Tag: Dimitri Tiomkin

Soundtrack Reviews

December 7, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
Soundtrack Reviews

Just uplaoded: soundtrack reviews of Ernest Gold’s Ship of Fools (Monstrous Movie Music), Franz Waxman’s Crime in the Streets (Varese), and from La-La Land Records we have Dimitri Tiomkin’s The Fall of the Roman Empire, Victor Young’s Shane, and J.C. Zamecnik’s Wings.

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Samuel Bronston, Part I

November 24, 2011 | By | Add a Comment
Samuel Bronston, Part I

Editorial blather and film review of Samuel Bronston’s epic production of 55 Days at Peking (1963), recently screened at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, plus a review of La-La Land’s new 2-CD soundtrack album featuring Dimitri Tiomkin’s complete Boom-De-Boom score.

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Doing it right: Gerhardt, Korngold, and RCA

April 4, 2011 | By | Add a Comment
Doing it right: Gerhardt, Korngold, and RCA

First reviews of the newly remastered CDs of the classic RCA released, Charles Gerhardt conducted, George Korngold produced Classic Film Music series from the seventies, plus an appreciation of this enduring string of audiophile albums…

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