Junior Panorama today

The first title in Pan Trinbago’s 2004 Panorama series will be declared today  when the junior version of the National Panorama competition takes place at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain. Starting time is 11am. A production of Pan Trinbago’s Youth Arm, it has a cast of 25 bands listed to perform at the 28th edition of the junior pan event. Patrons attending today’s pan music affair will witness musical presentations in two categories: junior orchestras and senior orchestras. According to the rules governing this event, contestants in the junior orchestra category will not be allowed to perform with players over the age of 13, on the day of competition, while pannists in the senior division cannot be older than 21. Participating bands  in both categories  are required to play a six-minute arrangement of a calypso, sung or published after Ash Wednesday 2003. Bands must employ the services of a junior arranger, who has never worked for an adult band, which qualified in the final of a National Panorama competition.

Additionally, no player or arranger, will be allowed to work for more than one band. On the issue of size, competiting bands must perform with a minimum of 25 pannists, but not more than 70 in both categories. Junior orchestras will lead off today’s competition. There are six in this category in which Febeau Primary Government has drawn to play in first position, delivering Shadow’s “Horner Man,” arranged by Damien Holder, before the five-member panel of adjudicators. Southern Marines Steelband Foundation will strike the first musical note in the senior orchestra class. Nineteen bands are registered to appear in this category. “War 2004,” composed and sung by calypsonian The Original De Fosto, is the most popular song on the day’s programme, being played five times. Last year’s joint champion bp Renegades Youth Steel Orchestra is one of the bands taking this selection to the “Big Yard,” with musical arrangement by Amrit Samaroo. Success Stars Pan Sound, the other joint winner, has gone the novel route playing an own composition entitled “Power to the Panman,” and will create history in this competition as the first band to do so. Success Stars Pan Sound will close today’s musical presentation.
 
Junior Orchestras:
 
1. Febeau Primary Government
2. La Horquetta North
3. Eastern Boys’ Government
4. Newtown Boys’ Pan Ensemble
5. St Margaret’s Boys’ AC
6. Merrytones/Diego Martin RC
  
 
Senior Orchestras:
 
1. Southern Marines Steelband Foundation
2. Katzenjammers Youths
3. Woodbrook Government Secondary
School
4. bp Renegades Youth Steel Orchestra
5. Gary Straker Pan School
6. Morvant Laventille Secondary
7. Sangre Grande Junior Secondary
8. Mt Hope Secondary School
9. St Augustine Secondary Comprehensive
10. Arima Senior Comprehensive
11. Tropical Angel Harps Youth Steel
Orchestra
12. St Francois Girls
13. St Charles High School Associates
14. San Fernando Comprehensive School
15. El Dorado Secondary Comprehensive
16. St James Government School Dynamic                 
Explosion
17. San Juan Secondary Comprehensive
18. Signal Hill Secondary Comprehensive
Steel
19. Success Stars Pan Sounds