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Date of Birth

15 September 1914, South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, USA

Date of Death

20 July 1984, Claremont, California, USA

Birth Name

Gail Thompson Kubik

Mini Biography

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, conductor, violinist and teacher, educated at the Eastman School of Music (with a scholarship at age 14), the American Conservatory (Master of Arts) with Leo Sowerby, and Harvard University with Walter Piston ad 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 (OWI). During World War II, he composed and conducted films, and from 1946 he was guest professor at USC. Joining ASCAP in 1945, he had a Guggenheim fellowship (the first post-service grant) and was awarded the American Prix de Rome. From 1960 he was a lecturer under the auspices of UNESCO.

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Trivia

Won the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1952 for his "Symphony Concertante".

Studied the violin at the Eastman School of Music and was the soloist at the premiere of his First Violin Concerto in Chicago in 1938.

Left his teaching position in 1940 to take a job with NBC Radio as a composer for radio dramas.

Born into a musical family. His mother was a concert singer who had studied with the fabled Ernestine Schumann-Heink. His family formed a chamber music ensemble that toured the U.S. Midwest during the period 1930-1937.

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