Word: tiomkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really understands such musical attractions is Composer Dimitri Tiomkin. He was born near St. Petersburg and still, at 70, sounds like the quintessential Russian from Central Casting. "Ah! I am so wahnderful to see you," goes his standard greeting. Tiomkin is a true child of Hollywood. In 39 years there, he has written 125 film scores and won four Oscars. Versatile above all, Tiomkin has composed musical scores ranging from the lonely harmonica of High Noon to what sounded like a 4,000-piece ensemble in Giant...
...Little Help. Tiomkin has now finished his most ambitious project yet-a $2,000,000 biography of Tchaikovsky filmed mostly in Moscow and Leningrad with top Russian music, dance and cinema talent, all paid for by the Soviet government. Tiomkin is the movie's executive producer. Fittingly, too, for no one appreciates-or has borrowed from-Tchaikovsky more. "I am adapting so many years Tchaikovsky in my pictures," he explains modestly, "I think it is time to do something...