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Gail Thompson Kubik (b. September 5 1914, South Coffeyville, Oklahoma; d. July 20 1984, Covina, California) was an American composer, motion picture scorist, violinist, and teacher. He 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 (1937) and Teachers College. Joining NBC 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 motion pictures. He was the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, awarded in 1952 for Symphony Concertante.

Works

Sonata for piano (1947)
Symphony Concertante (1952)
Divertimento no. 1 for eight players (1959)
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)

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)
The Memphis Belle (1944)
Thunderbolt (1945)
C-Man (1949)
Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950 cartoon based on a story by Dr. 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)

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