Dimitri Tiomkin: The Green Leaves of Summer - Mantovani Orchestra

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin 1894 –1979. A Ukrainian-born, American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in St. Petersburg, Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and then New York City after the Russian Revolution. In 1929, after the stock market crash, he moved to Hollywood, where he became best known for his scores for Western films, including Duel in the Sun, Red River, High Noon, The Big Sky, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and Last Train from Gun Hill. Tiomkin received twenty-two Academy Award nominations and won four Oscars, three for Best Original Score for High Noon, The High and the Mighty, and The Old Man and the Sea, and one for Best Original Song for “The Ballad of High Noon“ from the former film. “The Green Leaves of Summer“ is a song by Paul Francis Webster, with the music by Dimitri Tiomkin, written for the 1960 film The Alamo. It was performed in the film’s score by the vocal group ’The Brothers Four’. In 1961, the song