Liam Teague
YVONNE WEBB
PAN virtuoso Liam Teague continues to rise in musical academia.
The accomplished arranger is now professor of presidential research, scholarship and artistry at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in the United States. Teague was already a professor of music at NIU before his promotion. He is also head of Steelpan Studies at NIU and co-director of the NIU steelband.
Teague’s professorship is the latest on his list of accomplishments which includes the Humming Bird Medal (Silver) and awards for his creation of music that has moved audiences across the globe.
In Europe, he is known as the “Paginini of pan,” a comparison to the Italian composer and violin virtuoso of the 19th century.
Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, in congratulating Teague on his professorship, said he is “taking the very best of ourselves and materialising this into the best that the world has seen.” Gadsby-Dolly said his ability to expand the international steelpan movement is laudable and hoped other steelpan arrangers and players would also carry the national instrument to new frontiers at home and abroad.
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"Gadsby-Dolly said she hoped other steelpan arrangers and players would also carry the national instrument to new frontiers at home and abroad."
DOLLY DOH KNOW how many DECADES now steelpan arrangers and players and PAN TUNERS and HELPERS carrying the national instrument to new frontiers at home and abroad. She should be looking to ORGANIZE some SPECIAL AWARDS for the THOUSANDS of EXPATS who been taking the STEELPAN to new frontiers ABROAD since the LATE FORTIES.
Claude
Ah with you on this one. The Dolly really rub me the wrong way on this one. Ah mean like WTF... Look how the Dolly have me cursing so early in the day.
bugs
What alluh vexing about...It's "Professor" Teague...
But Waynerhanut
This was posted over a month ago in the WST forum. ODW even added music to the post.
You need to hang in the forum more so you won't get your news so late.
check https://whensteeltalks.ning.com/forum/topics/liam-teague-has-been-na...
bugs