Feature articles
December 2025
Dimitri Tiomkin’s steel baton, brought to you by U.S. Steel
July 2025
Tiomkin’s Tchaikovsky: the film and music
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
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
August 2022
The Day on Fire: James Ramsey Ullman and Dimitri Tiomkin
July 2022
Statues in a Garden: Isabel Colegate and Dimitri Tiomkin
June 2022
Dimitri Tiomkin and Madame President, on the road to producing films
February 2022
A to Z Guide to Dimitri Tiomkin music publications and rentals, research, and rights clearance
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 …
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
September 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold, part two
READ Part one: August 2021 Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold A new approach to scoring A composer “who scores a film should be involved in everything about it from the very beginning,” maintains Dimitri Tiomkin to a …
Tagged A.R. Rahman, Ballad of Jim West, Carl Foreman, CBS television music, Columbia Pictures, Dimitri Tiomkin, Highroad Productions, José Feliciano, Julie Newmar, Larry Stanto, Mackenna's Gold, Old Turkey Buzzard, Ole Turkey Buzzard, Paul Francis Webster, Pupi Hurtado, Quincy Jones, RCA soundtracks, Rick Jarrard, Robert S. Ferguson, Sidney E. Cohn, The Wild, Tiomkin Musical Enterprises, Wild West
August 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold
by Warren M. Sherk As 1964 draws to a close, Dimitri Tiomkin secures an option from American novelist Will Henry for the motion picture rights to his Western novel, Mackenna’s Gold, published by Random House the year before. With a penchant …
Tagged adapted screenplays, books into film, Carl Foreman, Chuck [Charles] Braverman, Columbia Pictures, David MacDougall, Dimitri Tiomkin, George Lucas, Gregory Peck, Guy Endore, Harry E. Sokolov, Henry Wilson Allen, Highroad Productions, J. David Wyles, Mackenna's Gold, Old Turkey Buzzard, Ole Turkey Buzzard, Open Road Films Limited, runaway production, Sidney E. Cohn, Super Panavision, Technicolor, Will Henry
June 2021
A musical version of The Trials of Oscar Wilde by Dimitri Tiomkin
May 2021
The Hermitage: Tiomkin’s proposed television spectacular
by Warren Sherk During Dimitri Tiomkin’s decades long friendship with broadcaster Lowell Thomas, one of the more unusual projects he pitched was a television spectacular on the Hermitage Museum in Russia. READ MORE: The Lively Letters of Dimitri Tiomkin and Lowell …
Tagged B. Yakoviev, Dimitri Tiomkin, filming in the Soviet Union, Gregori Ivanovich Britikoff, Hermitage Museum, Heroes and Hermitage, Jack Gordean, Leonard “Buzz” Blair, Lowell Thomas, Michael Burke, Milton Fruchtman, Norman Felton, Odyssey Productions, State Hermitage Museum, Tchaikovsky, The Hermitage, V. Sofinsky
Feature articles
Follow these links to feature-length articles on Dimitri Tiomkin and his music. Dimitri Tiomkin and the Hollywood Bowl Dimitri Tiomkin’s music has long been performed at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Few can match Tiomkin’s enviable record at the …
November 2020
Who wrote the music for A Little Racketeer? (part 2)
by Warren M. Sherk PART 2 of 2 (read Part 1) On Broadway, 44th Street Theatre, January 18-February 27, 1932 When the show finally opens on Broadway the initial reviews are good, including this acknowledgment of the composer, “Dimitri Tiomkin …
Tagged A Little Racketeer, Albertina Rasch, Albertina Rasch Dancers, Allen Boretz, Ballyhoo, Brazilian Suite, Danger If I Love You, Die Rakete, Dimitri Tiomkin, Edmund Eysler, Edward Eliscu, Emil Newman, Harry Clarke, Haskell Brown, I Have a Run in My Stocking, Jerry Rogers, Lewis Alter, Lou Alter, Maurice Rubens, Maury Rubens, Nicholas van Pelt, Philco Radio, Philco Transitone, Queenie Smith, Rio de Janeiro, Southern Belles, Starry Skies, Starry Sky, When that Band Plays
March 2007
Fascinating Rhythms: Dimitri Tiomkin, African American Music, and Early Jazz
by Warren M. Sherk When one considers the music of Dimitri Tiomkin, jazz probably is not the first thing that springs to mind. The fact remains, however obscured by the passage of time, that jazz had a significant influence on …
Tagged African American music, African American music influence on Tiomkin, American Federation of Musicians’ Local 767, Benny Carter, Calvin Jackson, early jazz, Florence Cadrez “Tiny” Brantley, Hall Johnson, Jester Hairston, Kitty White, Mahalia Jackson, Nat “King” Cole, Russell Wooding, William Grant Still
May 2005
Wedding music by Dimitri Tiomkin
The arrival of summer brings so many traditions: baseball, beach picnics…and the peal of wedding bells. Dimitri Tiomkin scored the onscreen union between Grace Kelly and Gary Cooper in High Noon, but he also wrote music for the extravagant, real-life …
Tagged Wedding music