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of steelband music arrangements and performances
for a large steel orchestra. This collection
showcases seven classic arrangements from the
master arranger Clive Bradley. Bradley
is considered to be the best steelband music
arranger ever by many, including his peers.
In addition, the arrangements are performed
by one of the finest steelbands in the world,
New York’s Pantonic Steel Orchestra. Clive Bradley
had a very special relationship with Pantonic.
This orchestra clinched the title of panorama
champions five times in seven years - performing
Bradley’s musical works. The performances
were captured by Basement Recordings days before,
and in one instance, mere moments before they
took the stage for the prestigious annual steelband
music panorama competition.
The recordings capture, reproduce
and present an unrivalled clarity with sonic
realism, of a large steel orchestra fielding
between one hundred and one hundred twenty musicians
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This body of musical work is a sterling addition
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Web Posted -
Sunday September 30, 2012
When Steel Talks
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Mosaic Steel Orchestra Rocked City & Sand
for 2012
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Barbados, W.I.
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Mosaic Steel Orchestra of Barbados did not
disappoint when it came time for their
appearances during 2012 Crop Over festivities
earlier this year. They were in focus on the Pan
in the City and the Pan Pun de Sand stages in
Bridgetown and Brandon’s Beach.
After a
teaser in Pan in Black on the night of
Crop Over Friday, Mosaic headed to Bridgetown on
Saturday to set Independence Square on fire, and
did just that with a 12 piece Pan-round-the-neck
band. With popular tunes from calypsonian Red
Plastic Bag and other artistes, Mosaic led
hundreds of Pan fanatics around the square in a
mass congo line.
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Web Posted -
Saturday September
29, 2012
Trinidad Express
Newspapers
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South panists treated badly at NAPA opening
(Commentary) |
San Fernando,
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.
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I am writing to let you know that the opening of
NAPA South was a crying shame and insult to the
steelpan fraternity of San Fernando. This was
not a multi-cultural opening but rather a
bi-cultural programme of only singing and two
dance performances.
I am of
the opinion that it is either the organisers of
this programme just do not like the steelpan or
they did not think our national instrument was
worthy of the gracious stage of NAPA South.
These
people should be dismissed from any future
cultural event planning as they clearly show no
respect for the other aspects of culture such as
our steelpan, literary foundation and the
talented disabled persons, to name a few.
....Speaking of South pan fraternity, I don't
believe there were any present. Were they
invited?
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Thursday September
27, 2012
Tobago News
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Ramsey-Moore up for Pan Trinbago President |
Tobago, W.I.
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Following on the footsteps of Patrick Arnold,
another Tobagonian could be installed as
President of Pan Trinbago.
Former THA
representative Beverly Ramsey-Moore whose
organisational skills catapulted Black Rock
Katzenjammers to the top of the steelband world,
has been nominated by the Northern Region of Pan
Trinbago to contest the post of President for
the national steelband body.
The Pan
Trinbago national election is set to come off on
October 31 in Trinidad and according to reliable
sources, "already Ramsey Moore has been
receiving massive support which is wide spread
in Trinidad.
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Web Posted -
Wednesday September
26, 2012
The Equinox
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Bringing a piece of the Caribbean to Campus
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New Hampshire, USA -
Every instrument is a piece of history—but some
instruments possess a story that is more
intriguing than others. Around 1900, the British
government ruled the island of Trinidad, an
island populated mostly by African descendants.
The
government feared that a population so large had
potential to overthrow the government. As a
result, the British government decided to stop a
musical uprising before it happened. All musical
instruments were banned, but the government
would loan out musical instruments if you
received approval.
What the
government didn’t realize was the role that
music played in Trinidad’s culture. This led to
the invention of the steel drum. In 1939, around
the time of World War II, the steel drum was
born.
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Web Posted - Monday September 24, 2012
When Steel Talks
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The Genius of Woman On The Bass
Three stars align to bring new definition to
longevity
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Global
- ....The principal
protagonist in this bluesy soap opera, The Woman
on the Bass, Town say, lives incognito, but many
regard her as a dream vision.
....Who’d
believe that a few years earlier, a few of your
colleagues in Sforzata would treat you like a
dree-vay? Shucks, when you turned up for
practice, they’d mumble, “Look trouble come.”
