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…

Tagged Albertina Rasch, Dimitri Tiomkin, Dimitri Tiomkin Collection, Douglass Fake, Frank K. DeWald, Great American Ballet, Intrada Records, Kay Marshall, Lynda Cochrane, Patrick Russ, Roger Feigelson

November 2022
Newsy notes from friends

Posted on November 27, 2022 by wsherk

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…

Tagged Bill Schaefer, C. R. Foster Kemp, Cecil Foster Kemp, Cheang Park Chew, Dimitri Tiomkin, G. S. Foster Kemp, George Samuel Foster Kemp, International Cinematographic Institute of the League of Nations, Stanley Musgrove

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…

Tagged Dimitri Tiomkin, Television

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…

Tagged Academy Awards, Academy Awards acceptance speech, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Dimitri Tiomkin, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971, The High and the Mighty

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…

Tagged adapted screenplays, Dimitri Tiomkin, Eugene Frenke, French poets, Harold Matson, Jack Clayton, James Rmsey Ullman, Leah Wycliffe, Rimbaud (life of), The Day on Fire [novel]

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…

Tagged A. D. Peters & Co., adapted screenplays, Anthony Jones, Dimitri Tiomkin, Elizabeth Taylor, Gerry Blattner, Harold Matson, Isabel Colegate, John Heyman, literary agencies, Max Bercutt, Midford Castle, Seven Arts Productions, Statues in a Garden, Warner Bros., World Film Services

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…

Tagged Beverly Lawrence, Dimitri Tiomkin, Ferris Mack, Frank C. Peterson, Frank Capra, Madame President, Peter Gilman, Ted Loeff

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…

Tagged Ángel Justo Estebaranz, Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, Lucía Pérez Garcia, music and women in cinema

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…

Tagged Dimitri Tiomkin, Legends of American Music, National Postage Museum, Postage stamps, Wiliam H. Gross Gallery

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…

Tagged Behind the photograph, Derek Elley, Dimitri Tiomkin, Elmer Bernstein, Film Music Collection, Olympic Studios Barnes

March 2022
High Noon in Belfast

Posted on March 21, 2022 by wsherk

Director Kenneth Branaugh’s introspective film on his childhood, Belfast, includes two scenes from High Noon (1952) and subsequently uses the film’s title song, “Do Not Forsake Me,” sung by Tex Ritter several times. Dimitri Tiomkin received Academy Awards for both … Read More…

Tagged Academy Awards, Belfast, Dimitri Tiomkin, High Noon

February 2022
A to Z Guide to Dimitri Tiomkin music publications and rentals, research, and rights clearance

Posted on March 12, 2022 by wsherk

Compiled by Patrick Russ Dimitri Tiomkin owned his own publishing company, Volta Music; however for most of his early career he composed film music under work-for-hire agreements for a number of film studios and companies, such as Allied Artists, Columbia … Read More…

Tagged Alfred Publishing, Bourne Music, British Film Institute, concert suites, Dimitri Tiomkin, Dimitri Tiomkin Collection, Faber Music, Greenberg Traurig, Hal Leonard, IMG Artists, Movies in Concert, Paramount Pictures, Sony Music, Universal Music Publishing, USC Cinematic Arts Library, Volta Music, Warner Bros. Archive, Wise Music, Zinfonia

January 2022
Wise Music rents Tiomkin concert suites for Warner Bros. films through Zinfonia

Posted on February 20, 2022 by wsherk

Dimitri Tiomkin publicity portrait by Bert Six

Wise Music now rents Dimitri Tiomkin concert suites for Warner Bros. films administered by Warner/Chappell. The Wise Music Classical Rental Libraries is a leading commercial music library and performance materials are shipped all over the world. Wise recommends you use … Read More…

Tagged concert suites, Dimitri Tiomkin, film music in concert, Newzik, Warner Bros., Wise Music, Zinfonia