Mark Loquan was the man with the vision to preserve local music and engender a new generation of musicians by founding the Music Literacy Trust. PHOTO COURTESY MUSIC LITERACY TRUST
On October 10, a group of benefactors, patrons and well wishers joined to the sound of sweet pan and more music at the Renaissance in Glencoe in celebration of a decade of the Music Literacy Trust (MLT). It was a look back at a decade of achievements and a way forward with new plans and initiatives for the future.
MLT has spent a decade working to have great pan arrangements scored for posterity, encourage the creation of original music for pan, bring instruments and teaching to disadvantaged children, and offer vital scholarships to some of T&T’s most talented musicians so they can further their education to become the bright stars of the future.
MLT is the vision of its founding director Mark Loquan, who believed that the wonderful, complex pan arrangements heard at Panorama and in the panyards needed to be preserved. He felt that music literacy for young people was lacking and that the ability to read music and by extension, adapt to a range of instruments, could increase opportunities for some of T&T’s most talented musicians. His close friend, the late Dr Pat Bishop nurtured Mark’s vision from the beginning but she also told him it would be like pushing molasses up the hill with a rake.
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FYI, From what we know, Salo went to Gustine (SA-SSCS), Mean Green On Steel, not QRC.