When I was little, I used to love watching The Snowman. Along with Rupert and the Frog Song, it was one of those short, music-based children’s films that I wanted to watch again and again, bursting into tears every time it ended until dad or mum rewound the video. As you can read here, it is now forty years old, and its creation is being celebrated with a new version. The new version is played on a violin rather than sung. While it’s good to see an old Christmas classic being kept alive, if you ask me it doesn’t come close to the original, and I certainly can’t see myself wanting to listen to it over and over again.