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Song of Ahab, Ulysses Kay

Song of Ahab by Ulysses Kay and presented by the Quincy Chamber Music Ensemble

Song of Ahab, Ulysses Kay

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…

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.

List of Operas: the Boor (1955); the Juggler of Our Lady (1956); the Capitoline Venus (1970); Jubilee (1974-76); Frederick Douglass (1980-1985); information on the premiere of Frederick Douglass

In this notebook, Kay kept track of the progress made on his last major work, the three-act opera "Frederick Douglass," also with a libretto by Donald Dorr. It was premiered by the New Jersey State Opera on April 14, 1991, with Kevin Maynor in the…

In these two pages, Kay kept track of the progress of "Jubliee," his first three-act opera, based on a novel by Margaret Walker, with a libretto by Donald Dorr. It was premiered by Opera/South on November 19, 1977, Paul Freeman conducting.

Details trips to Long Beach, Davis California; Phoenix, Tempe Arizona; Evanston Illinois; Englewood New Jersey; New Haven, Connecticut; among other places in New York state, Atlanta, Chicago, etc. Also lists teaching position offers from various…

"Trip to U.S.S.R." Ulysses Kay's Music Diary, 1949-1990: years 1958-59 detail his trip to the U.S.S.R., as well as other places in the United States