Author Archives: wsherk
February 2018
Film in Concert: High Noon
January 2018
Making Music in Selznick’s Hollywood by Nathan Platte
Review by Warren M. Sherk Making Music in Selznick’s Hollywood by Nathan Platte published by Oxford University Press contains considerable documentation on Dimitri Tiomkin’s music scores for two films produced by David O. Selznick in the late 1940s: Duel in the Sun and Portrait …
Posted in Books, Current news, News
Tagged David O. Selznick, Nathan Platte
January 2018
Interview with author Nathan Platte
During the holidays we caught up with author Nathan Platte via email and asked him a few questions about his latest book, Making Music in Selznick’s Hollywood, now available from Oxford University Press. READ: See our book review here. Q.: Why Selznick? So …
Posted in Books, Current news, News
Tagged Nathan Platte
Dutton Vocalion reissues Lost Horizon: The Classic Film Scores of Dimitri Tiomkin
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 …
Posted in Blog, CD releases, Current news
Tagged Dutton Vocalion, Lost Horizon
Cease Fire available on DVD, November 2017
Kino Classics has released Cease Fire on DVD. The 1953 film—directed by Owen Crump, produced by Hal Wallis, and filmed in 3-D—features a music score by Dimitri Tiomkin. READ our feature article: Cease Fire: High Noon in Korea BUY (Amazon): Cease Fire
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Tagged Cease Fire, Dimitri Tiomkin, Owen Crump
December 2017
Armed Forces song folio, December 1956
At the annual 4th Avenue Winter Street Fair in Tucson, Arizona this month, we came across this interesting publication in a thrift shop. The December 1956 issue of the Armed Forces Song Folio contains two songs by Dimitri Tiomkin. The publication …
Posted in Current news, News
Tagged Armed Forces
November 2017
Tiomkin award goes to Merawi Gerima
The first recipient of the Dimitri Tiomkin Award is Merawi Gerima, a graduate student at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinematic Arts (SCA). Gerima is a filmmaker from Washington D.C. He is currently completing his Master’s degree …
Posted in Current news, News
Tagged Merawi Gerima, Tiomkin award
Sony Home Video releases Lost Horizon, 80th anniversary edition, October 3, 2017
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 …
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Tagged Lost Horizon, Sony Home Video
October 2017
I Hear You Calling Me: Dimitri Tiomkin’s attempt to film the story of Irish tenor John McCormack
Today, Monday, October 30, 2017, is a national holiday in Ireland. October Bank Holiday, or Lá Saoire Bainc (Deireadh Fómhair), celebrates Irish culture, including music. In the 1950s, Dimitri Tiomkin tried to bring the story of Irish tenor John McCormack …
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Tagged John McCormack
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, December 1, 2017
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents “FWSO at the Movies” at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas on December 1, 2017. The film It’s a Wonderful Life will be screened while the music score by Dimitri Tiomkin is performed …
Posted in Past concerts
Tagged Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
