Dominica's OECS Junior Steelband Competition A Major Success
The first OECS Junior Pan Competition gets two thumbs up. You should make plans to attend next year's event immediately. You will not be disappointed.
Dominica (PRWEB) May 6, 2006
The first OECS Junior Pan Competition gets two thumbs up. You should make plans to attend next year's event immediately. You will not be disappointed. Indeed, while there has a been a mercuric rise in the popularity of the steelpan instrument and music globally, the OECS Junior Competition firmly establishes an educational and performance outlet in the region for educators, students and other cultural organizations to compare agendas, directives and goals. Moreover, the coming together of all these organizations and key qualified persons, provided the opportunity for comparison and formation of new strategies for the instrument's development and marketing, and steelpan music educational methodologies.
Each country brought its unique experiences and wealth of knowledge to the event. The musical arrangements and performance techniques highlighted the similarities, as well as the subtle but well-defined musical differences between the islands of the Caribbean. This competition was an ethnomusicologist's dream. The history and culture of each island was skillfully interwoven in the test piece arrangement and performance by each band. Indian, French, English, Portuguese and Spanish influences could be heard distinctly between the common African music and rhythms that bind the islands together.
This was truly one of those events where any OECS member orchestra who had an opportunity to enter and perform at this competition, and did not - lost out considerably. A win, win, win situation - a win for the organizers, a win for the performers and a win for the audience.
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Dominica Steelband Association
Anna Raffoul
Www. Dominica. panonthenet. com
1-(767)448-2622
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