Exodus will not challenge results
Exodus Steel Orchestra will not challenge the semifinal results of Sunday’s National Panorama semifinals at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, manager Ainsworth Mohammed said yesterday.
The band placed 12th in the standings, locking it out of the top ten bands moving on to the finals on Carnival Saturday.
Initially band members protested and said they challenge the results, but Mohammed said Exodus will respect the judges’ decision.
’We will not challenge the results. Yes we are very disappointed because we know the music we played and the work we put out and this hurts us very much. The quality of our performance was good and this is not coming from us only because the general feedback is that Exodus sounded good. We have been around Panorama for a very long time and we know what is good enough to make it to a final or to win,’ Mohammed said.
Mohammed said his immediate focus was to ensure his musicians were dealing with the outcome.
He said the band from St John’s Road, St Augustine has faced disappointment before and will bounce back stronger and ready to face the judges be it at Panorama or the Steelpan Music Festival.
’We are resilient and will just dust off and move on from here. Exodus has been here before and we came back stronger than ever before,’ Mohammed said.
Exodus placed 12th with a score of 255 points playing ’Pan in de mas’ composed and arranged by Pelham Goddard.
The last time the band failed to make it to the National Panorama finals was in 1989 when it played ’One More Officer’ also arranged by Goddard.
Since then it has won the title four times.
Since 1992 it has not placed lower than fourth at the national finals.
