Brass Band Buizingen to perform `When Worlds Collide’
Nigel’s latest work for brass band will be premiered by Brass Band Buizingen in the 4th Flemish Open Brass Band Championshipson 14th April in Mechelen, Belgium.
Composer’s Note: `When Worlds Collide´ seeks to recreate the atmosphere and sentiment of the American cult Sci-Fi movies of the 1950’s such as Robert Wise’s 1951 film `The day the Earth Stood Still’ and `Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ directed by Don Siegel in 1956, as well as Rudolph Maté’s 1951 film `When Worlds Collide’.
`When Worlds Collide´ is programmatic with subtitled sub-sections:
1. Crop Circles – 2. Lights in the Sky – 3. Strange Happenings – 4. Sightings – 5. “We Come In Peace” – 6. Alien Abduction – 7. Analysis of the Earthlings –
8. Teleportation – 9. New Understandings – 10. Visions of Far Off Worlds – 11. Colonisation!