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"Ulysses Simpson Kay (January 7, 1917 in Tucson, Arizona – May 20, 1995 in Englewood, New Jersey) was an American composer. His music is mostly neoclassical in style. Life and career Kay, the nephew of the classic jazz musician King Oliver, studied piano, violin and saxophone.De Lerma, Dominique- Rene. "African Heritage Symphonic Series". Liner note essay. Cedille Records CDR061. He attended the University of Arizona, where he was encouraged by the African-American composer William Grant Still. He went for graduate work to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and there worked under Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers. Ulysses Kay met the eminent neoclassical composer Paul Hindemith in the summer of 1941 at the Berkshire Music Center and followed Hindemith to Yale for a formative year of study from 1941 to 1942. After a stint as a musician in the United States Navy during World War II, Kay studied at Columbia University under Otto Luening with the assistance of a grant from the Julius Rosenwald Fund. In addition to this prize, Kay received a series of five other significant awards in the year following his discharge from the Navy including the Alice M. Ditson Fellowship, a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an award from the American Composers and American Broadcasting Company, a $500 award from the third annual George Gershwin Memorial Contest for "A Short Overture," and a $700 award from the American Composers Alliance for his "Suite for Orchestra." Following this successful period, he lived and studied further in Rome from 1949 to 1953 thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship, the Rome Prize and a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship. Kay worked for Broadcast Music, Inc., a performing arts organization, from 1953 to 1968. In 1968 he was appointed distinguished professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York. After two decades teaching there, he retired. As a composer Kay was known primarily for his symphonic and choral compositions. He also wrote five operas. His final opera, Frederick Douglass, was mounted in April 1991 at the New Jersey State Opera with Kevin Maynor in the title role and Klara Barlow as Helen Pitts Douglass. A resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, Ulysses Kay died due to complications of Parkinson's disease at the age of 78 at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center on May 20, 1995.Sullivan, Ronald. "Ulysses Kay, Prolific Composer And Educator, Is Dead at 78", The New York Times, May 23, 1995. Accessed September 21, 2011. "Ulysses Kay, a professor of music and a prolific composer of five operas, 20 large orchestral works and scores of choral, chamber and film compositions, died on Saturday in Englewood Hospital in Englewood, N.J. He was 78 and lived in Teaneck, N.J. The cause was Parkinson's disease, his family said." Operas * The Juggler of Our Lady (composed 1956, premiered 1962) * The Boor (composed 1955, premiered 1968) * The Capitoline Venus (composed 1969, premiered 1971) * Jubilee, (composed 1974–1976, premiered 1976) * Frederick Douglass (composed 1979–85, premiered 1991) Sources *Program notes by Dominique-René de Lerma for the African Heritage Symphonic Series Volume II (Cedille Records CDR 90000 061) References External links *Center for Black Music Research *Ulysses Kay interview, July 20, 1985. Also translated into Japanese and posted *Finding aid to Ulysses Kay papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Category:1917 births Category:1995 deaths Category:20th- century classical composers Category:African-American classical composers Category:African-American male classical composers Category:African-American opera composers Category:People from Teaneck, New Jersey Category:Musicians from Tucson, Arizona Category:University of Arizona alumni Category:Eastman School of Music alumni Category:Deaths from Parkinson's disease Category:Pupils of Paul Hindemith Category:Pupils of Bernard Rogers Category:Fulbright Scholars Category:American male classical composers Category:American classical composers Category:Male opera composers Category:20th-century American composers Category:20th-century American male musicians "
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"David Edward Stannard (born 1941) is an American historian and Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii. He is particularly known for his book American Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 1992), in which he argues that the genocide against the Native American population was the largest genocide in history. Early life He was born in a Jewish household to Florence E. Harwood Stannard and David L. Stannard, a businessman. He served in the armed forces and worked in the publishing industry between 1959 and 1968. In 1966, he married Valerie M. Nice. The couple, subsequently divorced, have two sons. Career After returning to college in 1968, Stannard graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco State University in 1971. He then went to Yale and obtained an M.A. degree in history (1972), a Master of Philosophy in American Studies (1973), and a Ph.D. in American Studies in 1975. He has taught at Yale University, Stanford University, the University of Colorado, and the University of Hawaii. He has lectured throughout the United States, in Europe, and in Asia. He is currently a writer and professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Hawaii, where he was awarded the Regents' Medal for Excellence in teaching. He has contributed dozens of articles to scholarly journals in a variety of fields. =American Holocaust= Stannard's research on the indigenous peoples of North and South America (including Hawaii)INTERVIEW: David Stannard. has produced the conclusion that Native Americans had undergone the "worst human holocaust the world had ever witnessed, roaring across two continents non-stop for four centuries and consuming the lives of countless tens of millions of people."Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide? While acknowledging that the majority of the indigenous peoples fell victim to the ravages of European disease, he estimates that almost 100 million died in what he calls the American Holocaust.Stannard, p. x (quotation), p. 151 (death toll estimate). In response to Stannard's figures, political scientist Rudolph Rummel has estimated that over the centuries of European colonization about 2 million to 15 million American indigenous people were the victims of what he calls democide, which excludes military battles and unintentional deaths in Rummel's definition. The vast majority of the victims of democide were in Latin America. "Even if these figures are remotely true," writes Rummel, "then this still make this subjugation of the Americas one of the bloodier, centuries long, democides in world history."Cook on Stannard, p. 12; Rummel's quote and estimate from his website, about midway down the page, after footnote 82\. Rummel's estimate is presumably not a single democide, but is a total of multiple democides, since there were many different governments involved. According to Guenter Lewy, Stannard's perspective has been joined by scholars Kirkpatrick Sale, Ben Kiernan, Lenore A. Stiffarm, Phil Lane, Jr., and Ward Churchill. Samuel R. Cook of The American Indian Quarterly wrote: Alfred Crosby of The Boston Sunday Globe wrote: Personal life Stannard is the longtime partner of Hawaiian nationalist, University of Hawaii professor emeritus, and author Haunani-Kay Trask. Works Stannard's published books include: * Death in America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975), * The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change (Oxford University Press, 1977), * Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory (Oxford University Press, 1980), * Before the Horror: The Population of Hawaii on the Eve of Western Contact (University of Hawaii Press, 1989), * American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World (Oxford University Press, 1992), and * Honor Killing: How the Infamous "Massie Affair" Transformed Hawaii (Viking Press, 2005). The Puritan Way of Death was referred to in The New York Review of Books as one of the handful of books—and the only one by an American—that together constituted "the most original and important historical advance of the 1970s."Lawrence Stone, "Death in New England," New York Review of Books, October 26, 1978. Shrinking History, published in 1980, was chosen by Psychology Today as one of the 'best books of the year'.STANNARD, David Edward His other writings have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, and Japanese. In American Holocaust, he argues that the destruction of the aboriginal peoples of the Americas, in a "string of genocide campaigns" by Europeans and their descendants, was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world.David Stannard (1992). American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World, Oxford University Press, ."far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world." Although praised by Howard Zinn, Vine Deloria, Dee Brown and others, Stannard's argument generated a great deal of critical commentary. He responded to much of it in a lengthy essay entitled "Uniqueness as Denial: The Politics of Genocide Scholarship", published in Is the Holocaust Unique?, edited by Alan S. Rosenbaum (Westview Press, 1996). Before the Horror has focused on Hawaii and the Pacific. Having dramatically and upwardly revised the estimated population of Hawaii at the time of Western contact from about 200,000 to between 800,000 and 1,000,000—a change that forced major rethinking about the entirety of Hawaii's history—that work is now being used as the foundation for re-examinations of indigenous population histories throughout the Pacific.(See, for example, Patrick V. Kirch and Jean- Louis Rallu, eds)., The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies (University of Hawaii Press, 2007) In 2005 Stannard's book Honor Killing used an infamous rape and murder case of the 1930s—one that involved Clarence Darrow arguing his final spectacular defense—to open up a detailed social and political examination of the Hawaiian Islands under US colonial rule. In its review The New York Review of Books described Honor Killing as "finely written and meticulously researched... a biopsy of the racist and imperial arrogance that are an integral, though seldom acknowledged, motif of the history of America." Awards Stannard was the recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, American Council of Learned Societies and other research fellowships and awards. References External links * Profile. * Category:Writers from Hawaii Category:1941 births Category:Living people Category:University of Hawaii faculty Category:Yale University faculty Category:Stanford University faculty Category:University of Colorado faculty Category:San Francisco State University alumni Category:Yale University alumni Category:Historians of genocides "