You, a bass player? Not if we can help it. Tough
to make the Panorama side if the bass lines are
dribbled out to you as though from the nipple of
a baby bottle.
How’d you
channel such embarrassment? It drove you up the
steep incline to the Desperadoes pan yard. Smack
into manager Rudolph Charles’ den of master
panists..
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Web Posted -
Monday September
24, 2012
The Jamaica
Gleaner
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Stella Maris Steel Band is a ‘Pantastic 10’
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Jamaica, W.I.
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The Stella Maris Steel Band is making
preparations to host its 10th anniversary
concert. The band, which boasts being the first
and only Catholic steel band in the island, has
20 members and, according to band manager
Margeret Rhoden, the future should see growth.
The band
received its first batch of steel pans from an
anonymous Trinidad donor several years ago.
Rhoden says what started out as casual music
lessons, grew into a professional charity-driven
musical band.
"We do
work for charity and that is a major part of why
we are members of the band. The only challenge
is that we don't have steel band tuners in
Jamaica, so we have to send to Trinidad to get
the pans tuned and that is very expensive.
Currently, we can only manage to get them tuned
once per year, because it is about US$60 per pan
and we have 20 members," Rhoden said.
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Web Posted - Monday September 24, 2012
When Steel Talks
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Renegades Vacation Youth Music Camp to Set Stage Towards Healthier Minds Through Arts and Entertainment
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Trinidad
& Tobago
- Back in the 1960s-1970s, the second president of the then Steelband Association, the late George “Sony” Goddard made a series of attempts at getting the nation to buy in to the arts as an artery for positive and meaningful life, but that was never to be as music – integral to arts and entertainment – pursued as a career, more so, pan as a structured activity on the school curriculum, was taboo.
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Web Posted -
Sunday September 23, 2012
When Steel Talks
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Fundraiser for well-known NY D’Radoes
Steelpan player “Bomber” aka “Showtime”
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New
York, USA
- D’Radoes Steel Orchestra
invites all to attend a fundraiser in aid of
Peter Johnson, aka “Bomber” or “Showtime.”
The veteran Pan player is a well-known face on
New York’s steelpan scene, and has for some time
been struggling with cancer. “Showtime” is
now facing further surgery and treatment.
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Web Posted -
Saturday September
22, 2012
Trinidad &
Tobago Newsday
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Ramsey-Moore for Pan Trinbago presidency
race |
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.
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Former House of Assembly representative,
Beverley Ramsey-Moore, has tossed her hat into
the ring to become president of Pan Trinbago
when the organisation holds its triannual
elections on October 28.
Ramsey-Moore, who will be taking a full slate of
candidates into this elections, hopes to become
Pan Trinbago’s first female president.
According
to a statement, Ramsey-Moore...resigned from
the Keith Diaz-lead executive citing “an absence
of transparency and accountability in the
operations of the organisation.”
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Web Posted -
Friday September 21, 2012
When Steel Talks
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When Things Fall Apart - the Nigeria-Pan
Trinbago Steelpan Partnership
Exclusive When Steel Talks Interview
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Global - In an
exclusive interview for When Steel Talks, Mary
Ehikhamenor, PA to the CEO—Chief Bowie S. Bowei—of the
Africa-Trinidad & Tobago Steelpan Development
Company, Ltd. (ATTSDC) - gives insight into the
situation which has led to the dissolution of
the original business partnership between Pan
Trinbago and Xcel Steelpan Co. Ltd., which gave
rise to the ATTSDC.
Ehikhamenor has worked closely alongside and
recorded events that transpired from ATTSDC’s
inception, and responds on the authority of
Bowei, who is currently on business in Europe.
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Web Posted -
Thursday September 20, 2012
When Steel Talks
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Nigeria-Pan Trinbago Steelpan Development Company - Partnership OVER!!
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Global -
In a carefully-worded communiqué from the office of ATTSDC’s (Africa-Trinidad & Tobago Steelpan Development Company. Ltd.) CEO Chief Bowie S. Bowei, comes a statement that regrettably, the partnership entered into earlier in 2012, has been dissolved. The communiqué went further to explain that failure of the company rests squarely on the shoulders of Pan Trinbago.
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Web Posted -
Thursday September
20, 2012
Trinidad &
Tobago Guardian
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Holman, Skiffle team-up for Panorama 2013
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.
