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Clive Bradley, Winston Gordon and Michael Marcano three of the leading personalities in the steelpan music industry share their views on the upcoming Trinidad steelband music panorama with When Steel Talks...


Web Posted - Tuesday  January 18, 2005
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Panorama 2005 * EXCLUSIVE

Clive Bradley
Arranger
Desperadoes Steel Orchestra
2005 T&T Panorama Season

Once again, Desperadoes Steel Orchestra is in high spirits with a Clive Bradley arrangement of their Panorama selection "Action" from Emmanuel "Oba" Sinnette. Speaking with When Steel Talks , Bradley calls Oba a "competent composer," and a "musician" one who understood and knew music that was suitable for pan,  and for steelband arrangements.  Oba even visited the pan yard,   as opposed to other artists who would call Bradley and tell him they had a "pan tune."  The arranger has been with Desperadoes since 1968, and he arranged for the steel orchestra for many of the years since then.   He led the pan players to the National Panorama title at least ten times in their history, and two of those victories were with Oba's selections - "In My House" (1999) and "Picture on The Wall" (2000).

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Web Posted - Tuesday  January 18, 2005
When Steel Talks
Panorama 2005 * EXCLUSIVE

Michael Marcano
Manager
Renegades Steel Orchestra
2005 T&T Panorama Season

Michael Marcano, manager of the legendary Renegades Steel Orchestra recently took time out of his busy schedule to chat with When Steel Talks. It was a post-preliminary conversation, and Marca no thought that the band "put down a very good performance" in the pan yard event, especially from the reaction and the comments heard from members of the crowd.  For the preliminary round, they had opted to go with one hundred players, he said, because the other musicians were in the process of perfecting their respective parts.  He noted that a number of practice nights had been lost prior to the preliminary because of inclement weather and that ground was being made up.

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Web Posted - Tuesday January 18, 2005
When Steel Talks
Panorama 2005 * EXCLUSIVE

 Winston Gordon
Arranger
Redemption Sound Setters
Steel Orchestra
2005 T&T Panorama Season

Redemption Soundsetters Steel Orchestra is one of the three large conventional bands out of Tobago, the sister isle of Trinidad. With musicians ranging from ten years of age to the ranks of senior citizens, the steel orchestra is well underway and full of confidence for 2005. They are just one of the bands who this year have adopted the motto of "forward ever, backward never" in their choice of a Panorama selection for the 2005 competition.  The band's seasoned arranger, Winston Gordon, told When Steel Talks  that De Fosto's From Beyond  was agreed on by the band's executive committee, and that everyone was generally pleased with how things were progressing.

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