Tag Archives: High Noon

May 2026
High Noon in Boston: The Pops play “Clock, Showdown and Finale”

Posted on May 8, 2026 by Bill Levay

The Boston Pops, led by Keith Lockhart, will perform Dimitri Tiomkin’s “Clock, Showdown and Finale” from the film High Noon on May 20 and 21 at Symphony Hall. The “Clock, Showdown and Finale,” as arranged by Christopher Palmer and Patrick … Read More…

Tagged Boston Pops, High Noon

October 2025
Tiomkin at MOMI

Posted on October 2, 2025 by wsherk

The Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) is one of only a few museums in the world dedicated to the art, history, and science of motion pictures. It’s must-see on the East coast as is the Academy Museum of Motion … Read More…

Tagged Dimitri Tiomkin, Giant, High Noon, Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI)

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

Tiomkin tune lands at number 25 on AFI’s 100 YEARS…100 SONGS

Posted on March 6, 2020 by wsherk

The Dimitri Tiomkin song “Do Not Forsake Me” from the 1952 film High Noon ranks number 25 on the AFI’s 100 YEARS…100 SONGS list. The American Film Institute is known worldwide for its film lists, film conservatory, and meticulously researched … Read More…

Tagged AFI, American Film Institute, Dimitri Tiomkin, Do Not Forsake Me, High Noon

May 2019
The True Experience I’ll Never Forget by Dimitri Tiomkin

Posted on June 2, 2019 by wsherk

This apparently unpublished manuscript—reproduced in its entirety below—on perfection in music by composer Dimitri Tiomkin is centered around an anecdote about composer-pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff. But film music enthusiasts and those in cinema studies may find the material Tiomkin wrote about … Read More…

Tagged Dimitri Tiomkin, High Noon, Marie Tiomkin, Portrait of Jennie, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Toni Strassman, You can do it

A Symphonic Night at the Movies: High Noon, with the Utah Symphony, February 17, 2018

Posted on February 20, 2018 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk An iconic film, High Noon. An orchestra, the Utah Symphony, that has been performing in the West since 1940. For “A Symphonic Night at the Movies” the film and orchestra came together as one at Maurice Abravanel … Read More…

Tagged Films in concert, High Noon, High Noon in Concert, screenings, Symphonic Night at the Movies, Utah Symphony

February 2018
Film in Concert: High Noon

Posted on February 4, 2018 by wsherk

The Utah Symphony will perform Dimitri Tiomkin’s original score for High Noon live to film on Saturday, February 17, at 7 p.m. in Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City. Tickets: Utah Symphony High Noon is a gripping Western morality play … Read More…

Tagged Films in concert, High Noon, High Noon in Concert, John Goberman, Patrick Russ, Symphonic Night at the Movies, Utah Symphony

September 2013
Cease Fire: High Noon in Korea

Posted on September 29, 2013 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk (Fifth in an occasional series on Tiomkin’s lesser-known film scores) “The dramatic story you are about to see was actually filmed on the battlefields of Korea,” declares the opening title card for Cease Fire, a 1953 … Read More…

Tagged Cease Fire, High Noon, Korean War

High Noon Symphonic Suite

Posted on December 8, 2012 by wsherk

A concert suite for High Noon—aimed at professional symphony orchestras—is available from the Hal Leonard Corporation. The music by Dimitri Tiomkin is arranged by Christopher Palmer and Patrick Russ. The seven-minute suite consists of the Theme (“Do Not Forsake Me … Read More…

Tagged Hal Leonard, High Noon

November 2012
High Noon concert suite published by Hal Leonard

Posted on November 2, 2012 by wsherk

A concert suite for High Noon is the second Symphony Pops series release from the Hal Leonard Corporation featuring film music by Dimitri Tiomkin. A concert suite for It’s a Wonderful Life was previously issued. The High Noon package (HL 04491074), … Read More…

Tagged Hal Leonard, High Noon

October 2011
High Noon play-along with the London Symphony

Posted on October 13, 2011 by wsherk

Londoners will have a special opportunity to play “Do Not Forsake Me” from High Noon along with the London Symphony Orchestra. Download the music and bring it with your instrument to the “LSO Discovery Family Concert: Music from the Movies” … Read More…

Tagged High Noon, London Symphony Orchestra

December 2007
High Noon soundtrack set for December 18 release

Posted on December 17, 2007 by wsherk

Dimitri Tiomkin’s landmark score for High Noon will be available for the first time on compact disc. This is the second in a series of Tiomkin scores painstakingly restored by Chelsea Rialto Studios and released by Screen Archives Entertainment, in … Read More…

Tagged Chelsea Rialto Studios, High Noon, Screen Archives Entertainment, soundtracks