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
When Steel Talks 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).
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.
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.