina Rasch and The Great American Ballet: Piano Music for Concert and Stage by Dimitri Tiomkin, featuring Lynda Cochrane at the piano, is now available from Intrada on compact disc. If we could name one great project conceived and completed during … Read More…

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November 2022
 Newsy notes from friends

Posted on November 27, 2022 by wsherk
Dimitri Tiomkin with Olivia Tiomkin

When Dimitri and Olivia Tiomkin were living in London during the 1970s, their lives were enriched with visits from friends and colleagues from around the world and, in their absence, with correspondence, often centered on the topic of Hollywood. The … Read More…

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October 2022
Tiomkin as television personality

Posted on November 25, 2022 by wsherk

As reported last month, when the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened in mid-city Los Angeles in September 2021, Dimitri Tiomkin’s 1955 Academy Awards acceptance speech was chosen for inclusion in the Academy Awards History gallery. The television broadcast of March 30, 1955, … Read More…

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September 2022
Dimitri Tiomkin at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Posted on September 11, 2022 by wsherk

Dimitri Tiomkin, a four-time Academy Award-winning composer, left behind an enviable musical legacy. When the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened in mid-city Los Angeles one year ago Tiomkin’s 1955 Academy Awards acceptance speech was chosen for inclusion in the … Read More…

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August 2022
The Day on Fire: James Ramsey Ullman and Dimitri Tiomkin

Posted on September 10, 2022 by wsherk

To create the biographical novel, The Day on Fire (1958), American writer, adventurer, and mountaineer James Ramsey Ullman at age 50 traveled to Europe and Africa to retrace the steps of the 19th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud. Upon his return, … Read More…

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July 2022
Statues in a Garden: Isabel Colegate and Dimitri Tiomkin

Posted on September 5, 2022 by wsherk

The first notice of Dimitri Tiomkin’s interest in making a film version of the Isabel Colegate novel, Statues in a Garden, dates from the fall of 1965. The novel, published in Great Britain the previous year, had made its way … Read More…

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June 2022
Dimitri Tiomkin and Madame President, on the road to producing films

Posted on July 4, 2022 by wsherk
Dimitri Tiomkin with Galina Oleinichenko

by Warren M. Sherk In the summer of 1962, Dimitri Tiomkin sent his friend and frequent collaborator, the producer and director Frank Capra, a story titled, “Madame President,” to read. In Capra’s rear-view mirror was Pocketful of Miracles (1961), a … Read More…

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May 2022
Editorial Universidad de Sevilla releases book on the music of Dimitri Tiomkin by Lucía Pérez Garcia

Posted on May 30, 2022 by wsherk

Música de cine en femenino: Las mujeres en la filmografía de Dimitri Tiomkin (The Female in Film Music: Women in the Filmography of Dimitri Tiomkin) by Lucía Pérez Garcia is now available from the University of Seville Press. Lucía Pérez Garcia … Read More…

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May 2022
Dimitri Tiomkin, Legends of American Music stamp in Washington, D.C.

Posted on May 22, 2022 by wsherk
U.S. postage stamp depicting Dimitri Tiomkin, 1999

The National Postage Museum in Washington, D.C., is one of a vast array of free museums in our nation’s capital that offer archival treasures documenting American history, art and culture. Visitors to the William H. Gross Stamp Gallery can contemplate … Read More…

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April 2022
Behind the Photograph: The Tiomkin Sessions

Posted on May 1, 2022 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk Peering over music spread out on stands, this musician’s eye view by photographer Derek Elley, captioned “Tiomkin Sessions” on back, perfectly captures the recording of music from Hollywood’s Golden Age in May 1978 at the Olympic … Read More…

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