FROM Ulysses Kay, Mus 2.c
NAS BAND
Quonset Point, R. I.

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York 30, N. Y.

March 18, 1946

On tour - Chicago

Dear Mr. Kay:

I am just about to wind up my Spring tour
within the next two weeks. I shall be in New
York in April and will be happy to see you
then. Kindly give me a ring at EDgecombe 4-6909
around 6:30 in the evening.

Sincerely yours,

Mr. Ulysses Kay
540 West 144
Apartment 35
New York City

23 Jan. 47

Dear Langston,

Hello! and belated congratulations on the great success of "Street Scene." I haven't seen it yet, though I hope to before long, but I have been reading about it everywhere. And I am very proud to hear about it and to know you.

Things are going well now, but they were hectic just awhile back. Had to finish a score for Jan. 1st and at the same time I undertook a small dance commission for a Martha Graham pupil. Finally got both of them done, and the girl, Eleanor Goff used my piece when she appeared in the Audition Winners Program at the YMHA Jan. 12th.

My regards to Mr. and Mrs. Harper, and all good wishes. Sincerely,

540 W. 144th St.
Apt. 35 NYC 31.

Mr. Langston Hughes
Atlanta University
Atlanta, Georgia

E program enclosed: Harvard (Univ.) A
Symposium on Music Criticism, 1947 May
1, 2, and 3 | 11 May 1947

Dear Langston,

Hello! and thanks for sending me the programs of the Fisk Festival. I thought once of going down for it, but was unable to do so. Therefore I was unusually interested to see the list of events in detail.

I suppose you have read or received notice of the Academy's Grants for this year, and I am very happy to be one of them. Will you be back by the 23rd? If so I would like very much for you to hear the program, as the piece I played on the piano (however badly) for you is the one they are supposed to perform then. I think it's a good piece, but don't know how it will come off following the Schoenberg piece, preceding it. Well, here's hoping!

In case you won't be back in time, I wonder if you would care to send me your two tickets? Since they are having a full length concert this year, tickets are in demand and scarce. And Miss Geffen said she didn't think she could send me any extra ones. I will appreciate it if you can let me have them, but I do hope you can come back in time yourself.

Went up to the enclosed and it was very fine. Met Kemper Harreld, Warner Lawson, George Garner there. Also Nora Holt. Forster, Wind, and Lang were the best speakers. Sincerely,

15

17 November 1947

Dear Langston,

Hello! and how are things with you these days? Well, I hope, and probably busy as ever with some new work or project.

My work is progressing very well, and if it continues to do so, I would like very much to have another try at your one-act play, SOUL GONE HOME. So will you please have a copy of it sent to me at your convenience?

Is it copyrighted in your name or in that of your publisher? As you may remember, you said that it would be alright for me to adapt a text from the play, since you were too busy to undertake it yourself at the time. Before I begin actual work on the music, I would like to have written permission to use the play as the basis of a chamber opera. If this necessitates payment of a fee, I would like that stated and other conditions that should apply.

Thanks a lot, and all good wishes to you and your Aunt.

4 March 48

Dear Langston,

Please accept my rather tardy thanks for sending me an autographed copy of your STREET SCENE score. I am most happy to have it, and you are most kind to remember me in this generous way.

I would have written sooner to thank you, but have been beset by work and two approaching deadlines. Was "decommissioned" recently with an appendectomy, and everything piled up and went haywire in the interim. So it has taken me until now to begin to catch up on correspondence, etc.

There still hasn't been time to study the score, but I will try to do so before long, as there is much for me to learn in connection with the theater. I liked the work in performance, and many of its details have remained in my memory. So the score will prove to be very rewarding, I'm sure.

I notice that your friend, Jan Myerowitz (?) is to be on the Composers Forum before long. I will try and come...he's doing one song to your text. Thanks again, and all good wishes. Sincerely,

540 W. 144th St.
Apt. 35
New York City

HAMILTON

PLEASE FORWARD

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York City

20E1275H

22 October 1948

Dear Langston,

I don't have your new address, but I hope that
you receive this without much delay, since the time
is short.

