Panorama 2012 moment of truth has arrived.

from Trinidad Guardian - Feb. 03 2012.

The day of reckoning is nigh, when 16 of the nation’s best large conventional steel orchestras face the judges and public to get permission to compete in the final of the biggest pan competitions on the planet. In my 49 years of attending the annual National Panorama competition in the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, this is perhaps the most intriguing of all, its only because of the numerous young and youthful musicians arranging for steelbands this year. In its five-decade existence, this competition has seen a number of revolutionary changes and innovations, all to the enhancement of the national instrument and the competition— from the days of racks on bicycle wheels to the quad pan to sound buffering paraphenalia as is seen in Republic Bank Exodus. The music too has progressed with the passage of time, from that of Anthony Williams’ arrangement of Sparrow’s Dan is the Man for 1963 champion Pan Am North Stars to Bobby Mohammed’s ground-shaking arrangement of Kitchener’s ’67 for Guinness Cavaliers, to give the southern giant its second lien on the national title, to avant garde arrangements by musicians like Leon Edwards (Smooth), Len Sharpe (Boogsie), Robert Greenidge, Bradley and Samaroo.