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March 2022
High Noon in Belfast

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…

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January 2022
Wise Music rents Tiomkin concert suites for Warner Bros. films through Zinfonia

Wise Music now rents Dimitri Tiomkin concert suites for Warner Bros. films administered by Warner/Chappell. The Wise Music Classical Rental Libraries is a leading commercial music library and performance materials are shipped all over the world. Wise recommends you use … Read More…

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December 2021
It’s a Wonderful Life issued by La-La Land Records

La-La Land Records and Paramount Pictures have teamed up to release a remastered CD of music by Dimitri Tiomkin from It’s a Wonderful Life in honor of the film’s 75th anniversary. The 75th anniversary edition is produced by Dan Goldwasser and restored and mastered by … Read More…

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Whitney Claire Kaufman sings Give Me Your Love for Christmas on December 5, 2021

The Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey holiday pops concert will feature vocalist Whitney Claire Kaufman in a performance of Give Me Your Love for Christmas by composer Dimitri Tiomkin. Don’t miss this unusual and rare opportunity to hear a Dimitri … Read More…

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November 2021
Gottlieb Wallisch records Dimitri Tiomkin’s Créoles Blues

Pianist Gottlieb Wallisch includes a delightful rendition of the original piano version of Dimitri Tiomkin’s Créoles Blues on the Grand Piano label release, 20th Century Foxtrots, volume 3: Central and Eastern Europe. To show the influence of American jazz on … Read More…

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October 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Jorge Amado’s novel Home is the Sailor

by Warren M. Sherk During the summer of 1965 Dimitri Tiomkin plops down a $2,000 advance, based on a $10,000 option, for the right to film Jorge Amado’s novel Home is the Sailor. At the time, Jorge Amado (1921–2001), a … Read More…

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September 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold, part two

READ Part one: August 2021 Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold A new approach to scoring A composer “who scores a film should be involved in everything about it from the very beginning,” maintains Dimitri Tiomkin to a … Read More…

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August 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold

by Warren M. Sherk As 1964 draws to a close, Dimitri Tiomkin secures an option from American novelist Will Henry for the motion picture rights to his Western novel, Mackenna’s Gold, published by Random House the year before. With a penchant … Read More…

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July 2021
 More letters from Leonid Kinskey to Dimitri and Olivia Tiomkin

Leonid Kinskey, best known for portraying the character Sascha the bartender in the film Casablanca, sent three letters to Dimitri (“Dimochka”) and Olivia Tiomkin in March and April 1977. Similar to the letters previously profiled from 1978, these letters are filled … Read More…

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June 2021
 A musical version of The Trials of Oscar Wilde by Dimitri Tiomkin

by Warren M. Sherk After producing the film and adapting the music for Tchaikovsky, Dimitri Tiomkin is ready for his next project and considers a musical version of the film, The Trials of Oscar Wilde. The Trials of Oscar Wilde … Read More…

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