When Bridge Records released Music of Ursula Mamlok, Vol. 1, composer Ursula Mamlok was 85 years old and living in Berlin, the city where she was born. Mamlok hadn't lived there since 1939, when she escaped with her family to America just ahead of Nazi forces. The list of Mamlok's teachers read like a who's-who of who is important in the twentieth century: Ernst Krenek, Roger Sessions, Stefan Wolpe, and Ralph Shapey among them. Mamlok adopted serialism in the early '60s during her tutelage with Wolpe and refined it under ...
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When Bridge Records released Music of Ursula Mamlok, Vol. 1, composer Ursula Mamlok was 85 years old and living in Berlin, the city where she was born. Mamlok hadn't lived there since 1939, when she escaped with her family to America just ahead of Nazi forces. The list of Mamlok's teachers read like a who's-who of who is important in the twentieth century: Ernst Krenek, Roger Sessions, Stefan Wolpe, and Ralph Shapey among them. Mamlok adopted serialism in the early '60s during her tutelage with Wolpe and refined it under Shapey; she initially published her music through the legendary house of McGinnis & Marx, the same concern that brought out Wolpe's first American scores. Along the way, Mamlok quietly picked up major foundation grants and a Guggenheim Fellow while teaching composition at various New York area universities, finally retiring from the Manhattan School of Music.However, Ursula Mamlok never became famous, nor was her work widely recorded; the CRI label managed to get out two CDs of her...
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