Browsing by Author "Sookram, Caldeo"

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    Denzil 'Dimes' Fernandez Adds Latest to Steelpan Range
    (Express, 24-Oct-01) Sookram, Caldeo; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    The Duo Bore Pan is the latest addition to the steelpan range. It was recently invented by Denzil "Dimes" Fernandez. From a humble beginning in Belmont and with a track record of 40 years as a researcher, composer, arranger, tuner, performer, lecturer, educator and consultant on the steelpan, Fernandez said he was curious about pan from his boyhood days with the Belmont Symphony Steelband in the late 1950s. Fernandez’s first version of the Bore Pan came out in July 1984. This pan is crafted with holes around the notes instead of the standard groove as contained in most pans.
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    Flambeaux Outside Hell Yard at Dawn: Canboulay Riots Relived
    (Sunday Express, 21-Feb-04) Sookram, Caldeo; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    At five o'clock in the morning, a contingent of revelers arrived on Duke Street, Port-of-Spain, close to Hell Yard to watch actors from the Malick Folk Performers, the Lord Street Theatre, students from Trinity College in Connecticut and research scholars from the Pacific Lutheran University in Lacoma, Washington State, re-enact the Canboulay Riots of 1881.
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    Music Came Naturally to Amrit Samaroo
    (Express, 1-Dec-99) Sookram, Caldeo; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    This article discusses Amrit Samaroo’s interest in playing the steel pan as he flows in his father, Jit Samaroo's footsteps. With his father as his main tutor, Amrit has developed a love for music. He loves all types of music — classical, calypso, reggae, jazz, Indian, Latin American and parang. Amrit, however, prefers classical composers like Mozart and others, since he believes that to conquer that field of music is a real challenge.
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    Steelpan History Unfolds
    (Express, 12-Feb-07) Sookram, Caldeo; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Prof. Clement Imbert conducts a lecture on pan at the University of the West Indies. The audience included students from several faculties, steelpan enthusiasts, steelpan tuners, Pan Trinbago officials and pan researchers.