There are to be several showings of the docu-
mentary film which I scored last spring:

Place: Preview Theatre
1600 Broadway......9th floor

Time: Wednesday Oct. 27th 11 am
Thursday Oct. 28th 4 pm and 8:15 pm
Friday Oct. 29th @ 8:15 pm

The picture is quite interesting, and I think
you will find it worth seeing, so I hope that one of
these times may be convenient for you. It was made
as a co-op effort as a benefit for the Wylt Wyck
School, and an inter-racial school for delinquent boys.
I would appreciate you spreading word about it...if you
think it worthwhile.

There are to be other showings very soon after
these (in case you miss it this time), and you can
tell you aunt and other friends about them. I think
that seating capacity may be limited this first time...
especially for the evening showings.

Best wishes,
Zyssen

32

Thursday

Dear Langston,

Thanks very much for your letter; very kind of you
to write, and I'm glad that you enjoyed the picture.

There are two showings today, and I tried to call
you last night, but couldn't get your number from the
operator.

Janice Loeb was happy to hear of your reaction to
the picture and will be glad to have you write a bit
about it as you suggested. However, they are dickering
with a distributer and would like to hold any publicity
just now in order to tie it in with their general pro-
gram *if* and *when* they get a general release and dis-
tribution. Also in this connection, they have slacked
off with the screenings that were planned pending the
outcome of their deal.

However, there is to be a chi-chi showing at the
Museum of Modern Art Thursday November 18th...evening,
I think. If you can definitely go, I'll have them send
you a the ticket for two. Drop me a card.

Saw Nate last week, and I hope to get over to
see you shortly after the 19th.

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Nen Langston Hughes
20 E. 127th St
New York 35-
N.Y.

February 23, 1950

Mr. Ulysses Kay
American Academy in Rome
Via Angelo Masina 5,
Rome, Italy

Dear Ulysses:

I don't know whether I have given to you the addresses of friends
of mine now in Rome. At any rate, here they are. Perhaps you might
want to call on some of them.

Mrs. Thyra Edwards Gitlin
% A.J.D.C. (American Jewish Distribution Committee)
Via San Basilio 9
Rome, Italy

And here is one of my Italian translator (who has recently had published
a copy of my play, MULATTO—which was THE BARRIER in musical form):

Sr. Antonio Ghirelli
Via Sforza Pallavicini I
Rome, Italy

How are things going there for you and the new madam? I've enjoyed
receiving your cards. Makes me honesick for Rome and a little Pizza
and Vino.

Did you receive the copy of VOICES, the Special Negro Poets Issue of the
poetry quarterly which I edited? I believe I also sent you clippings
about THE BARRIER.

We had a big party last Saturday night. Mrs. Harper and Dorothy Peterson gave it for Arna Bontemps (who was in town for a few days from Fisk) and Emerson and myself. Needless to say, a wet, high old time was had by all. House full of white folks, chollud and stray dogs. We drank and hollered till the case went dry. Nate and Gerry were here, too. They have a very nice apartment now and Gerry is a whizz as a cook. She brought us a big lemon chiffon pie yesterday, all decorated with cherries in honor of George Washington. Mrs. Harper has repainted her kitchen. Its add white with red trimmings. She even has a new vacuum cleaner with attachments that do everything—including wipe the baby.

I'm having some luck now with my pop songs. They are being recorded now
by Juanita Hall, Burl Ives, Pattie Paige, Nellie Lutcher, and various and
sundry. It will be just my luck to hit the jackpot with a couple of big
hits, only to have Uncle Sam snatch the jackpot out of my eager fingers.
Such is the fate of those who must pursue that elusive intangible, A R T!
End of page, also end of letter. Continue to let us hear from you and
Barbara.
Sincerely,

1 March '50

Dear Langston,

Belated Birthday Greetings!!! and thanks very much for your swell letter. It's really good to have a little news betimes from good friends back home; it sounds like you folks are having nearly all the fun. However, I wouldn't trade just now, especially considering reports we have had regarding New York weather! And just think, here we were eating lunch out in the sun frequently during Jan. and the first part of Feb. (I know I'm just a-breaking your heart, for every since you mentioned you love of Tucson, I've put you down as a sun worshipper'.) Just now, though, the weather has turned quite chilly with a good deal of rain.

