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Veteran Arranger Pelham Goddard Speaks to the “Insanity” of Panorama Judging

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How then can these judges guide arrangers who are, more likely than not, more skilled than they in the area of arranging?...  - Pelham Goddard  

by Pelham Goddard

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Panorama 2011Global - It is the view of the public-at-large that Panorama music today has become the judges' piece, and does not have the sound and feel of arrangers' music of long ago. Recently I read a comment on When Steel Talks in which the person spoke about the real panorama hit tunes of years gone by.

Pan Trinbago is conducting seminars in which arrangers meet with the judges who will guide the arrangers in producing their work for the market.  This is bordering on insanity since these very judges are unqualified to guide any arranger as they are generally NOT arrangers. Judges are usually selected from musicians whose specialties and certifications do not include arranging, orchestration and composition. How then can these judges guide arrangers who are, more likely than not, more skilled than they in the area of arranging?

Pelham Goddard at WST Studios

Arrangers are usually more knowledgeable and creative than the judges since they must know all their chords, harmonic progressions, voicings in all keys, counter melodies, counterpoint, modulations and so on. I will like to see or to hear or, as a matter of fact, go to where these judges perform their work; at the least, they should provide examples to the arrangers.

In follow-up notes to When Steel Talks, Pelham expounds further on the situation by posing the following question and suggestion.

There are more than five hundred calypsos of which include soca and chutney; how many of those were arranged by these judges? Pan Trinbago needs to seek out people who are active in the art form. There are some big name musicians and pan people like Ron Berridge, Errol Ince, Leston Paul and Ray Holman... (When this is done) Then they will improve the music.

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