Defending National Steelband Music Festival Pan is Beautiful and World Steelband Music Festival title holders, Republic Bank Exodus, will be performing at position four on Saturday, at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain. Showtime is 7 pm.
Exodus is among eight finalists in the Orchestra Class of Pan Is Beautiful XII seeking to capture the $250,000 first prize and trophies.
Steel orchestras are required to perform the Test Piece—Mr Pan Maker—composed and sung by Black Stalin (Leroy Calliste) and a Piece of Choice, ie any musical composition, that will not only test the skill of the player, but will also highlight the beauty and versatility of the national instrument and is to be played in accordance with the musical score as submitted by the orchestra and to be performed for a period not exceeding 12 minutes. The total playing time of each orchestra shall not exceed 18 minutes.
The competition will be judged by a panel of four which includes three sitting judges and one alternate judge.
They are Dr Ronnie Wooten, Dr Lennard Moses (foreign), with Dr Ann Marion Osborne and Merle Albino de Coteau (local).
Criteria for adjudication include Accuracy of Score (40); Accuracy of Dynamics (20); Interpretation (20); Articulation (10); and, Quality of Sound (10).
Tickets for The National Steelband Music Festival XII cost $200 and $250.
line-up
Pan Is Beautiful XII
—Orchestra Class
Saturday’s line-up is as follows:
1 Pan Elders—The Barber of Serville Overture (Rossini)
2 NGC Couva Joylanders—Symphonic Suite from The Lord of the Rings—The Fellowship of the Ring (Howard Shore)
3 T&TEC Tropical Angel Harps—The Voices In My Head (Clarence Morris)
4 Republic Bank Exodus—Moods of Maestro (Cecil “Maestro” Hume)
5 bpTT Renegades—Academic Festival Overture (Johannes Brahms)
6 Codrington Pan Family—The Pan with Love-Our Gift to the World (Keisha Codrington)
7 Diatonic Steel Orchestra—Symphony No 4 (Pyotr Llyick Tchaikovsky)
8 CAL Invaders—Zampa Overture (Herold).
