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Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin [a] (May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) [1] was a Russian [2] [3] [4] and American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in Saint Petersburg before the Bolshevik Revolution , he moved to Berlin and then New York City after the Russian Revolution.
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Tiomkin is a 2002 graduate of St. John's University, where he was a finance major. Tiomkin trains at the Fencers Club. His coaches are Simon Gershon and Mikhail Petin. He lives in New York City. Tiomkin owns and runs a fencing club in Hewlett, New York called the Five Towns Fencers Club. Tiomkin is the son of Reuven and Rebecca Tiomkin. [1]
Composer Dimitri Tiomkin scored the film and composed the theme song "The High and the Mighty"; the song was also called "The Whistling Song" because John Wayne whistled the tune during production. [34] Tiomkin's music topped hit parade charts and remained there for weeks, increasing the film's profile. [35]
"The Green Leaves of Summer" is a song, composed by Dimitri Tiomkin with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, written for the 1960 film The Alamo. [1] It was performed in the film's score by the vocal group The Brothers Four .
"Rawhide" is a Western song written by Ned Washington (lyrics) and composed by Dimitri Tiomkin in 1958. It was originally recorded by Frankie Laine.The song was used as the theme to Rawhide, a western television series that ran on CBS from 1959 to 1965.
Composer Dimitri Tiomkin was Jack Warner's choice to score Strangers on a Train. While he had previous Hitchcock experience on Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and would go on to score two more consecutive Hitchcock films, the director and composer "simply never developed much of a kinship" [9] and "the Hitchcock films are not Tiomkin's best". [9]
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. What resulted was a gentle ballad.