Dolores Claman
Dolores Claman ( born July 6, 1927 in Vancouver ) is a Canadian composer.
Life
Claman studied piano in her hometown, and then composition at the University of Southern California; on the advice of Lawrence Tibbett she went to the renowned Juilliard School of Music for further study of piano and composition, for which she received a scholarship. At the beginning of the 1950s appeared with the ballet Le Rêve and the musical comedy Timber! first stage works. After moving to London Claman worked for Independent Television and the theaters of the West End; in the UK, she also met her future husband, the songwriter Richard Morris, with whom she moved to Toronto in 1958 and over the course of nearly 40 years created over three thousand jingles for advertising.
In 1963 the Musical Mr. Scrooge by Charles Dickens; In 1968 the television piece in the Klondike. Work for films, documentaries and TV shows followed. 1967 wrote Claman A Place to Stand ( also known as Ontari -ari - ario ) for the same name, winning an Academy Award, short film for Expo 67 The following year, was created for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the play The Hockey Theme for the Presentation of the Hockey League on television, the "second anthem of Canada " has evolved over the years. 2004 processed Claman against CBC, which had put the piece as a ringtone available. 2010, the piece into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame was recorded. 1969 wrote Claman Look Out World for the Canada Games.
Between 1965 and 1970, formed Claman with her husband and brothers Jerry and Rudy Toth, who worked as arrangers, the Quartet Productions.