Thanks very much for the copy of VOICES which arrived about a week before your letter. We are reading it with pleasure, and I am especially glad to see that some reviews are included in addition to the poetry. Of the reviews, I particularly liked yours and Gwen Brooks'. Also glad that you folks do not cultivate the "obscure" in your creative writing.

Glad you included the addresses of your friends here. We had heard of Thyra Edwards through other friends of Barbara, and we will get around to calling on them and your translator also before long.

We have been busy with the usual routine of work and some recreation. Rome has quite an extensive musical life, and I find that one is hard-pressed to keep up with all the various recitals, concerts, and operas. We have seen fine productions of "Falstaff," "Barber of Seville," "Tosca," etc., and three one act operas: "St. Francis" by Malpiero, "La Sagesse" by Milhaud to text of Claudel, and "Suor Angelica" by Puccini. At the concerts there have been quite a view Stravinsky performances, including "Oedipus Rex," Le Sacre," and "Les Noces." Ella Belle Davis is coming this spring, as well as Bernstein, Koussevitsky, Mitropoulos, etc.

Theatre is quite active here with about 3 or 4 houses playing constantly. Since our Italian is rather weak as yet, we have not been to any of these plays however. An American repertory company just began this winter (in English), and they are doing "Born Yesterday" at the moment.

Very happy to hear about the big party given for you, and I know everyone had one swell time. Wish Barbara and I could have been there. Nice that Arna was in town in time for the party. My regards to him when you write; hope his work is going well. (confidentially, how does he manage to get any done with all those kids????)

That's great that many of your things are being recorded now; and all of this in addition to your operas, books, plays, etc. will doubtless bring you that winter estate in Arizona ere long. Nate sent "Barrier" reviews, and we were happy to know that it is a hit. More power to you and to Meyerowitz and keep up the good work!

Most sincerely, U.

35

23 May '50

Dear Langston,

Thanks so much for sending us a copy of your newest book, "Simple Speaks His Mind." It is simply wonderful! and Barbara and I are having no end of pleasure and enjoyment reading it since it arrived last week. You were most kind to send us a copy of the book, and I assure you that we were happy to receive it, for we have been greatly curious about it ever since we saw this review of it in the European edition of the TIMES. I have read many of the DEFENDER columns on Simple, but even so, I was most pleasantly surprised at the freshness, pointedness, and excellent form, etc. of the material as it occurs in the book. Congratulations, and keep up the good work.

All goes well here...as usual; in fact, quite well, for I am getting some fairly good music written and completed, for which I am very thankful; it's hard work, but I stay at it quite regularly. Hope to get some of the current things finished before we do some travelling this summer.

Not much news otherwise; we met Denby and Dorothy Maynor here recently. We're expecting Denby to call every since Nate wrote us about him sometime ago, but he never did. Ran into him at a concert, tho, and then had him up. Seems like a very nice fellow, and knew a few people here at the Academy, having been here visiting last year...or at least before we arrived. Hope to see more of him in time, but he's leaving for Africa in the near future. Also met Thyra Edwards at a concert with Maynor, but haven't had time to see her yet. Will soon tho.
All good wishes, and write when you can. Most sincerely,

Ulysses

American Academy in Rome
Via Angelo Masina 5
Rome Italy

18 June 1951

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th Street
New York 35, N. Y.

Dear Langston,

Thanks a lot for your good letter of June 10th. Glad to hear from you and will welcome the material for "Should Gone Home" whenever you send it. I know you're busy, and I think that is fine. Keep up the good work, and do all that you can. Hope to see the shows when we get back in 52, and I will certainly get around to the books when they come out.

Yes, Copland mentioned you and your greetings when he first arrived, but I forgot to mention him when I wrote you last. He's still here but busy as ever, and we seldom see him. Will be leaving for Tanglewood before long, I think.

