Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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DADIMA by Simran Claire, the final Civic Engagement Quartet Recital, merges two cultures in a beautiful and seemingly unnoticeable way to tell a story of life and family.

"DADIMA (meaning grandmother in Punjabi) tells the story of my grandmother's life, beginning on her wedding day in Punjab, 1960. Using the framework of Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben, DADIMA is a tale of arranged marriage in four vignettes: Vyah (wedding), Muklava (first sight), Pyar (love) and Khushi (happiness).

I wanted to create something that would make art song more accessible to the Punjabi community, to empower broader audiences to engage with this historically European medium." - Simran Claire

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Piano Kimberley-Ann Bartczak
Edited by Nicholas Borg

Chapters:
0:00 Prologue "When Dadima..."
1:37 Part I VYAH (Wedding)
3:32 Prologue "What do you see?"
4:15 Part II MUKLAVA (First Sight)
6:44 Prologue "WHEN DADIMA WAS TWENTY"
7:15 Part III PYAR (Love)
12:22 Khushi (Happiness)
15:14 Credits