A WST special to the NY Daily News
Sonatas practices for 2009 PanoramaNew York, USA - The grand event known as “Panorama” commences on its traditional date - the last Saturday before Labor Day. Part show, part theater and part musical competition - “panorama” is, and remains, a critical part of the cultural fabric of the Caribbean carnival experience of New York. There is nothing just like panorama - the enormity, the spectacle, the raw emotions and the sheer investment of human will and drive.Back in the late 80’s, this writer invited a college colleague, Jessie N. from Columbia University to experience a New York panorama. “How is it possible that I’ve never heard about this - how could something of this magnitude be happening in this city without anyone knowing?” he would say after experiencing his first Panorama...
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