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Dimitri Tiomkin

It had been once considered cute by Hollywood wits to poke fun at Russian-born composer Dimitri Tiomkin’s borscht-flavored highlight. How amusing it had been to listen to him yell out “Switt lyand of lyaberty!” while orchestrating “The Superstar Spangled Banner” for Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Would go to Washington (1939). …

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Miklós Rózsa

A Hungarian-born composer, most well-known for his Hollywood and Uk film scores, but additionally responsible for a substantial body of chamber parts, concertos, and orchestral music for the concert hall. Rozsa’s music can be steeped in post-romanticism, with stylistic root base within the folk music of his indigenous Hungary plus …

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