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CD Review: 55 Days at Peking
With the recent release of a complete FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE rerecording on Prometheus Records and La-La Land’s expanded soundtrack of 55 DAYS AT PEKING, it’s a good time to be a fan
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CD Review: The Fall of the Roman Empire
Samuel Bronston’s THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE belongs to cinema of a different era. In today’s world of bloated CGI, the 1964 film is impressive if for nothing else than the detailed sets and
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9 Favorite Film Scores of Dimitri Tiomkin
With the recent release of SAE’s splendid soundtrack for CYRANO DE BERGERAC, I figured this month’s “9 on the 9th” post was the perfect time to celebrate the music of four-time Academy Award winner
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CD Review: Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmund Rostand’s CYRANO DE BERGERAC has smelled like a winner since its premiere in 1897. The story of the unattractive poet and soldier with a rather large nasal protuberance who speaks his love for
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CD Review: Lost Horizon – The Classic Film Scores of Dimitri Tiomkin
The final reissued album in the Charles Gerhardt Classic Film Scores series (at least until March) is LOST HORIZON–THE CLASSIC FILM SCORES OF DIMITRI TIOMKIN. Though there were at least two albums in the
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CD Review: Champion
Fans of Dimitri Tiomkin have reason to celebrate this year. We’ve already seen the premiere of Tiomkin’s score for the 1947 film noir THE LONG NIGHT and the first complete recording of his epic THE ALAMO.
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CD Review: The Alamo
John Wayne stepped behind the camera in 1960 for his sprawling epic THE ALAMO. Wayne also cast himself as Davy Crockett with Richard Widmark and Laurence Harvey as Jim Bowie and William Travis. These
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The High and the Mighty
The granddaddy of all disaster movies–THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY–holds a special place in the history of film music and the Academy Awards. Based on Ernest K. Gann’s novel, the film follows passengers aboard an
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CD Review: Rhapsody of Steel
RHAPSODY OF STEEL (1959) is that rarest of industrial films–one with commercial distribution and an A-list Hollywood composer attached. By 1959, Dimitri Tiomkin had recently won the fourth of his four Academy Awards (for
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