Ulysses Kay is shown here being given the Alumni Achievement Award in 1972 from the University of Rochester, where he had received his M.A. in music composition from the Eastman School of Music in 1940.
Ulysses Kay was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1979. He is shown here in this photograph taken in the early 1990s, sitting to the right of his former teacher at Columbia, Otto Luening, and with Jack Beeson standing…