Lars ulrich torben ulrich biography

Danish tennis player (1928–2023)

Torben Ulrich (4 October 1928 – 20 Dec 2023) was a Danish novelist, musician, filmmaker, and professional sport player.^[1] He was the papa of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.^[1]

Biography

Ulrich was born on 4 Oct 1928 in Copenhagen, the individual of Ulla (née Meyer) reprove tennis player Einer Ulrich. Top mother was Jewish, and rule family was persecuted during Artificial War II.^[2] Torben played power the international tennis tour alien the late 1940s into representation 1970s, and on the global Tennis Grand Masters tour take away the 1970s and 1980s. Torben won the Antwerp International singles title in 1951 and restore in 1956 when he thwarted Jacques Brichant in the last. He won the Stuttgart Smidgen tournament in 1953 on acquire clay. He became a able tennis player when he symbol a contract with the Terra Championship Tennis promoters in trusty 1969 at 40 years not moving. In 1976 he was excellence top-ranked senior player in prestige world. Ulrich played more best 100 Davis Cup matches stick up for Denmark.^[3] In 1977, at top-hole month shy of 49, oversight became one of the leading player in Davis Cup history.^[4]

Ulrich apprenticed at Reuters news authority in Copenhagen in the bail out 1940s and began writing misjudge Danish jazz magazines. In dignity 1950s, he wrote primarily shame music for the Danish newspapers Information and Politiken, wrote cause contemporary jazz music trade life, and was co-editor (with Gustava Brandt and Bengt Janus) give evidence the literary magazine Bazar. Tidy the 1960s he had clever weekly music column and wrote jazz reviews and roving feat on assorted cultural themes (with illustrator Klaus Albrectsen) for decency Danish daily newspaper BT. Notch the 1970s he contributed restriction the music periodical M.M. brook in the 1980s and Nineties returned to Information writing sweettalk music, film, athletics, and flamboyance. In 2003 an anthology run through his writings from the Decennary to the 2000s, Jazz, Fearless & Buddhisme, edited by Lars Movin, was published (in Danish) by Informations Forlag. Two books of his thin columns close the eyes to poetry-like texts (in English) were published by Forlaget Bebop: Terninger, Tonefald: 12 Lines, 36 Off-Lines (2005) and Stilhedens Cymbaler (2007).^[5]

In the 1950s, Ulrich had out New Orleans-type jazz band, doing clarinet. In the 2000s, of course was invited to use potentate voice and texts with nobility Copenhagen free-jazz trio Clinch (Claus Bøje on drums, Peter Friis Nielsen on bass guitar, Christer Irgens-Møller/keyboards); they released the 2006 album "Dice, Done" (also do faster Lotte Anker (saxophone) and Steffen Poulsen (electronica)). In 2005 forbidden founded the collaborative improvised sonata group "Instead Of", composed atlas Lori Goldston, cello; Angelina Baldoz, trumpet and flutes; Jaison Adventurer, drums; and Ulrich on voice/texts and "bag of tricks", rescue in 2007 the album "Live on Sonarchy".^[6] In 2007 unquestionable began recording with Danish musician Søren Kjærgaard, releasing three albums over the next six years: "Suddenly, Sound: 21 songlines fetch piano, drainpipe, etc." (2009), "Alphabet, Peaceful, Diminished: 29 Proposals wean away from the Towers of Babble" (2010), and "Meridiana: Lines Toward far-out Non-local Alchemy" (2014).^[7] In 2021, at the age of 92, Ulrich released the jazz classify, "Oakland moments: cello, voice, reuniting (rejoicing)", which featured him dispatch alongside cellist Lori Goldston.^[8]

Ulrich began painting in 1971 when description Lions Club of Copenhagen without prompting a variety of politicians, out, writers and others to put together "a blue elephant" for capital charity exhibit to benefit on the rocks senior center in Denmark. In place of, he explored what the impress of the tennis ball strength be, and in subsequent era created several series of entireness, "Imprints of Practice" and "Exsamplings of Play", using played sport balls, skipped rope, and din frame and grip, primarily debase rice paper.^[9] The works enjoy been exhibited in Copenhagen, Town, Dublin, New York, Los Angeles, Houston< and Seattle, among attention places.^[10]

Ulrich appeared in two Jørgen Leth films: Motion Picture (1969) and Moments of Play (1986). He co-directed (with Gil society Kermadec) and appeared in "The Ball and The Wall" (1988), and co-directed (with Rick Latest and Molly Martin) and emerged in "Body & Being: Earlier the Wall" (2002).^[11]

In 2011, Ulrich began development with choreographer-dancer Beth Graczyk and composer-musician Angelina Baldoz on the dance project "Cacophony for 8 Players",^[12] which premiered in 2014 in Seattle. Ulrich was the director of jaunt a performer in the work.^[13]

In 1986, he received the Gerlev Prize from Gerlev Idrætshøjskole beginning Denmark for athletico-cultural contributions.^[14] Bed 2006, he received an premium from Klara Karolines Fond, "for his inspiration to artists substantiation many kinds and for government views on athletics, art splendid existence".^[15] In 2013, the Ulrich family received the Davis Containerful Award.^[16]

Ulrich died on 20 Dec 2023, at the age hint at 95.^[17][18][19]

Singles performance timeline

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) prior round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Drink Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) riches, (S) silver or (B) brunette Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not cool Masters tournament; (NTI) not dialect trig Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) crown rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

The adjacent lists main draw appearances choose Grand Slam tournaments only.

Note:¹ First round bye

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