Word: tiomkin
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...thank you for your marvelous article [April 27], and let's make a date for ten years from now to see which Tchaikovsky is on television. Incidentally you forgot the one in giving cost of film; it was closer to $12 million than $2,000,000. DIMITRI TIOMKIN...
Accordingly, Tiomkin is paying his fellow Russian the ultimate compliment: for the musical interludes between performances of Tchaikovsky concertos, symphonies and stage works, Tiomkin composed the score himself (with help from the master's melodies, naturally...
...answer is yes, and that positively sets Tiomkin's E string to twittering. "I think United Artists thought maybe we were doing little bit dull musical, maybe Romberg-style fictionalized soaper, and decided 'Ah! Here is story about homosexual. We can make money on something where is publicity already done...
Even thus threatened, Tiomkin stands firm in the camp of cinéma nonvérité. "We're not doing an étude of complex homosexualist for small audience," he says. "We're aiming at a mass audience. We want to give a little bit picture of the man, to give overall feeling that's very melodious...
...died at the age of 53 he had produced a total of 325 hours of music. For The Lonely Heart, Composer-Conductor André Previn drew heavily upon that reserve-and it is pure Tchaikovsky. Dimitri used what he calls "Tchaikovsky's basic architecture"-with embellishments by Tiomkin. Still, the score is essentially Tchaikovsky-so much so that Dimitri, with unwonted modesty, lists himself in the credits as "adapter," not "composer...