By: Ardis E. Parshall - March 26, 2018 Dimitry Tiomkin was born in Russia to a Zionist father and a musical mother, who sent Dimitri to train in St. Petersburg in hopes that he would become a classical pianist. After the Russian Revolution, Tiomkin joined his father in exile in Berlin for a few years, then emigrated New York City in 1925. A severe injury to his arm ended his concert career and pointed him toward composing for the film in...
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