Tag Archives: Sigmund Spaeth

March 2021
 Behind the Photograph: Robert Russell Bennett presents a special award to composer Dimitri Tiomkin

In its heyday from the 1930s through 1960s, the National Association for American Composers and Conductors (NAACC) was devoted to the promotion and performance of American concert hall music. In the mid-1970s—some years after the deaths of both its founder, … Read More…

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July 2007
The High and the Mighty goes to court

by Warren M. Sherk In 1955, after winning an Academy Award for the score from The High and the Mighty, Dimitri Tiomkin was named in a lawsuit by composer Leon Navara. Navara claimed that the film’s title song was based … Read More…

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