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David Claman: Aasai Neelaavey

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Aasai Neelaavey means “lovely moon” in Tamil. While living in Chennai (a.k.a. Madras) India in 1999, I decided to try my hand at setting some Tamil lyrics to music. The original poem is by Mr. S. Vaidheeswaran and mournfully ponders a lost love. After returning to the U.S. I was unsuccessful in finding a Karnatik singer who could sing the melody in Tamil and read Western notation. I set the project aside for a few years but the melody stayed with me. I then revised and rewrote the song for alto saxophone and guitar. Nevertheless, the piece retains its songlike character and the rhythms of Tamil give the melodic line a quality it would not have otherwise.

David Claman received a B.A. in the music of South India from Wesleyan in 1982. He then began studying composition with John McDonald at the Longy School in Cambridge. He received an M.M. in theory and composition from The University of Colorado in 1993, and a Ph.D. in composition from Princeton University in 2001. His principal teachers at Princeton were Steve Mackey and Paul Lansky.

He is an Assistant Professor at Lehman College-CUNY, where he teaches music theory and electronic music. Recordings of his music are available on the Albany, Innova, Capstone, Bridge, White Pine, and Vox Novus labels. In 1998 he received a fellowship from The American Institute of Indian Studies. He has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy. He has received commissions from The American Composers Forum, Tara Helen O’Connor, The Cygnus Ensemble, Christopher Creviston and Oren Fader, The Da Capo Chamber Players, Tufts University, The Zephyrus Duo, and The Cadillac Moon Ensemble. In 2012 he received a Fromm Foundation Commissioning Grant from Harvard University. www.davidclaman.com

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from meander, released June 11, 2018

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Duo Montagnard (Joe Murphy, saxophone and Matt Slotkin, guitar) was formed in 2002 and has performed over 300 concerts in 50 states, eight Canadian provinces, and twenty countries on six continents. The duo has commissioned, premiered and recorded more than thirty works for guitar and saxophone. ... more

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