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Junior Sammy Skiffle has joined forces with
renowned steelpan arranger Ray Holman for
Panorama 2013. Skiffle CEO Junia Regrello
announced the partnership during the bands
recent Independence concert at the Naparima
Bowl. Holman, who attended the show, was
introduced to the audience and given a rousing,
San Fernando welcome. At the concert, held in
collaboration with the Ministry of Planning as
an Independence gift to the nation, Skiffle also
honoured visionary businessman Robert Montano
for the critical role he has played in shaping
their band.
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Web Posted -
Wednesday September
19, 2012
When Steel Talks
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Starlift Steel Orchestra of St. Vincent &
The Grenadines in historic New York visit
In Concert, on the road for J’Ouvert -
Starlift came hard
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New York, USA -
With a cool breeze blowing on a warm Friday
evening, it was exactly the right setting for a
great steelband concert, showcasing the sounds
of the contingent from Starlift Steel Orchestra
of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a band which
has won multiple steelband Panorama
championships in its country. ‘Friends of Crown
Heights’ on Prospect Place in Brooklyn, New York
was the venue for the meeting of the people of
St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the wider
Caribbean Diaspora, as they gathered in
anticipation of what turned out to be an
unforgettable evening of music put on by one of
their very own hometown orchestras.
....Honored guests in attendance included St.
Vincent and the Grenadines Consul General Selmon
Walters and Deputy Consul General Edson
Augustus. Vincentian notables were also present
including the likes of calypsonian Alston
“Becket” Cyrus and Travis Roberts, captain of
New York’s CASYM Steel Orchestra - just two of
many who made sure not to miss the show.
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Web Posted -
Tuesday September
18, 2012
When Steel Talks
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New York 2012 Steel Orchestra Panorama in
REVIEW
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Brooklyn, New York -
New York continues to be one of the leading bastions of the large steel orchestra format in Panorama in the world - second only to Trinidad and Tobago. The Panorama pulse is alive as ten orchestras participated in the 2012 competition. The following is a quick review of the orchestras, arrangers and performing musicians. Each of the New York orchestras has their own style and distinct sound.
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Web Posted -
Tuesday September 18, 2012
Weekly Times Now
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Rita’s a woman of steel
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Victoria, Australia
- This is a story that starts
in Switzerland, touches on the Caribbean and
finishes in central Victoria.
It is a
story that, despite great tragedy - the Black
Saturday bushfires - has a happy ending.
And it all
revolves around one woman: Rita Seethaler.
Growing up
in Switzerland, Rita had - incongruously - been
a long-time performer of Caribbean tin [sic]
drum
music.
But it was
only after she fell in love with an Aussie,
moved to Taggerty, in central Victoria, and
lived through Black Saturday, that she truly saw
the healing power of Trinidadian tin [sic]
drums.
"I felt
individually and also collectively after Black
Saturday the community was in a pitch black pit
where we couldn't get out," says Rita.
"I thought we need healing and peace ...
Intuitively I thought the drums could be
something that brings us together, that eases
the pain. Because I know when I play and I'm not
well I get better instantaneously or it hurts
less."
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Personal
note below, from Rita Seethaler:
“I've
been alerted by Trinidadian friends of mine in
Australia that there is an
article displayed on your website from the
Australian News Paper " The Weekly Times" of
September 19, 2012. This article talks about the
story of the Victorian Bushfires 2009 and our
music therapy project using the steelpan.
“Unfortunately, the journalist didn't bother
showing me the article before it went to print.
And I was mortified to read words like "tin
drum" and "tin drum music" - terms, I never used
in that interview.... Sigh .... I sincerely
apologise and hope no one is offended by this
poor terminology.
“Anyway -
I would like to express a big thank you to
Trinidad & Tobago for having invented the steel
pan, such a fabulous instrument that gives joy
to so many people around the world and that
connects players of all ages and all backgrounds
with each other.
“For us
it was and still continues to be a true
blessing, for it has helped us deal with all the
trauma and hardship following the 2009 Bushfires
in Victoria, Australia. After the huge emptiness
of a town in ashes, the steelpan has given us a
new sense of community, a new sense of life.”
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Web Posted -
Monday September
17, 2012
Littlethampton
Gazette
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Littlehampton steel band pounds out
record-breaking Olympic farewell
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England, UK -
Talented young musicians from The Littlehampton
Academy helped to say farewell to the Olympic
Flame in London.
