The Lambton Worm - Dave Collins and Lewis Wilkinson

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The performance of the Lambton Worm written by Dave Collins and Lewis Wilkinson. The work was commissioned and premiered by Durham University Brass Band at the UniBrass Championship 2014. The work won the prize for the Best Original Composition. The Lambton Worm is a programtic work based upon the tale of the Lambton Worm, a NE folk story which is depicted by a narration and accompanied by the band. The band presents a number of key leitmotifs and it is the combination and manipulation of these musical ideas, that lead us through the narrative. The work has a number of interesting technical effects so it creates something exciting to watch and to listen to. As much as possible the text is written in such a way to present the accent used by the people in and around Lambton, which is situated at the North East of County Durham (actually closer to Sunderland than Durham city), to this end the accent that should be used can best be described as pitmatic or makem, there are several minor differences between this and the Geordie accent. Although the work is largely original, it incorporates quotations from the 1867 song, of the same name, by C M Leumane. There are areas of tension in the poem where the rhyme rhythm is intentionally altered to add excitement. This work received it's North East premiere at Durham Cathedral on 6th June 2014. Dave Collins is a Graduate of Grey College, University of Durham with a First Class Honours Degree in Music. He specialised in acoustical composition with Richard Rijnvos, Sam Hayden and Eric Egan. He also composed for fixed media electronics supervised by Peter Manning and Simone Tasrsitani. Further studies were undertaken with Ray Farr (Conducting and Arranging), Bennet Zon (Orchestration) and Huw Thomas (Conducting and Trumpet Performance) Dave is the Composer-in-Residence of the RMT Fishburn Band and Composer-in-Association of City of Cardiff (Melingriffith) Band. Further works by Dave can be found at: www.davecollinsmusic.com Lewis Wilkinson is an undergraduate student reading music at Durham University. From an early age he has been widely associated with several of the county's brass bands. He has performed in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall and the Sage Gateshead as both a singer and trombonist and has also acted professionally in productions at Durham's Gala Theatre. The street band he founded, jazz in my pants, which places big emphasis on aesthetics and theatrics, has performed across the UK at Jazz and Brass festivals and has even travelled to Germany for the biannual Tubingen Stadtfest.