Event Details
KAY: Ulysses Kay CentennialUlysses Kay Centennial
Event Dates:
Friday, January 6, 2017Jan 6, 2017, 8:00pm at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Seattle, WA
Saturday, January 7, 2017Jan 7, 2017, 8:00pm at Holy Rosary Church, Seattle, WA
Sunday, January 8, 2017Jan 8, 2017, 7:00pm at Christ Episcopal Church, Tacoma, WA
Description
For the first concert of its 24th season, The Esoterics will celebrate the centennial of African-American composer, Ulysses Kay. Kay's choral work includes settings of Psalms, revolutionary texts, Christmas carols, wartime poems, verses by Shakespeare, Lincoln, Teasdale, Dunbar, as well as folk-songs, fiddle-tunes, and sea shanties. Kay is one of the most under-sung composers of the American Neoclassic era, and this concert will be the first time that these works will be performed together.
KAY: Ulysses Kay Centennial. Graphic image by David Gellman
Ensemble Photos
The Esoterics. Photo by Jonathan You (Dec 2023)