Ulysses S. Kay was born on January 7, 1917, in Tucson, Arizona. ... He was the son of Elizabeth Davis Kay and Ulysses S. Kay. ... His father was a barber, and Ulysses had the privilege of being born to a very musical family. ... Kay suited one another well, along with their two very musically inclined children. ... His uncle, Joe Oliver, determined that the young Ulysses should study the piano before he would agree to teach him to play the trumpet, something that Ulysses was extremely interested in, so Ulysses studied piano with William A. ...
Kay was introduced to the music of Hungarian composer and pianist Bela Bartok as part of his piano study along with Julia Rebeil, and he was educated in music theory under John L. ... Ulysses then went on to earn a masters degree in 1940, studying composition with Bernard Rogers. In Rochester, Kay first heard his works performed, including Sinfonietta in 1939, Oboe Concerto in 1940, and Dance Calinda in 1941. In the summer of 1941, Kay had the chance to study composition with Paul Hindemith at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, Massachusetts. ...
Beginning in 1942, Ulysses enlisted and served in the U.S. ... Ulysses received the first of many prizes for his accomplishments from BMI in 1945 for Suite for Orchestra. ... In 1950, while he was still in Italy, he wrote Symphony in E, his very first major symphonic work
Kay went to the Soviet Union in 1958 as part of a cultural exchange program with the first delegation of American composers. ... In 1965 Kay was a visiting professor at Boston University. ...
To add to his many accomplishments, Kay received a permanent appointment to the faculty of the Herbert H. ... Kay said that the piece was “a tribute to show music, without quoting any themes directly”. ... The desires for Ulysses’s compositions continued to flood in. ...
Ulysses was awarded yet another honorary doctorate in 1981 from The University of Missouri at Kansas City. ... The Washington Post cited his interview at the premiere of the work at Newark Symphony Hall with the New Jersey State Opera in April of 1991, when Kay said, "I wasnt composing operas to prove anything.
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