Not much news except that Barbara is well, the baby is coming in July, we have an apartment lined up, and I've been renewed for a third year. (may have told you some of this before.)

Kenneth Spenser's mother was through here; also Eugene Gash, Natalie Hinderas and mother. We see Bill Demby once in a great while, and Richard Wright was thru in the winter.

Thought you'd like to see the enclosed. The Melville piece was exciting to work on, and I think it turned out fairly well.

Regards to Nate and your aunt, and all good wishes!

Sincerely,

10 Feb. 52

Dear Langston,

Greetings! and many thanks for your very nice Xmas card...the Lorca poems. We are happy to have them and have enjoyed reading them very much.

Jenny and Barbara are fine, and here is a view of us. All goes well here. Dean Dixon was through in Jan. and did my "Suite for Orchestra" with the Radio Torino Orchestra and my "Songs for Strings" in Naples. He is well, busy, and apparently making a good name and place for himself over here.

Not much other news here. We'll be home about the middle of July and it will be good to see you and friends again. All good wishes!

AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME

VIA AÑGELO MASINA 5

(PORTA S. PANCRAZIO)

ROME 28

CABLE ADDRESS

"AMACADMY,"

3 May 52

Dear Langston,

Greetings! and many thanks for your latest book, "Laughing to Keep from Crying," which your publishers so kindly sent us.

Barbara and I are enjoying it immensely, and I was pleased to see the reviews of it in the "Times" and "Saturday Review of Literature." Keep up the good work.

Not much news here of late; work is going along well after a long slow period, and we are looking forward to coming home. In fact we sail from Naples on July 1st, so we'll see you in New York before long. Perhaps not at first for we'll be busy finding a place to live and getting settled.

Here is a view of the three of us. Jenny is thriving and becoming more interesting every day!

All good wishes,

Sincerely,

M. WERNER F. BORDA

34 West Lamrwood Ave.
Orangeburg, New York

M

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th Street
New York, N. Y.

58

January 17, 1953

Dear Ulysses,

Came down with a cold and a sty--
too much holidays--so didn't call you. But do
hope I'll see you soon. I've been rushed meeting
a deadline on my new Simple book about to go to
press, but the pressure should ease up shortly.

Arna Bontemps relayed these programs
from Risk to you via me, so you could see how and
where you're being played.

Best regards to the Missus!

Dear Langston,

Greetings! If you're near a radio
Sunday May 10th, you can hear a little
piece of mine over CBS Network on String
Serenade at 2 pm....I think.

Wlysses Kay

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POSTAL CARD

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th St.
New York 35, N. Y.

Ulysses Kay

American Academy in Rome

Via Angelo Masina 5, ROME, ITALY

12 Jan. 51

Dear Langston,

Sincerest "Post"-Season's Greetings!!! and
a thousand apologies for taking so long to acknow-
ledge the copy of your poem which you sent Barbara
and me sometime ago. We were very happy to receive
it, and we very much enjoyed reading it, but my
correspondence has been _so_ neglected of late until
I am only now getting around to thanking you. Hope
you understand.

All goes well here, including life, family,
and work. Residence here has been most productive,
for facilities are good with very few if any distrac-
tions. And I have made good use of my time, knowing
only _too_ well that our return to the States in time
will mean much less leisure and time for my own
personal work in composition.

As for details, Barbara and I are having a baby
come late July; we are most happy and excited over this,
and everything seems to be progressing well...that is
everything except Barb's periodic nausea and the world
situation. But personally, I'm hoping they'll both pass
on their way little by little.

The other detail may be of special interest to
you; to wit: At long last, I have started work on
"Soul Gone Home"...the chamber opera we talked about
some time ago. It's progressing well, and is going to be
a very good piece. I find your text excellent, and I'm

14 East 30th St.
New York 16, N. Y.

5 Feb. 1954

Dear Langston,

Have intended writing to thank you for the
score of your and Meyerowitz cantata which you so
kindly sent us as a Christmas present. But things
have been hectic, and I am just now getting around
to a letter.

