Archive
April 2024
Behind the Scenes: Did Lubitsch want to direct a Broadway musical in 1932?
March 2024
Remembering Orville Kelman (1922–2024)
February 2024
Elmer Bernstein, Film Composer: An Authorized Biography by Peter Bernstein
With Maestro in movie theaters and an Elmer Bernstein biography on bookstore shelves, two great American musicians of the 20th century with the surname Bernstein are on the minds of filmgoers and readers. Maestro is bringing awareness to Classical music and …
Tagged books, Dimitri Tiomkin, Elmer Bernstein, Peter Bernstein
January 2024
Behind the photograph: Nickolas Muray portrait of Dimitri Tiomkin
December 2023
Aniket Singh Solanki receives Dimitri Tiomkin Student Assistantship
November 2023
Happy 20th Anniversary, DimitriTiomkin.com
October 2023
Warner Archive releases Land of the Pharaohs on Blu-ray
September 2023
Warner Archive releases Angel Face and The Old Man and the Sea on Blu-ray
August 2023
Behold a Trending Composer! Maurice Jarre replaces first choice Dimitri Tiomkin for Fred Zinnemann’s film based on Killing a Mouse on Sunday
July 2023
Behind the Photograph: Dimitri Tiomkin and Olivia Patch visit the studio of artist Ilya Glazunov in Moscow, 1971
June 2023
The True Story of How Dimitri Tiomkin’s Music Arranger and His Wife Created an International Brand with Mr & Mrs T® Bloody Mary Mix
by Warren M. Sherk PART 2 of 2 (Read: Part 1) Music was not the only creative outlet for Herb Taylor. At the same time he was arranging music for composer Dimitri Tiomkin, he and his wife June were perfecting …
Tagged American Brands, American Tobacco Company, Art of Drinking (podcast), Bloody Mary Mix, Cadbury Schweppes, Cocktail Barbecue Sauce and Dunk, Dimitri Tiomkin, Herb Taylor, James B. Beam Distilling Co., Keurig Dr Pepper, Lee Taylor, Made from Scratch Taste, Margaret E. Gofield, Middlebar Mary, Mott's, Mr & Mrs "T", Mr and Mrs T, spicy tomato juice, Sydney S. Waller, Taylor Food Hobbies, Taylor Food Products, Taylor's Cocktail Barbecue Sauce, Warren Lee Taylor, Wayne A. Meland
May 2023
The True Story of How Dimitri Tiomkin’s Music Arranger and His Wife Created an International Brand with Mr & Mrs T® Bloody Mary Mix
by Warren M. Sherk PART 1 of 2 Do you have a bottle of Mr & Mrs T® Bloody Mary Mix in your refrigerator? (If not, I highly recommend it.) Perhaps you’re at an age where you remember when flight …
Tagged Abe Lyman, Albertina Rasch, arrangers, Bloody Mary Mix, Brunswick Recording Orchestra, California, Carthay Circle Theater, Chico Marx and His Ravellis, Claude Sweeten’s Orchestra, Dancing Arcade, Death Valley Days, Dimitri Tiomkin, E-Bob-O-Lee-Bop, Frankie Sorrels, George Herbert Taylor, Gloria King, Henry Glameyer, Henry Halstead, Herb Taylor, Herbert Meyerinck, Herbert Taylor, Herbert Taylor Orchestra, June Taylor, Max Dolin, Mr and Mrs T, Mutel, Paul Ash, Record Carrier Boys, Red Nichols, Stockton, Stockton Daily Record, Stockton Moose Lodge, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Rogue Song, Viola May Gofield, Warren Lee Taylor
April 2023
Recent recipients of the Dimitri Tiomkin Endowed Fund for Student Assistantships
The School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) at the University of Southern California (USC) continue to award the Dimitri Tiomkin Endowed Fund for Student Assistantships to qualified graduate students. Recent beneficiaries are Caleb Lee Smith, Caleb Fuerst Townsend, Cory R. Gorman, Jonathan Miles Breiner, and …
March 2023
Women’s History Month: Spotlight on Albertina Rasch
Albertina Rasch (1891-1967) was a remarkable woman. Ambitious and admired, a ballerina, business owner, choreographer, dancer, entrepreneur, furlana expert, groundbreaker, head of her own companies, immigrant, jazz-lover, Keith-Albee Circuit headliner, leader, modern dancer, naturalized citizen, observer, peculiarly American (in Dimitri …
February 2023
Editorial de la Universidad de Jaén releases book on the music of Dimitri Tiomkin by Lucía Pérez Garcia
January 2023
Tiomkin 2023
December 2022
Intrada releases Dimitri Tiomkin: Albertina Rasch & The Great American Ballet
November 2022
Newsy notes from friends
October 2022
Tiomkin as television personality
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, …
Tagged Dimitri Tiomkin, Television
September 2022
Dimitri Tiomkin at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
