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Republished from PAN Summer 1988 - Vol.3 No.1
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by Dalton Narine
The best you can say about anything is that it is the gre
Lord Kitchener and Pan Music Have A Thing Going
by Les Slater
Brooklyn, New York
“I made the steel band a real study. I know the runs and the notes that mean something to the sound of the band. I can hear the sound of the tenor pan.”
It is to our
The yard series - click on the HQ button (bottom right) to watch in high quality Sonatas Steel Orchestra - Three days before 100 Sonatas players take the stage for the 2008 New York Steelband Panorama competition, Basement Recordings captures the d
Read more…In the Pan Yard New Dimension performing Pan in ‘A’ Minor as captured by Basement Recordings. In the Summer of 2005 When Steel Talks had the honor of watching New Dimension Steel Orchestra from Grenada as they prepared for the 2005 World Steelband Mu
Read more…Global - He was simply the world's greatest steelpan music arranger. Moreover, he was the one the titans of pan bowed to. This was his stage, his arena, his moment. This was his time. Panorama was "Bradley Time." Master arranger Clive Bradley, more s
HI. This is what JACK asked me to write for him. He says,"YOU CAN'T CHOOSE THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD. NO ONE BAND IS A MASTER OF ALL GENRES. ONE MAY BE THE BEST CLASSICAL, ANOTHER THE BEST CONTEMPORARY, ETC., BUT NO ONE BAND IS A MASTER OF ALL. EVEN
Read more…Trinidad, W.I. - The stars came out, and they did shine!! Silver Stars Steel Orchestra, that is. Making history as they did so, the band which calls Tragarete Road in Woodbrook, Trinidad their home, had three “firsts” at the end of the competition.
Read more…Panorama 2009 - Oui Foote! By Queen Macoomeh According to de ole kaiso "Ah wasn dey, Ah wasn dey" but ah still see it an hear it doh. If yuh see me. I in meh duster, two pair'ah socks, vicks all up nearly in meh pweffen. Ah coughin an sneezin an wat
Read more…Congratulations to the members and management of Silver Stars. When Steel Talks 1st Silver Stars - 469 2nd Phase II Pan Groove - 468 3rd Trinidad All Stars - 460 4th Desperadoes - 458 5th Renegades - 457 6th Exodus - 456 7th Siparia Deltones - 450.
Read more…This is a never-before-released or heard, 'slow version' of the great Len "Boogsie" Sharpe classic arrangement of "In My House" as performed by Pan Rebels and captured by Basement Recordings, as the orchestra prepared for the annual New York panorama
Read more…I am interested in hearing from members of the bands who performed in this years panorama how the players limit affected their performance? Did it kill your organizations morale? There is an article in the WST news section that has an Exodus player
Read more…An Analysis and Review of Trinidad and Tobago’s2009 National Steelband Panorama by Dr. Jeannine Remy Trinidad, W.I. - The format of a panorama tune has evolved because of the early innovations of arrangers who actually gave the judges ideas for the
Read more…Organized By: National Junior Panorama Committee (representatives of Ministry of Education [Pan In The Classroom Unit], Pan Trinbago, Inc. and Pan In Schools Coordinating Council) Hosted by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with Pan Trinbag
Read more…Amrit Samaroo, son of composer/steel band arranger extraordinaire, Dr. Jit Samaroo said that he is treating his 2009 panorama arrangement for the Bp Renegades Steel Orchestra, a song entitled Dr. Jit, (composed and sung by Winston “The Original DeFos
Read more…http://www.myspace.com/porticoquartet Is anyone familiar with this group? The lead instrument sounds like a second pan or double tenor but strange or modified somehow...hollow, not bright and clean.
Read more…A TRIBUTE AND CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF THE MASTER,CLIVE BRADLEY THE MAN HIS WORK HIS SPIRIT See power point to begin discussion
Read more…Arrangers Yohan Popwell and Terrance “BJ” Marcelle prove their musical mettle in the final phase Trinidad and Tobago - Unlike the old days when panorama competitions ran much later into the wee hours of the morning, results for the finals of the med
Read more…WHO is this lady judge they talking to right now on the TV broadcast? white lady, sounds Canadian or maybe American? she certainly seems to know what she's talkin about....
Read more…We pick up where we left off - having taken a short break for the TnT panorama season. Set to HQ for best quality. TCL Skiffle Bunch Steel Orchestra performing live at Moods of Pan Festival 2008 in Antigua. go to http://www.panonthenet.com/videoch
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