I've always been vocal about arrangers choosing old tunes for panorama, I just realize that maybe the reason could be because they have more time to work on them, perhaps the time when new music comes out is too late for arrangers. Those arrangers that compose their own music has a year to come up with ah song, I doubt that 3 months before panorama they would be still looking for a song. Could it be that arrangers need more time to listen to all the new music?
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I guess I have to remind everyone that, in the old days, our best composers and singers were deliberately creating "pan friendly " tunes for the steelbands.
As a matter of fact, they competed with each other for their music to attract the attention of the steelbands.
That was because back then the steelbands determined who won the road march title and rewards.
Well, today, singers still want the Road March title, but today, DJs determine the road march, so the best composers and singers focus on rhythmic DJ music , not on so called "pan friendly " music.
I'm beginning to think that arrangers that compose their own music or those who choose old tunes are more prepared going into the season because they had more time, as oppose to those that's waiting for new music.
Our predicament is that we produce new music every year so I think it should be mandatory that bands play it.
Hello folks
You do realize that all of the large band play new music every year regardless of the length of the season.
And why is that when an arranger has more than one band to arranger for only his number one band will get a new tune, all the others will get an old tune. There is the answer. It is about the ability or lack there of the arrangers to handle more than one new tune in a season. The stats say they can't do it.
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No, you're wrong, this means 'eat ah food', not to improve the other bands performance.
I think that in a few short years PANORAMA TUNES will NO LONGER HAVE LYRICS. If you listen to the new PANORAMA COMPOSITONS with a critical calypso ear the problem is self-evident.
Maybe we should stop trying to "force feed " the public music they may not be interested in , under the misconception that panorama should be about new , locally composed "pan tunes" , and open the competition up to ALL popular music , foreign and local , old and new , calypso , pop or whatever, that the music loving public could relate to.
Maybe then the public may better understand and appreciate complex panorama arrangements.
I do not believe that most "pan tunes" gain sufficient popularity or familiarity with the public , with the result that, to the audience most panorama arrangements are not arrangements of familiar ,popular tunes like years gone by , but complete creations by the arrangers .
Many may have forgotten , but restrictions on music choices were meant in part to support the local calypso art-form and artists.
See where that got us.
And , BTW lets stop waiting for them to play pan tunes in popular rotation on local radio , and complaining about it..
Aint gonna happen , unless pan people buy airtime and sponsor it.
Glenroy, we have what you are talking about , it's called ah BOMB tune.
Cecil , I'm assuming that the intention is to broaden the appeal of Panorama style music and arrangements.
If that is the case then maybe we should consider arrangements of music that the wider public know and want to hear , instead of music that we (in the pan bubble) think they should be listening to.
if you recall ,earlier Panorama arrangements were usually arrangements of the most popular calypso tunes of each carnival cycle.
I'm simply suggesting we open up the selection process to all types of contemporary popular music , since we do not have the types of popular , pan friendly calypsos like in the old days , and pan tunes are just not cutting it with the wider public.
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