Tag Archives: Lost Horizon

January 2025
Behind the Photograph: Dimitri Tiomkin and Max Steiner

Posted on February 2, 2025 by wsherk

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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September 2024
Behind the Photograph: Dimitri Tiomkin with Morris Stoloff

Posted on September 29, 2024 by wsherk

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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Charles Gerhardt pictorial tribute available on Kindle

Posted on December 23, 2019 by wsherk

Looking for a last minute holiday gift? For less than US$10 you can purchase a Kindle ebook featuring conductor Charles Gerhardt and the National Philharmonic Orchestra photographed by Alain Littaye in 1975 during the RCA recording sessions for The Classic … Read More…

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Dutton Vocalion reissues Lost Horizon: The Classic Film Scores of Dimitri Tiomkin

Posted on January 1, 2018 by wsherk

Lost Horizon: The Classic Film Scores of Dimitri Tiomkin, recorded in 1975 by RCA and released as an LP record, was reissued in SACD by Dutton Vocalion in late 2017. The disc contains a suite from The Thing from Another World previously unreleased in … Read More…

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Sony Home Video releases Lost Horizon, 80th anniversary edition, October 3, 2017

Posted on November 1, 2017 by wsherk

Sony Home Video recently released Lost Horizon on Blu-ray to commemorate the film’s 80th anniversary. The disc, accompanied by a 24-page Digibook with an essay by film historian Jeremy Arnold, includes one minute of recently unearthed footage from a worn … Read More…

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Lost Horizon

Posted on May 18, 2016 by wsherk

Adventure-fantasy film directed by Frank Capra. In the 1930s Tiomkin met Frank Capra at a party and a personal friendship blossomed. The two first worked together on Lost Horizon. The score helped make Tiomkin’s reputation as a creator of music on a grand … Read More…

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