And it is most timely, for now I can also
thank you for the tickets to the Concert Choir
program which arrived this morning, sent with
your compliments.

I really appreciate your thoughtfulness, and
fully intend to go to the concert. It looks like a
very fine program, and I am anxious to hear "The
Five Foolish Virgins."

Incidentally, my "Concerto for Orchestra" is
being done this Sunday night (the 7th) on a free
concert at Cooper Union - 8:30 pm. It's a forum
program and usually much more lively than the
standard formal concert. I hope you can come.

All good wishes!

May 8, 1954

Mr. Ulysses Kay
14 East 30th Street
New York 16, New York

Dear Ulysses:

I played your concerto about twenty-nine times the day it arrived and have been playing it every since. I like it very much indeed and it was most thoughtful of you to send it to me. I hope that you write many more things equally as beautiful --- as I am sure you will. And I hope I will be around to enjoy them.

How are Barbara and the baby? Let me know when she gets big enough to read a book, as I am turning out nothing but children's books these days and will send her some when she gets big enough and old enough to start a library.

I hope that I shall see you soon. Meanwhile, all my good wishes, as ever.

lh
hs

14 E. 30th St.
New York 16, N. Y.

4 June 54

Dear Langston,

Thanks so much for your letter and for the new
version of SOUL GONE HOME.

I am very happy to have it and I greatly appreciate
your interest in lyricizing the original play for
me.

At present I have a few things underway and there-
fore cannot begin work on it at once. However, I
expect to get to work on the chamber opera before
long and would like to come up and talk to you about
it before I start on it.

I will get in touch with you.

BROADCAST MUSIC, INC.

589 Fifth Avenue • New York 17, N. Y.
PLAZA 9-1500

17 January 1956

Dear Langston,

Greetings! in the new year! and just a note to
check with you about when you can come to dinner.

Now we're not pressing you, ... just reminding
you.... that when you can see your way to come down for
an evening, we would like very much to have you come.

Saturday is usually about the best evening for
us; so what about the first or second Saturday in February?
Or any Saturday thereafter??? Huh?

Hope you can make it or let us know about when
you might be able to make it.

277 Ave. C - Apt. 10F
New York 9, N. Y.
ORegon 7-2908

73

277 Avenue C - Apt. 10F
New York 9, New York

14 August 1956

Dear Langston,

Man! how you do get around! Thanks so much
for the program from Ann Arbor. It really looks like
a wonderful and most comprehensive series on the Negro
that they put on out there. I am happy that they play their
records of my pieces, and I greatly appreciate you letting
me know, for I make a little something when I report
the broadcasts. And with these University (and/or offbeat)
stations, it is very hard to get the information to report
about the broadcasts, unless some friend sends a program
of the station or a newspaper listing.

I hope that things are going well with you,
and I know that you are busy as always. Barbara is in
the country (near Nyack) with Jenny for the summer and
part of the fall, and I am sort of in and out ... and
trying to write something or other, and working from
9 to 5 ... and so, you see how it is.

Nat Shapiro said that he met you up a New Port,
and hopes to get together with you on a book or something,
in time.

Thanks again, all the best, and Keep the Faith!

Ulysses Kay

Feb. 11, 1957

Dear Langston,

Greetings! and many thanks for your card (and a
handsome card it is too!) telling me about the performance
of my piece on WRCA. It's always helpful to be able to
report these things for logging purposes.

It was so good to see you the other night at the
concert, and I wish that we could have you down for
dinner sometime before long at your convenience. Of
course I know how it is with deadlines, etc., but do
let us know if and when you may feel like coming down.

I ran into Nate nearly 2 years ago up around
47th & 6th ave., and he was to call me back sometime,
but he never did. Glad to hear about him and wish that
things go well for him.

Here is a ticket to this program that's coming
up Thursday night in Town Hall. Mitropoulos is conducting
my Louisville commissioned piece, something of Still's,
and three things with young Negro soloists, in addition
to which Lionel and band will swing. Drop by if you're
in the mind to do so.

