Word: dimitri
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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...
...intensely did Tchaikovsky throw himself into composition that when he 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...