Composed 2025; 10 minutes

Peter Golub moves fluently between the worlds of film, theater, and concert music.  His scores have accompanied Sundance Festival hits like Frozen River and Songs My Brothers Taught Me, as well as The Laramie Project (for HBO) and The Great Debaters, co-composed with James Newton Howard.  On Broadway, his music has supported productions by Donald Margulies, Christopher Durang, and Tennessee Williams.  A longtime collaborator with Charles Ludlam and Moisés Kaufman, Golub emerged from New York’s downtown theater scene with a flair for dramatic expression.  His concert works— performed by groups like Tashi and the Brooklyn Philharmonic— include Dark Carols, On Gossamer Wings, Ludus Ventorum and four ballet scores, one commissioned by Edward Villella for the Miami City Ballet.  As Director of the Sundance Film Music Program from 1999-2020, and a lecturer at UCLA and USC, Golub mentors the next generation of composers while continuing to write music that bridges narrative and abstraction.  He has recently launched a new program, the BMI Composer Lab with Broadcast Music, Inc.

Peter Golub writes about Moving Pictures: “The piano is our guide as we move through time and space.  The trumpet and violin, an unlikely pair, meet on opposite ends of the stage for this blind date.  The initial conversation is awkward, at times antagonistic; gradually things gel.   I’ve long been interested in the ‘personalities’ of the different instruments and their idiomatic characteristics.  Likewise, the question of space.  This piece, along with other recent works, explores ‘spatial music’, in which where something happens in space is an expressive component.  (My teacher Henry Brant was a pioneer and long-time practitioner of spatial music and a powerful influence, as is Charles Ives.)”