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...
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