  Consider the classical action of ${\rm GL}_n$ on a sum of $q$ copies of the
defining representation and $p$ copies of its dual; by Howe duality, the
polynomial functions on this space decompose under the joint action of ${\rm
GL}_n$ and $\mathfrak{gl}_{p+q}$. The modules for $\mathfrak{gl}_{p+q}$ are
infinite-dimensional and their structure is complicated outside a certain
stable range, although Enright and Willenbring (2005) constructed resolutions
in terms of generalized Verma modules. We show that these resolutions can be
read off from the coefficients in a formal series arising in an entirely
different setting: discrete series representations of ${\rm SU}(n,p+q)$ in the
case of two noncompact simple roots.
