by Sandra Blood
Is there an elite realm of pan?
How should an elite steel orchestra be characterised? Does T&T comprise elite steel orchestras – yielding Bach, Beethoven or Tchaikovsky-quality music worthy of concert fees being $1,500 or US$250 per entrant?
On the When Steel Talks site, a March 18, 2018 piece: “UK pan players invade Trinidad for Panorama 2018,” written by Shareen Gray, highly commends the 2018 large-band Panorama champs’ winning piece – Year for Love as arranged by Duvonne Stewart – describing it as “a classic piece of music that will be going down in history.”
This, her maiden visit, Gray, president of Steel Pan Agency in London, UK, articulated, “it’s after seeing the Renegades Steel Orchestra perform on TV in the UK during the Panorama Semi-Finals, I booked my ticket two days after to attend the Panorama Finals…,” alluding to, “’four’ universities in the USA will be studying this piece of music for theses.”
The pan manufacturer’s entire North and South Panorama Finals’ experiences brought realisation home to her, “It became clear to me, that Trinidad is truly the Mecca for pan ‘players’.”
In the ‘Mecca’ today, however, while many pannists are not being hauled into jail for ‘making (pan) noise’, they feel disrespected for other reasons as effects of myopic visions take centre stage – no true worth, no foreseeable benefits.
Who benefits from the royalties when the music is used to benefit the world?
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Claude, imagine we would have to put a SKILLED ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM in place to TEST the true worth and scope of the national instrument...something that hundreds of pan players across the globe already know.
Who benefits from the royalties when the music is used to benefit the world?
Hello, hello, hello Pan Trinbago, what is the true worth and scope of this instrument called pan?
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You will have to put a SKILLED ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM in place to test the true worth and scope of the national instrument.
And with FORTEAU and JOSEPH getting ready to take the reins of PAN TRINBAGO for the NEXT NINE YEARS, we will still be asking that question as many of us go to our graves!!!
Do you know that PAN TUNERS in Trinidad are still struggling to source QUALITY DRUMS? Doctor Lincoln Douglas promised to solve that problem 5 years ago!!! Well, doh bother DOCTOR DOLLY -- she TOO BUSY to even investigate the problem.
But EVERYBODY LOVE THE PAN -- TOO BAD!!!