sentences:  Palmgren nominated McKay's violin sonata, composed at Eastman, for the Pulitzer Prize.Howard Hanson invited McKay back to Eastman many times between 1925 and 1960 for performances of the composer's music.McKay's "From the Black Hills" was performed by the Eastman Symphony and conducted by Hanson in the first American Composers Festival at Eastman in 1925, along with an early work by Aaron Copland and music of other contemporary composers.