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With eleven cash prizes for musical composition to his credit, e.g., two Rosenwald fellowships, two fellowships at the American Academy in Rome. 37-year-old Negro Composer Ulysses Kay is among the most steadily rewarded of contemporary U.S. composers. Last week he came in for a special honor: he was invited back to his native Tucson, Ariz. (pop. 48,774) to conduct the Tucson Symphony in his own symphonic score, Of New Horizons...
Music-minded Tucson, which turned out 2,400 strong, liked what it heard. Composer Kay is modern, as befits a onetime student of Composer Paul Hindesmith−but modern in thoroughly listenable fashion, as befits a man who has played saxophone and piccolo in a Navy band and has written a successful film score (for The Quiet One). Of New Horizons started and ended with plenty of brass, but in the middle it made appealing use of melodic interweavings in the strings. And though Composer Kay's melody kept getting interrupted by conflicting ideas, it also kept coming back...
...Arizona barber. Ulysses Kay left Tucson in 1938 with a degree from the University of Arizona and a strong urge toward music and composition. There was time for an M.A. at Rochester's Eastman School and advanced study at Tanglewood and Yale before Pearl Harbor. Then came the Navy and the hitch in the band. Finally, along with more study at Columbia on the G.I. Bill, came the succession of prizes and (since last year) a full-time job as editorial adviser in the Manhattan offices of Broadcast Music. Inc. (B.M.I.). His trip to Tucson was his first visit...
...pathetic and ill-used with every weapon in the Momist kit-proves a good deal of an old rip, Veteran Actress Boland comes through in her breeziest style of impeccable low comedy. Each of her intrusions on her son and daughter-in-law (well played by Jack Warden and Kay Medford) makes a bright little blob of color for the play...
Swamp-Fire (Kay Starr; Capitol). A tough, jivey version of a sultry oldtimer. It is sung in characteristic style by Songstress Starr, who was one of the first to popularize the slithering, wrong-note technique of today's pop singers...