While we keep lamenting the failure to sell steele orchestra music, globally. Nobody seem to understand that there must be a demand for the marketed product. Steele orchestra is unique because the instruments are unique. The challenge is creating global demand for this unique music.
Claude I recently saw a production company led by a young lady and her family in T&T, they are going to do great things, sorry, I can't find where wrote their name.
The keep back with pan is because they only think in terms of a BIG side. 5 players with a vocal is where panist has to concentrate.
Patrice Millien -- I much admire what she is TRYING to do but there is a TRINIDAD ARROGANCE that buries them all. And that is that they refuse to realize that they need OUTSIDE HELP!!!
Steve, at this point I would like to see pan stand on it's own, after a market is established they can do what they want, when they use other instruments the leave out some pan. It's up to pan people to push pan.
Cecil: Pan People could only PUSH PAN so far and that is mostly about HUSTLING PAN. There is a lack of ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS when it comes to MARKETING PAN down in T&T and by PAN PEOPLE globally. Until people like Dr. deLight and retired BUSINESS MEN jump into the PAN TING (with the guidance of EXPATS) we will keep SPINNING TOP IN MUD with PAN.
I might get kicked off the forum for saying this but there is NOBODY who lives the TRINIDAD LIFE down in LAX will ever be able to produce PAN MUSIC for the OUTSIDE WORLD. They could TALK THE TALK and DREAM THE DREAM but it will NEVER HAPPEN.
EXPATS took the PAN GLOBAL and EXPATS hold the KEY to making GLOBAL PAN MUSIC.
It must also include the brass instruments that jazz uses. Tenor sax and trumpet, flute etc and piano. Only then can you hear the real sweetness of all the pans. They are real musical instruments which can match any other.
Great. At last an ensemble that really uses the pan, not just a tenor thrown in for effect. This is what stage sides and small combos should be trying to achieve.
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While we keep lamenting the failure to sell steele orchestra music, globally. Nobody seem to understand that there must be a demand for the marketed product. Steele orchestra is unique because the instruments are unique. The challenge is creating global demand for this unique music.
Wayne and Cecil: A little background on the show .... http://www.nuevaschool.org/news/nueva-now/1077-night-at-nueva-bring...
Claude I recently saw a production company led by a young lady and her family in T&T, they are going to do great things, sorry, I can't find where wrote their name.
The keep back with pan is because they only think in terms of a BIG side. 5 players with a vocal is where panist has to concentrate.
Patrice Millien -- I much admire what she is TRYING to do but there is a TRINIDAD ARROGANCE that buries them all. And that is that they refuse to realize that they need OUTSIDE HELP!!!
Did you say we still going to Russia 2018?
Steve, at this point I would like to see pan stand on it's own, after a market is established they can do what they want, when they use other instruments the leave out some pan. It's up to pan people to push pan.
Cecil: Pan People could only PUSH PAN so far and that is mostly about HUSTLING PAN. There is a lack of ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS when it comes to MARKETING PAN down in T&T and by PAN PEOPLE globally. Until people like Dr. deLight and retired BUSINESS MEN jump into the PAN TING (with the guidance of EXPATS) we will keep SPINNING TOP IN MUD with PAN.
I might get kicked off the forum for saying this but there is NOBODY who lives the TRINIDAD LIFE down in LAX will ever be able to produce PAN MUSIC for the OUTSIDE WORLD. They could TALK THE TALK and DREAM THE DREAM but it will NEVER HAPPEN.
EXPATS took the PAN GLOBAL and EXPATS hold the KEY to making GLOBAL PAN MUSIC.
Agreed Wayne, more small combos are needed, I really believe that this is where pan music will brake through.
It must also include the brass instruments that jazz uses. Tenor sax and trumpet, flute etc and piano. Only then can you hear the real sweetness of all the pans. They are real musical instruments which can match any other.
Great. At last an ensemble that really uses the pan, not just a tenor thrown in for effect. This is what stage sides and small combos should be trying to achieve.