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	Dimitri Tiomkin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (Russian: Дмитрий Зиновьевич Тёмкин, Dmitrij Zinov'evič Tëmkin) (May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) was a film composer and conductor.
		Tiomkin was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine and educated at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia.
		Dimitri Tiomkin died in London, England in 1979 and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dimitri_Tiomkin (640 words)

	Dimitri Tiomkin
		Tiomkin was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine in 1894.
		Tiomkin's relationship with Capra ended with a disagreement over the scoring for It's a Wonderful Life (1946), but he was involved in arranging Claude Debussy's music for Selznick's Portrait of Jennie (1948), and his next big break came when Howard Hawks engaged him to write the music for his epic Western Red River (1948).
		Tiomkin was engaged by producer Hal Wallis for a pair of Westerns, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) and The Last Train From Gun Hill (1959), both directed by John Sturges, with the former yielding up a superb ballad underscoring the action.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P114221 (1383 words)

	Biography of Dimitri Tiomkin
		Dimitri Zinovich Tiomkin was born in Kremenchuk on May 10, 1894.
		In St. Petersburg, Tiomkin’s early life was marked by such political events as the overthrow of the Tsar, the Russian Revolution, and the rise of Soviet Russia.
		In early 1927 Tiomkin had parted ways with Kariton to embark on a coast-to-coast tour with “Albertina Rasch and her American Ballet.” He served as music director and arranger for the company of 30 dancers.
	www.dimitritiomkin.com /biography_printable.htm (2168 words)

	The High and the Mighty (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The studio also urged Tiomkin to come up with a theme song for the film, to be released to radio and as a vinyl record.
		Tiomkin formed the basic melody to the song and enlisted songwriter Ned Washington to write the song's lyrics.
		Tiomkin and Washington earned an Academy Award nomination for the song in 1955.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_High_and_the_Mighty_(song) (300 words)

	Dimitri Tiomkin - film composer
		Dimitri (or Dmitri, or Dimi) Tiomkin was born in the the Russian Ukraine.
		The song-writing partnership between Tiomkin and Washington was to produce several other songs such as "Wild is the Wind" (originally sung by Johnny Mathis then recorded by Nina Simone and later David Bowie) and for television, the themes for "Rawhide" and "Gunslinger" both sung by Frankie Laine.
		Their hit song machine that was Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington went on to create theme songs for Television, including one for the TV series "Rawhide".
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Dimitri-Tiomkin.htm (1201 words)

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		Tiomkin received 22 Academy Award nominations and won the Oscar four times: two (Best Score and Best Song) for "High Noon" (1952), and for the scores of "The High and the Mighty" (1954) and "The Old Man and the Sea" (1958).
		A shrewd businessman, Tiomkin worked as a free-agent at studios ranging from MGM to Monogram, fought for better pay and residuals for musicians, and chose only projects that he found stimulating.
		Tiomkin himself contributed to this trend by including songs in most of his subsequent scores.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11361 (382 words)

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		Dimitri Tiomkin once used these pithy words to describe the art of the movie soundtrack: "The composer, by providing pleasant melodic music, can direct attention from what the make-up artist could...
		The sound of Dimitri Tiomkin is the sound of Hollywood's Golden Age, for it was this prolific composer who provided the soundtrack to many memorable moments in American film history.
		Tiomkin went on to mythologize the American west with some of the greatest sagebrush soundtracks in history, including Red River (1948), High Noon (1952), Gunfight At The OK Corral (1957) and Rio Bravo (1959).
	www.sonymusic.com /artists/SoundtrackForACentury/ns4/sidebar/131.html (264 words)

	FMS: Feature [Dimitri Tiomkin & "The Wild Wild West": The Untold Story]
		Tiomkin and Webster tried again, with a song simply titled "Wild West." A demo recording of this one, referred in the CBS papers as "Wild West alternate main title," was made on January 18, 1965.
		Tiomkin's story, as related in a July 1965 story in Daily Variety, was that CBS "liked the melody but asked for a change of lyrics." Tiomkin refused, "so that deal fell through," the story said.
		Tiomkin died in 1979, Markowitz in 1994, Gilbert in 2003.
	www.filmmusicsociety.org /news_events/features/2004/083004.html (1634 words)

	Dimitri Tiomkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dimitri Zinovich Tiomkin (May 10, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Tiomkin was born in Kremenchuk Kremenchuk quick summary:
		Dimitri Tiomkin died in London London quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/di/dimitri_tiomkin.htm (2184 words)

	Sharing from Friends: The story behind the music of It's a Wonderful Life
		His work was cut heavily, music was moved within the film to places where Tiomkin did not intend it to be, and the work of other composers was even inserted in places.
		But this too, is not Tiomkin's music, he borrowed this common liturgical passage as a device for the film.
		Dimitri Tiomkin was not at all happy with the treatment of his music in the film, even though it did not affect his fees.
	www.zuzu.net /essays/music.html (1167 words)

