2018
April 2018
Report on Tiomkin ENERGY festival 2017 in Kremenchuk, Ukraine
In 2017, after a three-year hiatus due to civil unrest in the Ukraine, the International Jazz Festival ENERGY in honor of Dimitri Tiomkin returned to Kremenchuk (sometimes spelled Kremenchug) on the 5th anniversary of the inaugural 2012 festival. The festival, …
April 2018
Tiomkin Days, April 25-27, 2018 in Kremenchuk, Ukraine
The annual Dimitri Tiomkin festival in the city of the composer’s birth, Kremenchuk (sometimes spelled Kremenchug), Ukraine, will take place on April 25 to 27, 2018. In honor of their native son, the festival supports young pianists and improvisational music …
March 2018
Alvin Ailey ballet features Wild Is the Wind
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is celebrating it’s 50th anniversary. Founded in 1968 by Alvin Ailey (1931–1989), an African-American choreographer, the theater company has been entertaining audiences around the world with it’s imaginative programming and modern dance masterpieces. In a …
A Symphonic Night at the Movies: High Noon, with the Utah Symphony, February 17, 2018
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 …
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 …
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 …