Nadia: The Motion Picture

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 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), Teachers College and Scripps 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 the music scores of motion pictures. He won the 1952 Pulitzer 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.

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