Also here is a brochure that came out recently.
All the best to you personally and in your work, and do
keep in touch. Barb and Jenny are fine.

277 Ave. C - Apt. 10F

New York 9, N. Y.

March 8th, 1957

Dear Langston,

Greetings! and just a note to say that Barbara and
I would like you to come to dinner some time this
Spring if you can see your way to do so.

Here is the situation. We are planning to have
a few friends in on each of the following dates:

Saturday - March 30th at 7:30 pm
.. - April 13th ..
.. - April 27th ..

We know you're busy nearly all the time, but if
you could make it one of these dates, we will be
happy to pick you up in the car and to take you home
also - which will make it a little simpler in terms
of getting downtown.

So let us know if and when you could possibly make
it, and we'll follow through. I do hope that you and
Jan get a good production and performance of your
new opera when it's done out in Urbana. Someone will
most likely be out from BMI for some of the festival,
but I won't be able to go. All good wishes,

ØR. 7-2908

P S Here is a photo-copy of a program listing that a
friend sent from Urbana. The programs look very
much like those that you sent me from that
station in Michigan last year.

March 13, 1957

Dear Ulysses:

It is certainly nice to hear from you
and Barbara and you are certainly kind
to extend so many alternative dinner
dates. I should like to take you up
on one of them in April but at the mo-
ment I am flying out to the U. of Illinois
for the opera and from there to the Coast
so I will have to wait until I return
to let you know which date I shall have
the pleasure of dinner with you.

With cordial regards to you both, I am

BROADCAST MUSIC, INC.

10 May 57

Dear Langston,

Congratulations!! Barbara and I were pleased, inspired and proud seeing you interviewed last night on "Night Beat." You came off very well in the "hot seat" and I felt that you were able to get across a good deal of pertinent and important information about writers, your views, and our group problems. It was fine!

I wish that there had been time and/or an opportunity for you to read some of your own poetry - that would have added considerably to the occasion.

All the best with your play which we intend to catch, and we'll be seeing you.

277 Ave. C - Aptl. 10F
New York 9, N. Y.
Oct. 1, 1957

Dear Langston,

Greetings! and apologies and thanks for the
 invite to your book autographing party. Barbara and
 I fully intended to come (at least one of us), but
 we both were laid up with colds; and this is my first
 day back at work.

We were both happy to read the reviews that
your new book, "Simple Stakes A Claim," got, and I
thought they were fairly good. Judging from the reviews,
the book says very well many things that need saying
these days.

Oh yes, we have news! Melinda Kay (6 lbs. 10½ ozs., and 21 inches long) arrived on September 5th, to Jenny's and our delight. She and Barbara are doing fine, though the household has been busy and unquiet relatively speaking.

That's about all for now. Some composing is
beginning again after much distraction, and that's a
good sign for me.

All good wishes!

Feb. 12, 1958

Dear Langston,

Greetings! and can you please help me out of
a spot? Nate White phoned asking me to lend some material
for their Negro History Week exhibit out where he lives,
and I agreed to send it to him.

Since then I inadvertently lost my address
book and now find that I don't have his number or address
anywhere. Information has a listing for a Nathaniel White
in Belle Harbor, but I'm not sure this is the one.

Can you jot his address & phone on the enclosed
card and return soon? Thanks.

All good wishes!

BROADCAST MUSIC, INC.

December 24, 1958

Dear Langston,

SEASON'S GREETINGS! and thanks so much for
your lovely poem which you so kindly sent us. Barbara
and I were thrilled to read it and to know that you
included us in the mailing.

Have been meaning to write you ever since I
returned from the trip, but, as you can imagine, I
have been snowed under with work here, home, and
composing as well.

In Tbilisi (Tiflis) I met a composer named
Vladimir Sarokin who used a text of yours, "Six Beat
Blues," and he wanted you to know that he was very
pleased and honored to have made a setting of your
poem in a song. I gave him your address and said that
you would be happy to hear from him, but that in addi-
tion I would give you the message.

The trip was terrific; we went to Moscow,
Leningrad, Tiflis and Kiev. And then there was a concert
of our music in Moscow which was very well received. Then
I spent a week in Holland and a week in Rome. Terrific,
but exhausting.

