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January 2025
Behind the Photograph: Dimitri Tiomkin and Max Steiner

Posted on February 2, 2025 by wsherk
Lost Horizon recording session, circa 1936-1937

Two emerging titans of film scoring, Dimitri Tiomkin and Max Steiner, appear together on the scoring stage podium for the Columbia Pictures film, Lost Horizon. With right arm raised, conductor Steiner faces the Columbia Studio Orchestra, with instruments at the … Read More…

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December 2024
Intrada releases The Old Man and the Sea soundtrack

Posted on December 2, 2024 by wsherk

Looking for the perfect holiday gift or stocking stuffer for that special person who loves film music? Check out the brand-new recording of Dimitri Tiomkin‘s 1958 Oscar-winning score to The Old Man and the Sea presented by Intrada Records and Volta … Read More…

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November 2024
Where to see and hear IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE!

Posted on November 30, 2024 by wsherk
It's a Wonderful Life one sheet, US

It’s that time of year again and the iconic holiday film, It’s a Wonderful Life, will be back in theaters in December, screening like never before! Experience the film with an audience and enjoy the music score by Dimitri Tiomkin. … Read More…

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October 2024
From High Noon to High Ground, Dimitri Tiomkin would change the course of film music scoring

Posted on November 24, 2024 by wsherk

Dimitri Tiomkin’s unconventional scoring of High Noon, released in the summer of 1952, “in which Tex Ritter strums his guitar as a sort of narration while hero, heroine and villain, love, hate and kill,” began a trend in Hollywood to … Read More…

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September 2024
Behind the Photograph: Dimitri Tiomkin with Morris Stoloff

Posted on September 29, 2024 by wsherk
Dimitri Tiomkin with Morris Stoloff, circa 1936

This undated publicity still shows musical director Morris Stoloff and composer Dimitri Tiomkin, pencil in hand, probably at a desk in Stoloff’s office on the Columbia lot in Hollywood reviewing a music score. The inches-thick stack of pages might be … Read More…

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August 2024
A tribute to soundtrack producer Douglass Fake (1952-2024)

Posted on August 18, 2024 by wsherk

Legendary, supportive, genuinely enthusiastic and insightful. A handful of words referring to Intrada Records soundtrack producer Douglass Fake after his passing in July that only partially convey the magnitude of his reach and influence on a worldwide community of film … Read More…

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July 2024
John Wayne: An American Experience at Fort Worth Stockyards

Posted on July 15, 2024 by wsherk

John Wayne: An American Experience at Fort Worth Stockyards is worthy of a visit if you’re in the vicinity. Dimitri Tiomkin and John Wayne share a long history of moviemaking, including quintessential Westerns: Red River (1948), Rio Bravo (1959), The … Read More…

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June 2024
USC Doheny Library honors Ned Comstock (1955–2024)

Posted on June 27, 2024 by wsherk

Family, friends, and colleagues gathered on May 17 on a sunny Friday afternoon in Los Angeles at the Doheny Library on the campus of the University of Southern California (USC) to honor the life and memory of Ned Comstock. After … Read More…

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May 2024
Intrada releases Night Passage soundtrack

Posted on May 17, 2024 by wsherk

Intrada Records has released the world premiere of the complete motion picture score composed by Dimitri Tiomkin for Night Passage. Shipping now, the CD features Tiomkin’s original music for the 1958 Universal Pictures Western starring James Stewart. Listen to audio … Read More…

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April 2024
Behind the Scenes: Did Lubitsch want to direct a Broadway musical in 1932?

Posted on May 12, 2024 by wsherk

Ernst Lubitsch, the German-born American film director, producer, writer, and actor, is best known for his sophisticated, elegant, and witty romantic comedies, often starring Pola Negri, Greta Garbo, and Jeanette MacDonald. When Lubitsch first landed in New York from Bremen, … Read More…

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March 2024
Remembering Orville Kelman (1922–2024)

Posted on April 28, 2024 by wsherk

Orville Kelman, accountant, world traveler, role model, and mentor, passed away on February 23, 2024, in Thousand Oaks, California. Kelman served as the longtime accountant for Volta Music, Dimitri Tiomkin’s music publishing company incorporated in California in 1957. Olivia Tiomkin … Read More…

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February 2024
Elmer Bernstein, Film Composer: An Authorized Biography by Peter Bernstein

Posted on March 23, 2024 by wsherk

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 … Read More…

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January 2024
Behind the photograph: Nickolas Muray portrait of Dimitri Tiomkin

Posted on March 2, 2024 by wsherk
Dimitri Tiomkin portrait by Nickolas Muray, 1928

In the thick of his career as a concert pianist based in New York, Dimitri Tiomkin sat in the studio of photographer Nickolas Muray in the Park Central Hotel at 56th Street and 7th Avenue, a stone’s throw from Central … Read More…

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December 2023
Aniket Singh Solanki receives Dimitri Tiomkin Student Assistantship

Posted on January 7, 2024 by wsherk

Aniket Singh Solanki is the recipient of the Dimitri Tiomkin Endowed Fund for Student Assistantships from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California (USC) for the academic year, 2023-2024. READ (USC press release pdf): Tiomkin – … Read More…

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November 2023
Happy 20th Anniversary, DimitriTiomkin.com

Posted on November 21, 2023 by wsherk

As anniversaries go, 20 seems to be a respectable number. When this website launched in 2003, Google was turning five years old and the Internet itself was merely twenty. The Dimitri Tiomkin official website celebrates 20 years! Our first post, … Read More…

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October 2023
Warner Archive releases Land of the Pharaohs on Blu-ray

Posted on November 11, 2023 by wsherk
Land of the Pharaohs one sheet, US

The Blu-ray release of Land of the Pharaohs on Blu-ray, on July 18, brings to three the number of Warner Bros. films scored by Dimitri Tiomkin available in the Warner Archive Collection this year. READ: Warner Archive releases Angel Face … Read More…

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September 2023
Warner Archive releases Angel Face and The Old Man and the Sea on Blu-ray

Posted on November 5, 2023 by wsherk
Angel Face Style B half sheet poster

The Warner Archive Collection releases of Angel Face and The Old Man and the Sea on June 27, 2023, bring two beautifully restored classic studio films scored by Dimitri Tiomkin to the home market on Blu-ray. Angel Face Originally presented … Read More…

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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

Posted on September 24, 2023 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk Maurice Jarre provided the music score for director Fred Zinnemann’s 1964 film, Behold a Pale Horse; however, we recently learned that Zinnemann’s first choice was Dimitri Tiomkin. Even before the production was announced in the press, … Read More…

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July 2023
 Behind the Photograph: Dimitri Tiomkin and Olivia Patch visit the studio of artist Ilya Glazunov in Moscow, 1971

Posted on August 27, 2023 by wsherk

At first glance, it’s difficult to discern the occasion for this unusual image filled with Russian art and icons. One’s eye is drawn to the bearded old man on the left, possibly because of his outsize proportion. More on the … Read More…

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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

Posted on July 4, 2023 by wsherk

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 … Read More…

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