Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The proliferation of music stands in steelband performances, signifying widespread sight-reading by pan players, might be mistaken for a faddish overnight sensation on the Trinidad and Tobago pan scene. Yet this detail marks a noteworthy advance that defines just one reason for celebration this month of the tenth anniversary of the Music Literacy Trust.
That initiative, undertaken in 2004 by private- and State-sector businesses, aimed to raise to a new level, the compositions and arrangements for pan which, until then, had been created and communicated to fellow pan players only or mostly by rote.
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