Dimitri Tiomkin was an amazing composer. I have particularly enjoyed his scores in many of the old western movies, including some John Wayne flicks. Theme from High Noon is an old western genre classic. He is internationally famous, so no surprise he would be featured along with other composers in the Olympic closings.
Found on youtube, he also wrote the theme to The High and The Mighty......I still remember the first few lines of that song and it was 1950’s and the first movie I saw when John Wayne was not a cowboy..but an airline pilot
Thanks for introducing me to this great composer whose music was played at the Olympics in Sochi! The scores of those films were wonderful and memorable, yet I had no idea or even curiosity about who wrote them. I see that Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was Jewish, born in 1894 in Kremenchuk, Poltova Oblast, on the banks of the Dnieper River in Central Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire.
It’s clear why they played his music at the Olympics. His contributions to collective musical repertoire are amazing! He won three academy awards (was nominated for many more) and six Golden Globe Awards.
Read about him at the Wiki entry and the official Dimitri Tiomkin website with links to some of his music.
This composer deserves much greater general recognition in the U.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Tiomkin
http://www.dimitritiomkin.com/
‘Dimitri Tiomkin was an amazing composer.’
Indeed.
My favorite is “Tyomnaja Notch”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDGLFLKa5o4&feature=share&list=FLxjnic50fH5XL1hQN8m5f1A&index=39