Panorama music has list it's beauty and Color. Rebecca - Woman on the Bass- Party Tonight - Natasha - Doh Back Back - Four Lara Four - Pan Rising are all but a distant memory. Our Music is not getting better. Thanks Bradley and Jit.
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We are now in the next generation. The music have changed, the same as it has in Pop, Rock, R&B. Gone are the days of Kitchener, Sparrow, Tambu, Chalkdust, Penguin, etc. The music now is "aerobics" style which is not comparable to the sweet lyrics of yesteryear. The bands today do not have the same sweet tunes of choice as they had, but that's what today's composers are writing. Change for the better or change for the worse??? Depends who you ask.
Question: Who are the judges and what have they done to show us that they have the know-how to judge Panorama?. This reminds me of Rodney Dangerfield in Back To School, when he asked the Professor of Business, if he'd ever ran a business, to be telling him a successful business man about running a business. These judges may have degrees from who knows where, but, have they ever arranged for a steelband and if so, how far has that band gone?.We all know that common sense comes before book sense. Like they say, most people who can't make it in the field they really love end up teaching in that field. Case in point, St Margret's Superstars, in my opinion, had one of the nicest arrangements in the Medium Band category yet they were placed last, makes me wonder what the judges were listening to.
Claude, I understand what you are saying when you say this "VISIONARY MAN" could open doors etc.. Panorama is not the place for that type of music to do it.
In the days when steelbands ruled the roads on Carnival day, the best calypsonians in the land had one eye on the Calypso crown, and the other eye on the Road March prize.
So they created songs that told stories capable of winning the calypso crown, but were also structured to appeal to the steelbands.
Because in those days, the steelbands determined the Road March, the best calypsonians and composers created songs in a calypso style that was pan friendly, popular and memorable..
Since the steelbands no longer determine the roadmarch however, there is no need to compose with pan in mind, and the music evolved into a DJ friendly, more rhythm based type of music that had little appeal to pan arrangers.
Modern soca music.
So another genre had to be created for the steelbands, the pan tune.
Unfortunately, most of the pan tune composers , while very musical, are not as lyrically gifted as the calypsonians of an earlier era, so the music does not penetrate the carnival noise with sufficient impact to create familiarity.
And thus, as well arranged and musical as the panorama piece may be, it suffers by not being one of the popular tunes of the carnival season.
It suffers by not being a familiar tune with the carnival revelers.
miranda > Glenroy R JosephFebruary 18, 2014 at 6:04pm
well said
Cecil hinkson > Glenroy R JosephFebruary 18, 2014 at 4:05pm
Back in the day you also had an LP with 10+ songs.
One of the biggist problems is that the power that be does not care about pan in TnT .. They care about making money which is important but at what cost,how come you are saying to me that the general public does not know half the songs the bands are playing we need some homework there.Why is there so much distractons on panorama day within the same area of the competition (the greens,the drag ) the only people who care about pan in carnival are pan players and forigners who understand the beauty of this instrument and the pride felt when played in big country and u can say that is mine (like me made in TnT)
Birdsong is Narell's sacrificial lamb to prove that the structure of panorama must change to suit what he finds it should be. When this arranger, composer, pan player comes to our shores he must showcase his talent by showing us what he can do with our music in our panorama competition and not come here to tell us what we have to do to suit him.
Mr. Clarke: The man is a visionary. He is tired of being the ONLY PAN MAN in the world who could open doors for the pan internationally at every level. Dem fellahs should be learning from the man so that they (too) could take the Pan to lands F-A-R F-A-R away.
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Question: Who are the judges and what have they done to show us that they have the know-how to judge Panorama?. This reminds me of Rodney Dangerfield in Back To School, when he asked the Professor of Business, if he'd ever ran a business, to be telling him a successful business man about running a business. These judges may have degrees from who knows where, but, have they ever arranged for a steelband and if so, how far has that band gone?.We all know that common sense comes before book sense. Like they say, most people who can't make it in the field they really love end up teaching in that field. Case in point, St Margret's Superstars, in my opinion, had one of the nicest arrangements in the Medium Band category yet they were placed last, makes me wonder what the judges were listening to.
Claude, I understand what you are saying when you say this "VISIONARY MAN" could open doors etc.. Panorama is not the place for that type of music to do it.
Trini's have been lost in the bottle.
This bears repeating.
In the days when steelbands ruled the roads on Carnival day, the best calypsonians in the land had one eye on the Calypso crown, and the other eye on the Road March prize.
So they created songs that told stories capable of winning the calypso crown, but were also structured to appeal to the steelbands.
Because in those days, the steelbands determined the Road March, the best calypsonians and composers created songs in a calypso style that was pan friendly, popular and memorable..
Since the steelbands no longer determine the roadmarch however, there is no need to compose with pan in mind, and the music evolved into a DJ friendly, more rhythm based type of music that had little appeal to pan arrangers.
Modern soca music.
So another genre had to be created for the steelbands, the pan tune.
Unfortunately, most of the pan tune composers , while very musical, are not as lyrically gifted as the calypsonians of an earlier era, so the music does not penetrate the carnival noise with sufficient impact to create familiarity.
And thus, as well arranged and musical as the panorama piece may be, it suffers by not being one of the popular tunes of the carnival season.
It suffers by not being a familiar tune with the carnival revelers.
well said
Back in the day you also had an LP with 10+ songs.
One of the biggist problems is that the power that be does not care about pan in TnT .. They care about making money which is important but at what cost,how come you are saying to me that the general public does not know half the songs the bands are playing we need some homework there.Why is there so much distractons on panorama day within the same area of the competition (the greens,the drag ) the only people who care about pan in carnival are pan players and forigners who understand the beauty of this instrument and the pride felt when played in big country and u can say that is mine (like me made in TnT)
Birdsong is Narell's sacrificial lamb to prove that the structure of panorama must change to suit what he finds it should be. When this arranger, composer, pan player comes to our shores he must showcase his talent by showing us what he can do with our music in our panorama competition and not come here to tell us what we have to do to suit him.
Mr. Clarke: The man is a visionary. He is tired of being the ONLY PAN MAN in the world who could open doors for the pan internationally at every level. Dem fellahs should be learning from the man so that they (too) could take the Pan to lands F-A-R F-A-R away.
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