'The Ulysses Kay Project' Presented Free by Harlem Chamber Players 6 PM Tuesday, October 22, 2013, St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University

Tia Roper

Ashley Horne

Ulysses Kay (1917-1995) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a comprehensive Works List by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com.

The Ulysses Kay Project 6:00 PM, Tuesday, October 22, 2013 St. Paul's Chapel Columbia University Campus 117th Street and Amsterdam, New York, NY 10027 Click here to view and print the flyer.

Program All Music by Ulysses Kay: Prelude for Unaccompanied Flute Sonatina for 2 Violins String Quartet No. 1Flute Quintet Featuring Tia Roper, Flute Ashley Horne, Violin Orlando Wells, Violin Aundrey Mitchell, Viola Lawrence Zoernig, Cello This concert is FREE and open to the public. Reservations are not required for this concert.  This Ulysses Kay Concert is sponsored by the University Chaplain's Office, Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University's Music Department, and the Office of Government & Community Affairs.  Ulysses Kay (1917 - 1995) wrote more than one hundred forty compositions in a wide range of forms -- five operas, over two dozen large orchestral works, more than fifty voice or choral compositions, over twenty chamber works, a ballet, and numerous other compositions for voice, solo instruments or dancer, film, and television. 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. His distinguished career, reflecting personal industry, discipline, and will, sets an encouraging, honorable, and inspiring example for all who follow. His message to aspiring composers strongly advocates continued study and growth in order to better express one's vision and individuality." The Kay family gave the papers of Barbara and Ulysses Kay to Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2009, and they have since been cataloged. Click here to access the online catalogue.  The Harlem Chamber Players 2013 - 2014 Season is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Support for this program is also funded in part by Council Member Inez E. Dickens, 9th Council District and Council Member Robert Jackson, 7th Council District, Speaker Christine Quinn and the New York City Council; in part by a grant from Columbia Community Service; a grant from the West Harlem Development Corporation of Tides Corporation; in part by a grant from the Harlem Community Arts Fund, a program of the Harlem Arts Alliance, with funding from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation; and through the generous donations of our individual supporters.