- Gail Kubik
Gail Thompson Kubik (
September 5 1914 ,South Coffeyville, Oklahoma -July 20 1984 ,Covina, California ) was an American composer, motion picture scorist, violinist, and teacher. He studied at theEastman School of Music , theAmerican Conservatory of Music in Chicago withLeo Sowerby , andHarvard University withWalter Piston andNadia Boulanger . He taught violin and composition atMonmouth College and composition and music history atColumbia University (1937), Teachers College andScripps College . Joining NBC as staff composer in New York in 1940, he was music director for the Motion Picture Bureau at theOffice of War Information , where duringWorld War II , he composed and conducted the music scores of motion pictures. He won the 1952Pulitzer Prize for Music for "Symphony Concertante".In December 1946 in New York City Gail married Joyce Mary (nee Scott-Paine); they had no children. They were later divorced.
Works
* "Piano trio" (1934)
* "Violin concerto op. 4" (1934-6)
* "Violin concerto no. 2" (1940/41, recorded byRuggiero Ricci )
* "Symphony no. 1 inE-flat major " (1946)
* "Sonata for piano" (1947)
* "Symphony Concertante" (1952)
* "Symphony no. 2 inF major " (1954-6)
* "Symphony no. 3" (1956)
* "Divertimento no. 1 for eight players" (1959)
* "String quartet" (1960)
* "Divertimento no. 2 for eight players" (1969)
* "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed" (for bass, chorus, and orchestra)Opera
* "Boston Baked Beans" (1952)
* "A Mirror for the Sky" (a folk opera, first performed 1957)Motion picture scores
* "Men and Ships" (1940)
* "Colleges at War" (1942)
* "Menpower" (1942)
* "Paratroops" (1942)
* "The World at War" (1942)
* "Dover" (1942, aka "Dover Front Line")
* "Earthquakers" (1943)
* "Air Pattern-Pacific" (1944)
* "" (1944)
* "Thunderbolt" (1945)
* "C-Man" (1949)
* "Gerald McBoing-Boing " (1950 cartoon based on a story byDr. Seuss ); Kubik composed also a longer version which is sometimes performed as a narrated concert piece with Dr. Seuss's text
* "The Miner's Daughter" (1950)
* "Two Gals and a Guy" (1951, aka "Baby and Me") (incidental music, also served as musical director)
* "The Desperate Hours" (1955)
* "I Thank a Fool" (1962)
* "Music for BellsExternal links
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* [http://www.lib.ksu.edu/depts/spec/findaids/pc1995-06.html Kubik papers at Kansas State University]
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