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ISSUE 1/MAY 2014
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Campus Concert Series Continuted
As was mentioned before, the campus concert series has been in effect for a total four years of which in its first couple years concerts took place every weekend during the student semester. As the years progressed, the school population widened, placing added constraints on the time of the instructors, thus, the fluidity of concerts has decreased but it does not seem to have had an effect on the quality of the performances done. Even though the school population has drastically increased it is unfortunate that some of the key players have left the institution causing there to be a challenge when creating the concerts.
“We used to have about 20 professional musicians with us, around that time we had a much larger repertoire system, we now have a very bizarre repertoire system because we do not have a cello, an oboe player, neither do we have a harp player. But, what we do have is brass players, few trumpet player as well as string players, therefore it takes much research for us to come together and create a piece using all the instruments we have which is very much time consuming. In addition to that , seeing that the school population has drastically increased classes now get in the way of us assembling ” replies music lecturer Caitlyn Kamminga a Double Bass player at the Concert Series when asked: Why has the number of concerts decreased as the years progressed?
Kamminga continues, the only cure to this is to advertise our institution as much as possible so that these missing key players can join us and help to assemble musicians from all across the world in to our University. As one may know Trinidad and Tobago is drastically increasing in the arts whether it is in our own country or in other countries across the globe. The University of Trinidad and Tobago’s Academy for the Performing Arts is proud to be taking up the offer by training students and giving them the attention they need to help in the growth of our Performing Arts industry. The Campus Concert Series wishes to be that pillar of motivation to the young upcoming professional performers of Trinidad and Tobago.