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It is IMPERATIVE that BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE & MARCUS ASH & the EX-VEEPEE call an EMERGENCY MEETING of STEELBAND LEADERS to REDEFINE the CRITERIA for a PANORAMA ARRANGEMENT ...

... after all the recent NEGATIVE EXPOSURE.

We survived (and even enhanced) the CRACKSHOT CRISIS but when THE MUSIC is challenged and there is NO ANSWER to the critique ... perhaps then it is time to listen to THE MESSENGER.

The fundamental question

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It is time for the NEW PRO of PAN TRINBAGO to come out and issue a statement defending the INTEGRITY OF PANORAMA JUDGING 2020

You have MARCUS ASH and you have the EX-VEEPEE and you have the SECRETARY who are all  very knowledgeable people in the world of MUSIC and PANORAMA MUSIC.

Starting with SILVER STARS not being in the FINALS; continuing with EXODUS finishing SO LOW; an

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I hope that DALTON NARINE is doing all right ... I missed his COMMENTARY THIS YEAR!!!

But I was thinking about  him more in the CONTEXT OF FILM than PAN!!!

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Well what I want to know is how IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD of PAN HISTORIANS and PAN GENIUSES and PAN COMMENTATORS -- nobody could COUNTER ALEXICA?

Man does put up ALL KINDA ah GLOWING ARTICLES about PANORAMA MUSIC and how it should be GLOBALIZED like FIFA and the OLYMPICS and THE SUPER BOWL -- but when ah NO NAME LADY come and CRASH THE PARTY and EXPOSE THE FALLACY of the "CALYPSO ARRANGEMENTS"

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Well I took a chance -- And ah went in ah PANORAMA DANCE ... ALEXICA BRUCK DEM UP ... ALEXICA BRUCK DEM UP!!!

THE JUDGES was DANCING and SHAKING DEY BODY LINE ... WHEN ALEXICA BRUCK DEM UP!!!

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Well since NOBODY (in the vast pool of SO CALLED PAN LOVERS) has come to the DEFENSE of DUVONE STEWART -- I am FORCED to do a FORMAL MUSICAL DEFENSE of HIS ARRANGEMENT ... ME of all people, IMAGINE!!!

Now bugs and odw and Dr. deLight will jump right in and say that I am contradicting myself. But the ONE THING that I learn in life is that there are TWO SIDES TO EVERY COIN ... so let me begin MY DEFENSE OF DUVONE STEWART (formal MUSICAL DEFENSE -- a

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How ALEXICA Lxc ADAMS became the MOST POWERFUL VOICE in PANORAMA MUSIC ... quite by accident

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A LESSON ON CALYPSO -- for PANORAMA ARRANGERS!!! And make sure you apply it in 2021 ... imagine ALEXICA have to remind DEM ARRANGERS to PUT CALYPSO in the CALYPSO!!!

Now yuh take ah TRINIDAD CHILD born
Not so long ago
The first thing THE CHILD learn
Is to SING AH CALYPSO
So DUVONE and DEM should be proud and glad
Of what OTHERS WISH they had
And on PANORAMA NITE
JAM the CALYPSO and not EUROPEAN SHITE ...

(Now I w

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NOBODY eh ANSWER ME and ALEXICA Lxc ADAMS as yet -- and it is really IRONIC that both she and I bounced from ISLAND to ISLAND in our TEENAGE YEARS ...

ALEXICA asked the question: If you NEVER PLAYED THE ORIGINAL SONG for almost FOUR MINUTES in the ARRANGEMENT -- how could the JUDGES give you POINTS for DEVELOPMENT of the ORIGINAL COMPOSITION.

THAT IS HER QUESTION ... but here is MY QUESTION!!!

Yuh

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AQUIL ARRINDELL, MARCUS ASH, MR. VEE PEE, MERRYTONESTOTHEBONE, KENDALL WILLIAMS ... Please, one ah allyuh come and defend the FOUR MINUTES, NAH!!!

Ah never SEE ONE WOMAN put out a CRITIQUE ON THE PANORAMA and NOBODY COULD REFUTE IT. And she is not even AN ARRANGER -- she is a PAN PLAYER!!!

If THE LADY is right and DUVONE spend 4 MINUTES playing GOD KNOWS WHAT MUSIC that DID NOT INCLUDE THE SONG

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So much people does write all these ARTICLES about PAN and PANORAMA and the JUDGES and the HIGH QUALITY OF THE MUSIC and praising all dem arrangers -- so ah want to know how allyuh let ONE WOMAN ...

... pelt ah set ah BIG STONE at PANORAMA MUSIC and NOBODY eh challenge THE WOMAN and put she in she place.

I envy that ALEXICA Lxc ADAMS woman, ah wish ah coulda go and SHAKE SHE HAN ....

Just when odw and dem push me down in ah PAN PRECIPICE -- this

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Jadon dazzles as Katzenjammers' youngest player

Newsday

Jadon Phillip, nine, shows off his skills with Katzenjammers during the band’s performance in the Panorama medium band final at Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacelot, Tobago last Sunday. DAVID REID -

If you're a fan of Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra

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PAMBERI: WRONG AGAIN!!! Ah man say this is the BEST ARRANGEMENT of the SONG for the WHOLE SEASON

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Aquil Arrindell shares views on Panorama 2020 thus far

Aquil Arrindell speaks on judging, Tobago Panorama and other important matters Pan issues.

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Well when DUVONE win THREE IN A ROW (on Saturday), I think that they should HONOUR THE MAN IN A REAL BIG WAY ...

Like a BIG RENEGADES PARADE through the city with DUVONE waving to the crowd from atop a BIG TRUCK (ah doh want no PAN ROLLING ON THE GROUND like Patrick and Cecil does be begging for).

And then a BIG BANQUET with THE PRESIDENT and PRIME MINISTER and

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Revolution wanted -- Panorama 2020

by Sharmain Baboolal

#ChroniclesofAPanorama

Revolution wanted.

Six people would hold us hostage throughout the night. We surrendered all our emotions to them. As if they were Gods as they sat like Kings and Queens on thrones. Vanity surpassed the qu

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Watch Large Band 2020 Panorama Prelim - Skiffle Steel Orchestra

Band: CAL Skiffle
Tune: Wrong Again
Arranger: Kendall Williams, Odie Gonzales & Marc Brooks

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Tropical Angel Harps | Antillean All Stars | La Brea Steel Nightingales | Fonclaire | Skiffle

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Guyana Youth and Large band Panorama 2020

GUYANA REPUBLIC JUBILEE 2020 YOUTH & LARGE BANDS STEEL BAND COMPETITION

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Here is a nice EXPLANATION of a PANORAMA ARRANGEMENT ...

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A Salute to the 2020 Panorama Accomplishments of Arranger Vanessa Alexandra Headley

by Golden Hands Steel Orchestra

Panorama 2020 has been an historic one. Besides being the first to span a two-year period (2019-2020), it will be the first to have a final staged in our sister isle, Tobago.

To me, more

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