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Work: The Alamo: Suite

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ComposerTiomkin, Dimitri (1894-1979)
PeriodEarly 20th century
Work typeStage and film
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LondonJennifer Johnston & Julius Drake: The Age of Hollywood

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Korngold, Weill, Schoenberg, Eisler, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Herrmann, Rota, Waxman, Moross, Tiomkin, Rózsa, Steiner, Sherman, Harline
Jennifer Johnston; Julius Drake
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Oscar night with Dimitri Tiomkin and the London Symphony Orchestra

If you were to go to a cinema in St Petersburg of the 1910s, the pianist playing the backing music to the silent movie might have been one of two Dimitris: a very young Shostakovich, or the slightly older Dimitri Tiomkin. While Shostakovich stayed to make his fame within classical music in Soviet Russia, Tiomkin went west and fetched up in Hollywood.
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