Tag Archives: Dimitri Tiomkin

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

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
Dimitri Tiomkin, Legends of American Music stamp in Washington, D.C.

Posted on May 22, 2022 by wsherk

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

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

December 2021
It’s a Wonderful Life issued by La-La Land Records

Posted on January 10, 2022 by wsherk

La-La Land Records and Paramount Pictures have teamed up to release a remastered CD of music by Dimitri Tiomkin from It’s a Wonderful Life in honor of the film’s 75th anniversary. The 75th anniversary edition is produced by Dan Goldwasser and restored and mastered by … Read More…

Tagged Dimitri Tiomkin, It’s a Wonderful Life, La-La Land Records

November 2021
Gottlieb Wallisch records Dimitri Tiomkin’s Créoles Blues

Posted on December 1, 2021 by wsherk

Pianist Gottlieb Wallisch includes a delightful rendition of the original piano version of Dimitri Tiomkin’s Créoles Blues on the Grand Piano label release, 20th Century Foxtrots, volume 3: Central and Eastern Europe. To show the influence of American jazz on … Read More…

Tagged American jazz, Créoles Blues, Dimitri Tiomkin, Gottlieb Wallisch

October 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Jorge Amado’s novel Home is the Sailor

Posted on November 3, 2021 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk During the summer of 1965 Dimitri Tiomkin plops down a $2,000 advance, based on a $10,000 option, for the right to film Jorge Amado’s novel Home is the Sailor. At the time, Jorge Amado (1921–2001), a … Read More…

Tagged adapted screenplays, Alfred A. Knopf, Anthony Quinn, Brazilian writers, David Gorton, Dimitri Tiomkin, Elliott Silverstein, Frank Pierson, Harriet de Onis, Home Is the Sailor, Inc., Irwin Margulies, Jorge Amado, Max Bercutt, Tiomkin Musical Enterprises, Warner Bros.

September 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold, part two

Posted on October 9, 2021 by wsherk

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 … Read More…

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

Posted on August 28, 2021 by wsherk

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 … Read More…

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

July 2021
More letters from Leonid Kinskey to Dimitri and Olivia Tiomkin

Posted on August 15, 2021 by wsherk

Leonid Kinskey, best known for portraying the character Sascha the bartender in the film Casablanca, sent three letters to Dimitri (“Dimochka”) and Olivia Tiomkin in March and April 1977. Similar to the letters previously profiled from 1978, these letters are filled … Read More…

Tagged Academy Awards acceptance speech, Anna Sten, Boris Ingster, Dimitri Tiomkin, Eugene Franke, George Korngold, Gloria Korngold, Leonid Kinskey, Olivia Douglas, The High and the Mighty

June 2021
A musical version of The Trials of Oscar Wilde by Dimitri Tiomkin

Posted on July 1, 2021 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk After producing the film and adapting the music for Tchaikovsky, Dimitri Tiomkin is ready for his next project and considers a musical version of the film, The Trials of Oscar Wilde. The Trials of Oscar Wilde … Read More…

Tagged Alan J. Lerner, Dimitri Tiomkin, films adapted to stage musicals, homosexuality, Ken Hughes, LGBTQ, Oscar Wilde, Tchaikovsky, The Trials of Oscar Wilde

May 2021
The Hermitage: Tiomkin’s proposed television spectacular

Posted on June 9, 2021 by wsherk

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 … Read More…

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