	Dimitri Tiomkin - A plea for more recordings of his work: Film Music on the Web CD Reviews March 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dimitri Tiomkin was one of the celebrated group of composers that worked in Hollywood during its Golden Age scoring for some of the most important films of that time.
		All the well-loved Tiomkin musical thumbprints are in place: the stirring pace, the sudden pauses and shifts of key and accent, those thrilling jagged dotted rhythms and dramatic, trenchant staccato two-note figures.
		Tiomkin's albums were commissioned on the strength of his pictures' theme songs, and the selection of cues included seldom demonstrated Tiomkin's magnificent talent as a musical storyteller (Tiomkin was certainly not alone, of course).
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/2000/april00/tiomkin.htm (3010 words)

	Red River ~ Dimitri Tiomkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I can't say I've ever been grabbed by anything I've heard from Dimitri Tiomkin and this is supposedly one of his best and most famous efforts, make or break time for me liking his music.
		The liner notes make much of Tiomkin being asked how a Russian composer could conjure up the American west and he replied along the lines that the sweeping American landscape was the same as it was in his homeland.
		One of Tiomkin's trademarks is the busyness of his orchestrations and there are few let ups in the density of sound.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/redriver.htm (465 words)

	Dimitri Tiomkin
		Russian-born Tiomkin learned piano from his mother and was admitted to the St. Petersburg Conservatory at age 13.
		Tiomkin returned to concertizing in New York City and writing popular tunes, even having a short-lived (and not very successful) career as a Broadway producer.
		The disconcerting thing about Tiomkin's career is that despite his musical flair and the undeniable effectiveness of his film scores, he remains unrespected by his peers in the profession, many of whom think of him as a fraud.
	www.settling-the-score.com /tiomkin.html (793 words)

	Amazon.com: Friendly Persuasion: Original Music From The Score Of The Motion Picture: Music: Dimitri Tiomkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tiomkin does a magnificent job of capturing the feel of the film, and was to be commended for his work on this film.
		Tiomkin also captures musical moments of shy courtships and renewed romance, following the moving relationship between husband(Gary Cooper) and wife(Dorothy McGuire)and it is no mean feat to make their romance in musical terms moving, realistic and funny.
		Request more of Dimitri Tiomkin Scores be re-issued, for he is a wonderful composer of film music, one of of our greatest, and "Friendly Persuation" demonstates how good this music sounds on CD and deserves a wide audience.A great soundtrack CD for the entire family.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000151I?v=glance (1162 words)

	Dimitri TIOMKIN Lost Horizon: Film Music CD Reviews-May 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dimitri Tiomkin, himself, was in attendance, and took an active interest in the recording sessions for this album.
		Howard Hawkes's 1952 film (Tiomkin also scored Hawkes Red River and Rio Bravo), was set along the Missouri River, in the 1830s, a somewhat earlier period than the majority of western adventures.
		Tiomkin's music is often idyllic, a vivid sound painting of the beautiful wooded and mountainous countryside.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/2000/may00/losthorizon.htm (890 words)

	SoundtrackNet : The Court-Martial Of Billy Mitchell Soundtrack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Well, the good news is that Screen Archives Entertainment's release of Dimitri Tiomkin's score to The Court-Martial Of Billy Mitchell proves to be an energetic exception to this "dull courtroom" rule.
		Tiomkin's sparse but robust score is presented here in its entirety, running about thirty three minutes in aging but punchy monophonic sound, with an additional forty minutes of the disc devoted to audio excerpts of the film's dialogue (a welcome, if slightly arbitrary, bonus).
		It's clear by the overall tone of the music here whose side the filmmakers are on: Tiomkin's music gushes patriotically at the foot of Mitchell, even as he pits himself against the United States Government itself.
	www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database?id=2995 (656 words)

	The Columnists.com has columns about entertainment, television, music, and screen classics
		That was the night that Dimitri Tiomkin, one of the great classical composers of Hollywood, began being John Stanley.
		Dimitri Tiomkin, in real flesh and blood even if the picture was fl and white monochrome.
		Apparently Tiomkin had held his tongue for a long time on certain disagreements with Capra, until the making of "It's a Wonderful Life," after which the two artists split and never worked again.
	www.thecolumnists.com /stanley/stanley7.html (2363 words)

	The Guns of Navarone by Dimitri Tiomkin \| Cinemusic.net Soundtrack Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tiomkin, however, favored huge, splashy, blunt, and unflaggingly cheerful melodies that frequently come across today like the cheesiest creations you could possibly set your ears to.
		It's quite a jolt to consider that Tiomkin's approach to this WWII film was considered the norm for 1961.
		Tiomkin doesn't overuse either theme, but it's hard not to smile when he lets either rip, especially when he converts them both into songs with lyrics (the full chorus in “The Legend of Navarone — Exit Music” is far too sidesplittingly silly for me to believe that Tiomkin was taking this at all seriously).
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2005/guns_of_navarone.html (1092 words)

