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.
Among the many tributes extended to Ulysses Kay was his serving as composer-in-residence at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy in 1982, where this photograph was taken. He received six honorary doctorates during his life, and…