This programme was directed for stage by Helen Camps, and produced by Bruce Paddington and filmed by Banyan Television in 1980. It spans classical, spirituals, opera (with staged excerpts from Die Fledermaus), pop, and calypso (including specially included historical imagery to accompany “Fantasia on The Slave”). This was also the last year that the Marionettes entered the Trinidad & Tobago Music Festival, ultimately retiring unbeaten. The Beethoven “Hallelujah” performed to open the show was one of their Championship-winning pieces.
THE PROGRAMME (with timecodes)
• 00:00 — Religious & spirituals
Hallelujah (Beethoven)
Let us break bread (solos: Ann Gordon & Angela Townsend Moore, arr: Thomas)
She’s like the swallow (Vaughan Williams, solo: Patricia Pascall)
She’ll be coming round the mountain (arr: DeCormier)
• 13:11 — Staged excerpts from Die Fledermaus by J. Strauss
The hour is late (ft Marcia Bart Fraser, Patrick Flores & Charles St. Aude)
What a feast
My dear marquis (ft Angela Townsend Moore)
Brother mine (ft Marcia Bart Fraser, Max Sealy, Angela Townsend Moore, Roland Belfonte, Joanne Mendes, Charles St. Aude, Zita Farinha)
• 25:54 — Down memory lane: the Beatles, the Bee Gees, Beethoven, and Sondheim
Fifth of Beethoven (Murphy/Dove)
Send in the clowns (solo: Patrick Flores, arr. Taylor)
How deep is your love (arr: Rutherford)
• 38:43 — Trinidad & Tobago Kaiso… with a difference (Sparrow, Tanker, and Holman)
Smokey Joe (solo: Gregory Wallace, arr: Taylor)
Fantasia on a slave by Sparrow (arr: Waithe)
Pan on the run (arr: Waithe)
PRODUCTION CREDITS:
• Stage Direction: Helen Camps
• Costume, Stage Design & Construction: Wayne Berkeley
• Accompanists: Alma Pierre, Maurice Connor, Maureen Clement, Angus Nunes, and the Police Band
• Band Arrangement: ASP George Scott
• Programme Director & Conductor: Gretta Taylor
• Musical Directors: Gretta Taylor & Susan Dore
• Video Production: Banyan Productions
• Directed & edited by Wayne Crooks
• Produced by Bruce Paddington
Dedicated to the memory of Rosalind Wilson, a decades long member who we lost in May 2020; and to the memories of all those we have lost along the way.
