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currentmusicology-5226	Lee, Jennifer	Ulysses Kay Special Collection: Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University	2012	6	.pdf	application/pdf	2195	92	56	African–American composer Ulysses Kay (1917–1995) wrote more than one hundred forty compositions in a wide range of forms—five operas, over twenty large orchestral works, more than thirty choral compositions, fifteen chamber works, a ballet, and numerous other compositions for voice, solo instruments, film, and television.1 Born in Tucson, Arizona to a musical family, Kay was encouraged by both his mother and her brother, Joe “King” Oliver, to study piano, violin and saxophone. As stated by Constance Tibbs Hobson and Deborra A. Richardson in Ulysses Kay: A Bio–Bibliography (1994): “Kay’s contribution to America’s cultural life and to its contemporary music scene is outstanding.	cache/currentmusicology-5226.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-5226.txt