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Anthony Prospect was
born on the 10th February 1928. He attended Maraval and Belmont R. C. School,
eventually winning a Government Scholarship to study Military Bandmastership
in 1961 at the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, England, the
Royal College of Music and the Royal Schools of Music. Mr. Prospect won
the Silver Plaque and Baton in conducting at the Royal Military School of
Music, Kneller Hall, England.
In 1944 he joined the Trinidad
and Tobago Police Band and attained the rank of Superintendent in 1967.
Upon his gaining the position of conductor for the police band in 1964,
Mr. Prospect altered the normal music for the police band, fusing calypso
music and military rhythm. In 1951 he was appointed the adjudicator at
the Music Festival. He adjudicated the Steelband Music Festival in Grenada,
Antigua and Guyana. He is credited with being one of the first people
to write music for the pan.
In 1966 he represented Trinidad
and Tobago as musical director at the Commonwealth Festival of Arts. He
composed "Intermezzo in E Flat" as the 1966 test piece for the
Trinidad and Tobago Music Festival. In 1967 he represented Trinidad and
Tobago at the Expo in Grenada. He is also credited with composing the
background music for the films "Right and Wrong" and the "Caribbean
Fox". In 1972 he was appointed musical director and arranger for
the Casablanca Steel Orchestra. Mr. Prospect is one of the first individuals
to create a pan theatre. In 1978 he produced a long playing album for
the Renegades Steel Orchestra. In 1981 he had the honour of being selected
as the musical director of Witco Desperadoes Steel Orchestra for their
English Tour. In 1982, under his baton and with his arrangement of Tchaikovsky's
"1812 Overture", Casablanca won the prestigious Music Festival.
Mr. Prospect retired as police bandmaster in 1982. After his retirement
he worked as a steelband consultant at the Inter-Cultural Music Institute,
where he assisted with the music notation for major pan events including
the Music Festival and Panorama.
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