Symphony Concertante (Kubik)
Symphony Concertante is a composition by Gail Kubik (1914–1984) for trumpet, viola, piano, and orchestra. It was premiered January 7, 1952 by its commissioner, The Little Orchestra, Thomas Scherman conducting.[1]
The work is structured as follows:
- Fast, vigorously
- Quietly
- Fast, with energy.
Kubik was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1952 for the piece. The committee wrote: "The Symphony Concertante is brilliant and exuberant, full of rhythmic vitality, the orchestration both original and skillful."[2] The piece is based on his score for C-Man.[3]
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Pulitzer Prize for Music (1951–1960)
- Douglas Moore ('51): Giants in the Earth
- Gail Kubik ('52): Symphony Concertante
- n.a. ('53)
- Quincy Porter ('54): Concerto Concertante
- Gian Carlo Menotti ('55): The Saint of Bleecker Street
- Ernst Toch ('56): Symphony No. 3
- Norman Dello Joio ('57): Meditations on Ecclesiastes
- Samuel Barber ('58): Vanessa
- John La Montaine ('59): Piano Concerto No. 1
- Elliott Carter ('60): String Quartet No. 2
- Complete list
- (1943–1950)
- (1951–1960)
- (1961–1970)
- (1971–1980)
- (1981–1990)
- (1991–2000)
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