THE SNOWMAN - FILM OF THE LIVE STAGE SHOW op.628 (November 2010)

Commissioned by: Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd
Instrumentation: Piano, flute, percussion, synthesized keyboards 1 and 2

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Note on Lyrics: Narration by Howard Blake by permission of Raymond Briggs; Lyrics of 'Walking in the air' by Howard Blake
Duration: 84 mins
First Performance: Filmed in Birmingham Repertory Theatre Sunday January 24th 2010 with live audience.

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Sheet music from Chester Music www.chesternovello.com

All sheet music for "The Snowman" and "Walking In The Air" since 2010 is published and available from Chester Music Ltd, part of The Music Sales Group, www.chesternovello.com It can be purchased online from MusicRoom.com, or from music retailers.

"Walking In The Air" is also available in a concert piano-only version arranged by the composer direct from Highbridge Music as part of the collection of piano pieces called "Lifecycle", available form Amazon or from Highbridge Music.

Howard Blake describes 25 years of The Snowman animated film and 10 years of The Snowman Stage Show at Sadler's Wells Peacock Theatre in London's West End and plays "Walking in the Air". View the recording here.

The classic original Columbia album conducted by Howard Blake with treble soloist Peter Auty and narration by Bernard Cribbins is available from Sony Music Entertainment CDX71116CD, Amazon and retailers.

The 2010 DVD film of The Snowman Live Stage Show narrated by Joanna Lumley is available from Sony Music Entertainment, CDR 81267; also from Amazon and retailers.

Notes

Film produced by Emer Patten, directed by Nick Wickham for Splinter Films. Executive producers Stuart Rogers and Howard Blake; musical director Jeremy Young; stage director Bill Alexander; choreographer Robert North; designer Ruari Murchison; lighting Tim Mitchell; sound programmer Stuart Andrews; with the cast of the Peacock Theatre/Sadlers Wells/Birmingham Rep production London 2010. Producer for Sony Music Entertainment UK: Mike O’Keefe, for Sony Classical: Pollyanna Gunning, Phil Saville; for Birmingham Repertory Theatre:  Wiff Maton,Tomas Wright, Milorad Žakula, John Pitt.

Lyrics

Lyrics of 'Walking in the Air' by Howard Blake

We're walking in the air,
We're floating in the moonlit sky,
The people far below are sleeping as we fly.

I'm holding very tight,
I'm riding in the midnight blue,
I'm finding I can fly so high above with you.

On across the world
The villages go by like dreams,
The rivers and the hills,
The forests and the streams.

Children gaze open mouthed,
Taken by surprise,
Nobody down below believes their eyes.

We're surfing in the air,
We're swimming in the frozen sky,
We're drifting over icy
Mountains floating by.

Suddenly swooping low on an ocean deep,
Rousing up a mighty monster from his sleep,

We're walking in the air,
We're floating in the midnight sky
And everyone who sees us greets us as we fly

Performances

14th December 2020 - 22nd December 2020

The full-length film of the Snowman Stage Show, as presented live at The Peacock Theatre in London's West over the last 23 years, will this year be projected on screen in its full-length 85-minute cinema version made by Sony Entertainments., Theatre run announced of the full-length Sony film of the The Snowman Show with the West End cast from the famous, long--running Peacock Theatre production

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