Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - American music adjudicators presiding over the 29th Biennial T&T Music Festival, taking place at venues across the country, have put in a request with event co-ordinator Marie-Diane Dupres to visit the panyard of BP Renegades Steel Orchestra. It seems they still can’t get over the impressive panmanship they heard from the nine-time National Panorama champion at Sunday’s gala opening, held at Queen’s Hall in St Ann’s, Port-of-Spain. They want to know how Renegades, led by Everald “Redman” Watson, achieved such silky presentations of Frederic Chopin’s works when some of the world’s leading musicians aren’t able to capture the intent of the composer. Desmond Waithe is Renegades’ classical director. Dr John Paul Johnson, from Wichita State University, Dr Jan Harrington and Dr Carmen Helena Pellez, both of Indiana University, expressed delight over the band’s deliveries at the gala.
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