And at the
same time the TLA Steel Band played its part in
setting a new world record for the largest steel
band performing together.
The band
joined 15 others from as far away as North
Tyneside and even Jamaica, playing “Brasil” on a
total of 1,000 steel pans at the Mayor’s Thames
Festival lasts Saturday (September 8), to mark
the passing of the flame from London 2012 to Rio
2016.
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Web Posted -
Wednesday September
12, 2012
EastonPatch.com
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Easton Drum Band Looks to Grow
Caribbean Steel Rhythms would like to open a
school in Easton
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Pennsylvania, USA -
This doesn't seem like your typical garage band.
First off,
the members range in age from 8-year-old Leah
Salandy, who doesn't seem tall enough to reach
her instrument ("I need a stool," she admits) to
Selwyn Salandy, who is a father and grandfather.
The band
is gathered at his house in Bethlehem Township,
in his garage, but this is in no way a "garage
band."
Caribbean
Steel Rhythms, a steel drum band made up of
about a dozen Easton area residents, has been
playing together for years, forming in 2007 out
of the Chirst United Methodist Church on the
city's South Side.
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Web Posted -
Wednesday September 12, 2012
When Steel Talks
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The Steelpan - National Instrument of
Trinidad & Tobago - Official Statement from Pan
Trinbago
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Trinidad
& Tobago, W.I.
- Pan Trinbago has
taken note of the renewed call by some in our
society for another National Musical Instrument.
We have seen the various opinions expressed and
as the Governing Body for STEELPAN, we here
state our position on the matter.
In order
for an instrument to be considered to be a
National Musical Instrument, it should be (a)
indigenous to the country and (b) musical i.e.
able to play the songs of the country.
We know of
no other musical instrument in Trinidad and
Tobago that satisfies these two (2) criteria
other than THE STEELPAN.
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Web Posted -
Saturday September 8, 2012
Demotix
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One Thousand Pans performs in front of
London Eye
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England, U.K. -
Players from pan yards all over the UK converge
on the South Bank to perform Ary Baroso’s 1939
classic Aquarela do Brasil as a musical tribute
to the passing of the Olympic torch from London
to Rio de Janeiro.
The band is led by Brent Holder, a virtuoso
steel pan soloist, composer and arranger and
artist/art director Fiona Hawthorne.
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Web Posted -
Tuesday September 4, 2012
When Steel Talks
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Pan Trinbago to elect Central Executive
Committee in October
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Trinidad
& Tobago, W.I.
- Pan Trinbago T.C.
will be holding its Annual General Meeting (AGM)/Triennial
Convention at the Festival Ballroom, Crowne
Plaza, Wrightson Road, Port of Spain, on Sunday
28th October 2012, at 10:00 a.m.
Registration commences at 8:00 a.m.
Agenda
items include Annual Reports of the (i)
Secretary, (ii) Treasurer, (iii) Auditor, (iv)
President and any other business that may arise
as per agenda. Of special interest is the
Election of Officers to the Central Executive.
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Web Posted -
Tuesday September 4, 2012
When Steel Talks
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Pan Trinbago congratulates 2012 National
Awardees
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Trinidad
& Tobago, W.I.
- Pan Trinbago T.C.
Inc. pays tribute to Mr. Bertram Kelman
(pictured at right), Mr.
Liam Teague and Mrs. Maureen Manchouck,
recipients of National Awards on the occasion of
Trinidad & Tobago’s Fiftieth Anniversary of
Independence.
Messrs.
Kelman received the Humming Bird Medal, Gold and
Teague, the Humming Bird Medal, Silver, for
loyal and devoted service in the sphere of
Culture, while Mrs. Manchouck was awarded the
Public Service medal of Merit, Gold, for
outstanding and meritorious service in
Education.
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When Steel Talks -
Special
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Champion Panorama Tunes
of Trinidad and Tobago
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Global
- A critical component
to winning any panorama competition is the song
the orchestras choose to use as the basis of their
panorama arrangements. Over the years these songs
have inspired classic panorama arrangements. When
Steel Talks invites you to take a look at and listen
to, these famed tunes which have played more than
just a cursory part in the history of Pan, and the
lives of the players and fans.
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