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youUl end up doing that when you grow up on Beethoven." But then, *'that was the only game in town, what Dolores best at.
In 1967 she produced with her husband an Oscar-winning 20-minute film — A Place to Stand — which contains what:hasbecome-0nta-rio's National Anthem — Ontariariario. Claman also
Hockey Night in Canada. Again it started as a jingle which eventually-turned Jnt^ the theme we are all familiar with, a theme which during the Stanley Cup Play-Offs is heard almost daily across the country.
**rm still pleased with it, 1 don't think it's dated," says thecomposer of the now 21 -year-old theme.
If there are any regrets in
Woc^ey Nigfif in Canada 'theme is Claman'Bfam composition
FIRST PAGE of Dolores Claman's score of "Hockey Nightln Canada" ("La Soiree du Hockey"), published by Vine Maple Music of Vancouver.
On Granville Street, just opposite Pacific Press, there is a special shop — Botibol Antiques. One Friday morning last month a passerby looked at > two chairs in the windows-entered the.shop and disptfssed!^<iifi|h the^ wom^n wKo'Welcom<^ i^jtlTe natufe of the chairs aiid their cost. The conversation wandered and the visitor eventually left — without realizing who she was talking with.
Dolores Morris, who owns the shop with her husband Richard, would never explain to a potential customer the nature of her own fame. But ask any hockey fan to sing along the theme of Hockey Night in Canada and the
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response will bring forward the one thing Dolores Morris is perhaps best known for these days.
The story of Dolores Claman, as the composer is kno>yn, is not a recent one. Actually ii^ that stretcfaes arp the wbricHa story which features a musical pioneer who today has very little opportunity to share her craft with newcomers to the field or to practise the art form that niade her famous many years go.
Claman ("We lost the y when my father came to New York and ordered letterheads they made a mistake and
there was no time to change it.") was born in Vancouver
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where her parents still live. But Dolores spent her years, all over the world: USC, Juil-liard, Spain, England and New York have all been home for a while. Claman "never moved back until well after I was married." ; ' ' Shb ' it^ef^ musical career with the clear aim of becoming a concert pianist. But when she realized that she would not become a first rate pianist, she switched to composing and working with other people: singers, dancers and choreographers.
Claman found herself in London when independent televisipn was just starting there and soon enough began writing various T.V. themes. In New York, the composer wrote music for theatre revues off-Broadway; enjoying it immensely.
Eventually Claman and her husband found themselves back in Canada and within a short while '^turned into the largest jingle house Canada ever had." They worked in Toronto and soon enough opened an additional office in M&ntreal.
It was a team work:" I wrote the music and my husband wrote the words. He is very clever with that sort of thing."
Excelling in jingles looked quite strange at times, Claman recalls. "You never think that
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wrote music for several films, but those were so bad she wants to forget about them completely.
From jingles for all the car companies and all the airlines ("even Air France"), which generated about 35 awards for advertising music ("We never did Coke or Pepsi but that's about it **), Claman got to write the opening theme for
Claman's professional life she is wise enough to keep them to herself. But still one senses that there is a sort of disappointment that all her work "was done to order." And today she still confesses that she "wouldn't mind doing some film. I have a talent for melody and for interesting chord changes, for a strong theme. I know what 1 do."
The antique shop started with Richard Morris, Dolores' husband. "When we were in Spain he got bored playing tennis." And being always a porcelain specialist, it was almost natural to pursue the interest here in Vancouver.
Richard, of a Sephardic family from Portugal, and Dolores, whose father was Jewish, are immersed with their antiques these days. And their children continue in their parents' footsteps. Michael is involved in the shop and Madeleine is a singer who did a lot of underground music in Vancouver.
When 1 called Dolores Claman she tried to avoid this interview, suggesting that there is nothing really to talk about. After spending an hour with this fascinating woman in her antique shop, I discovered a mos't remarkable world and a piece of music history of which not many people are aware.
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