All the best, and keep in touch!

PS. Barbara sent the address of the friend of yours
in Moscow, but mails were so slow until I never got
it. Sorry I didn't get to look him up. In fact, I
am still getting a card or two from friends from here
who wrote me while I was in the USSR.

143 Belmont Street
Englewood, N. J.

Feb. 27, 1959

Dear Langston,

Greetings! - where ever you are! and thanks so much for the Jazz Society news letter and other material that you have been sending me.

All goes well, and I should have let you know that we moved out to the above non-New York locale in early January. Push had about come to shove in the apartment for us - just try composing in the living room sometime on your day off! -, so we made the plunge into near-by-suburbia. Looks like it's going to work out fine, and of course is wonderful for the kiddies. Jenny is now 7½, Melinda 17 months, and another coming this June! Man, things pile up!

The phone is LOWELL 7-4723, if you need to call me ever.

Not much doing at the moment, though the Inter-racial Chorus has commissioned a cantata from me which they are performing in Carnegie May 17th. Hope you can come. Will try to remember to send you an announcement.

All good wishes, and keep in touch. Sincerely,

BROADCAST MUSIC, INC.

March 23, 1959

Dear Langston:

Thank you for sending me the copy of your
recent Chicago Defender article on "Commissioned
Music for Churches." It's excellent, and very
thoughtful and considerate of you to do a piece
on us composers.

Very glad to know of Margaret's new work
and its success. I know her well but seldom see
her these days.

Not much news, except that I just wrote a
background score for TV. It is for the series
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY which is on CBS-TV
(Channel 2) every Sunday from 6:30 to 7 pm.

My show is called "Submarine!", and it will
be on the air Sunday April 12th. If you're home,
tune in.

All the best!

May 8, 1959

Dear Dr. & Mrs. Gaines,

Mr. Hughes regrets that he cannot attend
the reception for Ulysses Kay at your home on the
17th of May following the concert at Town Hall.

He will be in Bermuda on a lecture
tour, not returning until the end of the month.

NEWS

FROM THE NEWS DEPARTMENT
BROADCAST MUSIC INCORPORATED
589 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 17
RUSSELL SANJEK, DIRECTOR...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ULYSSES KAY NAMED TO PRIX ITALIA JURY
COMPOSER FLIES TO TRIESTE FOR INTERNATIONAL JUDGING

Ulysses Kay, the distinguished young American composer, flies to Trieste September 22 to serve on the International Music Jury of the Prix Italia, meeting there September 26 through October 3. The annual awards of Prix Italia, established in 1948 by the Italian broadcasting industry, are made for outstanding international radio and television achievement in the categories of music, literature, and documentaries.

Each competing country appoints an "entries jury" to select specimens for the international jury. When the citizen of a participating nation is named to one of the three competition juries, his country can make no entries in that category. This year, with Kay named to the music jury, the United States is eligible in only the literary and documentary categories. Four years ago, Henry Brant's cantata _December_ won the music award, the first time an American entry was so honored.

Seymour Siegal, Director of Radio Station WNYC and American Delegate to the competition, is Permanent Secretary to the U. S. National Industry Advisory Committee. The American entries jury, made up of Gilbert Seldes, Marya Mannes, Stockton Helfrich and Davidson Taylor, chose _Anne Frank_, the _Memory and Meaning_ and _Population Explosion_ in the documentary category, and the Play of the Week production of _Medea_ in the literary section.

Ulysses Kay represented the United States last year as one of four leading American composers selected to visit the USSR in the official international cultural exchange program. The 43-year-old, Tuscon, Arizona, native is Consultant to Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) on Contemporary Music Projects.

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April 16, 1963

Dear Langston,

Greetings and compliments! Am most happy to be
reading your article (and the other two also) on the
problems of the Negro writer... in the current
<u>Saturday Review.</u>

Yes, things are tough all over, but I'm glad
that you all are speaking to the point. Keep up the
good fight.

SERVING MUSIC SINCE 1940