Tag Archives: Ned Washington

February 2025
Dimitri Tiomkin’s contribution to Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Posted on March 8, 2025 by wsherk

The Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington title song, “Wild Is the Wind,” from the 1957 film of the same name, plays an important role in one of the five films nominated in January for an Academy Award (Oscar) for Documentary … 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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April 2019
Tiomkin scores fêted festival film gratis

Posted on May 6, 2019 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk In 1962, Dimitri Tiomkin was so deeply sold on the talents of the twenty-something year-old-artists that filmed Without Each Other, he made a personal effort to bring them to the attention of Hollywood. And he scored … Read More…

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December 2018
Why did Dimitri Tiomkin bow out of scoring two Robert Aldrich films?

Posted on December 27, 2018 by wsherk

Part 1 of 2. By Warren M. Sherk In 1961 Dimitri Tiomkin agreed to score back-to-back Robert Aldrich directed films, The Last Sunset (1961) and Sodom and Gomorrah (released in Italy in 1961 as Sodoma e Gomorra, released in the … Read More…

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