Written by C News
Two pan experts are making the case for using steelpan to educate the nation's youth, push forward diversification in the land, and inculcate innovation while creating wealth for the country.
BP Renegades Manager Michael Marcano and Musician Johann Chuckaree say education and respect for pan are key elements for developing Trinidad and Tobago.
Marie-Therese Bernard has more.
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sI totally agree. I have been teaching pan and notation for years and I haveseen the transformation of children through involvement in steelpan music
That was because we both went to "Tranquility Boy's Intermediate, was in "Mr Dottin" class, when Ellie ran us out of "Invaders Pan Yard", those were the day's hum...
Pedrito,why yuh doh use yuh real name.What's with all did Spanish_brazillian stuff. Anyway I'm sure you agree that tne instrument is a valuable teaching tool.
Of course it's the only tool, why do you think that I was able to play Chopin "Minute Waltz' within 57 seconds, and how do U think North Stars was able to play all that music, "El Relicario, Puerto Rico Mambo, Brazil, Mambo Balahu, Malegnua, Devil's Daughter, Greg Opus # 67 in A minor, and all those arpeggios ect ect ect??? because of my "Samba, Salsa, Mambo, Classical, and Calypso skills, playing the "PAUSES" correctly, because on my Mothers side is "Venezuelan, on my Fathers side is Brazilian Portuguese, where he/my Dad, was an "Opera Soprano",born in T&T which spells trouble, he sounded something like "Mario Lanza", which makes me very "resilience and revenge oriented", at least that was what New York Philharmonics' Conductor and the Managing Director of Colombia Records "Leonard Bernstein " told me after I told him off, when he said that, quote; he was not going to release the last recording I tuned and arranged on for B.W.I.A.Sun Jets West Side Symphony, in N.Y. 1968, because we were playing the Masters work to good on those GARBAGE CANS unquote;.....