Laventille, Port of Spain, Trinidad - The Hill is filled with anticipation as Desperadoes fans turn out in droves to their panyard before Panorama 2004 to listen to the Clive Bradley's arrangement of “Whap Cocoyea”
Global - Clive Bradley is one of the greatest musicians of his day. His music defines an era and a people. Moreover his genius continues to inspire, enchant and educate future musicians to achieve uncommon excellence.
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Scheduled for Nov 22, 2020
Liam Teague, director NIU Steel Bband & Steel Pan Studio
Yuko Asada, director CSA Steel Band
Avery Attzs and Malik Brook, directors
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Global - "I’ve always felt uncomfortable with the word ‘arranger’ as it applied to guys like Bradley. A guy who can take a verse and chorus and spin out a 10 minute piece of theme and variation that hangs together and tells a story is more a compose
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Global - “It's a tremendous loss to the whole steelband movement throughout the entire world. Clive Bradley has touched the lives of all of us as young arrangers in so many prolific ways - listening to his music and listening to him speak. It is a t
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Clive Bradley & Opera singer Anne FridalGlobal - Fridal is the first known opera singer to perform operatic versions of calypsoes, and her interpretat
Read more…19th November 2020
The Second Annual General Meeting and Election of Officers of the Trinidad & Tobago Carnival Bands Association was held on Monday 16th November 2020 at 5.00 p.m. We proudly present below the Board elected to serve the mas frater
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Global - “His preferred drink is rum and coke, though he sips a beer in the pan tent this particular night. Standing a slight five feet three inches in sandals, he peers through round, brown glasses. Cigarette smoke punctuates every word of his flat
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Global - “Clive was - as we say - one of the greatest arrangers in pan. He was a mathematician - he was able to subtract and divide and add to the music, and do with the music whatever he think needed to be done; and he knew sometimes that silence w
Read more…Pan Nation rehearsing Iron Love, arranged by Chris Storey
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Professor of World Music
robert.stephens@uconn.edu
(860) 486-5760
Robert Stephens specializes in world music and music education. He is studying the history of Afro-Cuban music and culture and was awarded a Ro
Global - “In the midst of all the merrymaking that carnival is supposed to be; that handling of the minor key makes you remember those two masks... One mask is smiling and one mask is weeping. His minor always had this terrible, gut-wrenching qualit
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Global - "Clive was one of the greatest musicians ever produced by this country [Trinidad & Tobago]. He was a master of orchestration. He had a fine mind and was very witty. He was a fantastic musician. It is a terrific loss - there can only be one
Read more…Global - “In the midst of all the merrymaking that carnival is supposed to be; that handling of the minor key makes you remember those two masks... One mask is smiling and one mask is weeping. His minor always had this terrible, gut-wrenching qualit
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Global - “A great musician. A great loss to the pan world for sure. There is only one Clive Bradley. There is no one who does a panorama tune like Clive Bradley. He has his style which was very effective. He looked at a song and lyrics and used that
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Len “Boogsie” Sharpe (left)
Global - Acclaimed steelband arranger Len “Boogsie” Sharpe and dialect poet Paul Keens Douglas are among 14 people across the region who will receive honorary degrees from the University of th
Read more…Clive Bradley - The Man and his Music
by Robbie Joseph
United Kingdom - The following is a lasting memory I have of the greatness of Clyde and his captivating music. This episode of my life is often relived when his music is played.
In 1998, Clive
Bradley was academically sound. So great was he that after being a student at the Gov't Training College and passing with distinction in his subjects he was recalled- this time as a lecturer in Mathematics. He also taught Math at the Catholic Women's
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