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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
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 …
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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
It’s a Wonderful Life turns 75 again
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
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
May 2022
Editorial Universidad de Sevilla releases book on the music of Dimitri Tiomkin by Lucía Pérez Garcia
May 2022
Dimitri Tiomkin, Legends of American Music stamp in Washington, D.C.
April 2022
Behind the Photograph: The Tiomkin Sessions
March 2022
High Noon in Belfast
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 …
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
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
January 2022
Wise Music rents Tiomkin concert suites for Warner Bros. films through Zinfonia
