odw: I dug up an OLD REVIEW of the PANORAMA PROCESS for you!!!

[Claude Gonzales]

PANORAMA PAIN

By Terry Joseph
January 27, 2006

In 1963, the inaugural Best Road March Steelband Competition (Panorama) attracted two dozen bands, ten advancing directly from prelims to playoffs via a relatively painless process as distinct from this year, when we have a whopping 56 semi-finalists, 42 of which will perform sequentially in a single and predictably excruciating day.

Let us agree: No one will sit through a 15-hour show except tied to the chair, a trademark of torture, with intrinsic discomfiture exacerbated by the fact that three-fifths of the time must be spent enduring inordinately long band changes. And mark you, this projection is predicated upon a punctual start, set for 9 a.m. on Sunday February 12, a time that will find few Trinis at the Savannah which, in turn, may well inspire the first band to create justification for further delay.

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[Russell Providence]

Mr. Gonzales, can you, or anyone on this forum please share with me, of the original twenty four (24) that participated in 1963,

1. Who were METRONOMES
2. Where was METRONOMES from?
3. If METRONOMES survived, what are they called, or how are they known today?

[Jay Cumberbatch]

Metronome was a band from Tragarete Road New Town lead by Earl La Pierre. It no longer exists.

[Claude Gonzales]

Thanks!!! Any more details?

[Mercer Ramdoo]

If not mistaken, I think Metronomes were from Newtown in Woodbrook.