BBC Radio 3’s highly-anticipated version of The Snowman has been axed amid backlash from the original version’s composer.Howard Blake, who composed all the music for the 1982 animated film, was vocal about his upset for the plans for the radio show, which was set to premiere on BBC Radio 3 on Christmas Eve and air on Radio 4 on Christmas Day.Narrated by Stephen Fry, the music and background noises in the radio programme, from piano and strings to the music box and the motorcycle taking off, were to be sung by a choir rather than using any instruments.Blake, 82, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he cared ‘a great deal about The Snowman’ but the new version ‘scares’ him, and it would be impossible for a choir to create, for example, the.
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