Peter Palmer
TENOR Peter Auty (pictured), who appears at the Royal Concert Hall tomorrow, was the original boy singer of Howard Blake's Walking In The Air for the film of The Snowman, released in 1982. But the tune became linked with Aled Jones' hit single, and Auty received no credit until the film was remastered in 2002.
Meanwhile he studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music before joining Opera North. Since then he has sung with many leading companies and orchestras. Tomorrow he will take the leading part – conveying the emotions of a departing soul – in Elgar's dramatic fantasy The Dream of Gerontius. Richard Laing conducts the Nottingham Harmonic Choir and Queen's Park Sinfonia, with Heather Shipp and James Oldfield in supporting roles.
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YOUTHFUL symphonies by Mozart and Schubert are featured in a Nottingham Chamber Orchestra event at St Peter's Church, Ruddington, tomorrow.
Under Andrew Foxley the orchestra will also play Delibes' incidental music for Le Roi s'amuse and Ravel's own arrangement of pieces from his keyboard suite, Le Tombeau de Couperin.
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BEETHOVEN'S Moonlight Sonata opens a Nottingham Classics piano matinée with Di Xiao at the Royal Concert Hall on Sunday (from 11.05am). Chinese moon songs, Chopin preludes and pieces by Debussy and Ravel round out her recital.
IN Southwell Minster Great Hall on Sunday (8pm, retiring collection), violinist Simon Twyford and pianist Geoff Smith will perform sonatas by Handel, Beethoven and Mozart.
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