Word: kaye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...composer will attend rehearsals of the Harvard Wind Ensemble on Thursday and Saturday. Ensemble Manager Emily J. Davidson '89 said the group would perform two of Kay's compositions: "Forever Free," his major work for wind ensemble, and "Heralds I," a fanfare, in a concert on Saturday. On "Heralds I," visiting musicians from Canada's McGill University will join the Harvard group...
...Thursday Kay will speak in the Quincy House Junior Common Room on "The Making of a Composer," as part of the Learning From Performers Program. The Afro-American Studies Department will co-sponsor the discussion...
Thomas G. Everett, the director of the Harvard Wind Ensemble, described Kay as a major American composer who has written extensively for wind instruments...
...Kay's music, Everett said, is"serialized...highly formalized and structured,with almost a mathematical relationship betweennotes." But the composer also "colleges afolk-like melody with formalized abstractaccompaniment," he said...
Saturday's concert will last about two hours.In addition to Kay's works, the ensemble willperform "On the Nature of Things" by Henry Brantand "Introduction and Samba" by Maurice Whitney...