	Naxos.com, Your World of Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His name was Dimitri Tiomkin and he was one of the finest Hollywood composers of the 1940s and 1950s; the golden age of Hollywood music.
		Tiomkin composed a score for an early version of Resurrection (1931) and a charming adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (1933).
		It was a creative benchmark for Tiomkin and the beginning of a special association with Capra—the music for Lost Horizon remains one of the greatest scores ever written for a film.
	www.naxos.com /mainsite?pn=Composers&char=T&ComposerID=4517 (527 words)

	Movie Music UK - Dimitri Tiomkin
		Dimitri Tiomkin was born in St. Petersburg, but grew up in a small town in what is now the Ukraine.
		During his career, Tiomkin was regarded as one of the finest composers working in film, and had numerous successes, notably for his work in the Western genre (especially the films of John Wayne), and with directors such as Alfred Hitchcock.
		Sadly, Tiomkin died aged 80 on 11 November 1979 from complications after he broke his pelvis in a fall while in London.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /tiomkin.htm (716 words)

	Dimitri Tiomkin, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		While a touring concert pianist, it was Tiomkin who was most instrumental in introducing the works of Gershwin to Europe.
		Tiomkin left Russia for the U.S. in 1925, becoming an American citizen 12 years later and making his conducting debut with the L.A. Philharmonic in 1938.
		With Lost Horizon (1937), Tiomkin began a long association with director Frank Capra, which unfortunately ended in bitterness due to artistic clashes on the set of It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
	www.emusic.com /artist/10559/10559255.html (296 words)

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		The film practically invented the archetypes of the genre: the unreasoning alien force that must be destroyed; the scientist who lets curiosity get in the way of action; the confined-space setting; and the fate of mankind resting on the shoulders of a few.
		Scoring The Thing From Another World was Dimitri Tiomkin, one of cinema's most famous composers, who nonetheless was known for his popular melodies rather than an aptitude at science fiction.
		Tiomkin's score is much more traditional than The Thing and features a rousing military march as a title song, as well as a love song ("Julie").
	www.screenarchives.com /fsm/detailCD.cfm?ID=314 (472 words)

	The Alamo - Dimitri Tiomkin
		Russian born Dimitri Tiomkin was no stranger to western films and John Wayne turned to his great experience to put together the music for this film.
		The music is quite varied covering all the characters and events leading up to the final battle and reaches a peak of sustained power for those extended battle scenes themselves.
		The heroic story of those man fighting for their ideals against overwelming odds was an irresistable idea to film, and it was John Wayne's vision and Tiomkin's musical skills which turned it into a reality.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /reviews/dimitri-tiomkin-the-alamo.htm (1181 words)

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		The name Dimitri Tiomkin calls forth the image of one of Hollywood’s most distinguished and best-loved composers.
		Whether the genre was Westerns, drama, comedy, film noir, adventure, or war documentary, Tiomkin’s visceral, dramatic underscores helped bring more than 100 feature films to vivid life.
		Undoubtedly the most famous of these is “Do Not Forsake Me” from High Noon, but Tiomkin also wrote “Thee I Love” from Friendly Persuasion, “The Green Leaves of Summer” from The Alamo, and the theme from the television series Rawhide.
	www.dimitritiomkin.com (257 words)

	Dimitri TIOMKIN The Guns of Navarone: Film Music CD Reviews-May 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Despite the stunning sound and the doubtless enthusiasm of a student RCM orchestra, the essential Tiomkin idiom too often escapes them.
		This score has all the hallmarks of Tiomkin's dynamic music, with an abundance of excitement, and wit and glitter, and vivid evocation.
		The film and score cover the history of the development of steel stretching from the Iron Age through the discovery of steel in India and its appropriation by the sword-makers of Damascus to the birth of the steel age in the 19
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/2000/may00/gunsofnavarone.htm (644 words)

	High Noon
		Song fragments would be inserted in various points throughout the film to comment on the action and most of the background score was based on the rhythms and melody of the song.
		When preview audiences gave unfavorable marks to the film, Tiomkin took the publications rights to the song, recorded it with Frankie Laine, and the song turned into a huge success.
		The song and score certainly rank at the top of Tiomkin's output and would be the first two of the composer's four Academy Awards.
	www.settling-the-score.com /highnoon.html (636 words)

	eBay - dimitri tiomkin ..., CDs, Movie Memorabilia items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		DIMITRI TIOMKIN DJ COPY "THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA"45
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	Thirty-six Hours / 36 Hours - Music from the Movies
		On the one hand, there is the raw, almost savage side, which delights in violence and general clamour (witness the shrieking trumpets in Land of the Pharaohs); on the other, there is the master-melodist, very much in the mould of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov.
		Working with quite small orchestral forces (at least by his standards) Tiomkin's deft use of pizzicato strings, snare drum and, particularly, piano creates enormous tension.
		But when Tiomkin speeds up its tempo, it becomes a useful component in the various 'action' cues that accompany the hero's attempts to escape his German captors.
	www.musicfromthemovies.com /review.asp?ID=1173 (375 words)

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