Halle goes to the movies
Reporter: Marina Berry
Date published: 24 March 2015
THE Halle Orchestra was back home after an 11-day European tour to play some of the great movie classics in the latest of its pops concerts.
Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” was one of the highlights of a concert under the baton of Bury-born Stephen Bell, which also showcased Strauss’s “Blue Danube” waltz, used in “2001, a Space Odyssey.”
Soprano Sarah Fox sang Puccini’s “O mio babbino caro” (used in “A Room With a View)”.
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