Gail Kubik
Gail Thompson Kubik was an American composer, music director, violinist, and teacher.Education and career
Kubik studied at the Eastman School of Music, the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago with Leo Sowerby, and Harvard University with Walter Piston and Nadia Boulanger. He taught violin and composition at Monmouth College and composition and music history at Columbia University, Teachers College and Scripps College.
Joining NBC Radio as staff composer in New York in 1940, he was music director for the Motion Picture Bureau at the Office of War Information, where, during World War II, he composed and conducted the music scores of motion pictures. He won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Symphony Concertante.
He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.Works
- American Caprice for piano and orchestra
- Piano Trio
- Violin Concerto, Op. 4
- Violin Concerto No. 2
- Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major
- Sonata for piano
- Symphony Concertante for piano, viola, trumpet and orchestra
- Symphony No. 2 in F major
- Symphony No. 3
- Divertimento No. 1 for thirteen players
- String Quartet
- Divertimento No. 2 for eight players
- In Praise of Johnny Appleseed
Opera
- Boston Baked Beans
- A Mirror for the Sky
Film scores
- Men and Ships
- Colleges at War
- Menpower
- Paratroops
- The World at War
- Dover
- Earthquakers
- Air Pattern-Pacific
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- Thunderbolt!
- C-Man
- Gerald McBoing-Boing ; Kubik composed also a longer version which is sometimes performed as a narrated concert piece with Dr. Seuss's text
- The Miner's Daughter
- Two Gals and a Guy
- The Desperate Hours. Additional music by Daniele Amfitheatrof
- I Thank a Fool This score was later replaced by Ron Goodwin
- Music for Bells
