Ella Bella Ballerina: Remembering Scheherazade

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Remembering Scheherazade

At last the big day arrived! Sinbad and Scheherazade with Robin Browning and the de Havilland Philharmonic Orchestra at the Weston Auditorium in Hatfield... and it whizzed by in a whirl of music and colour and hundreds of children jumping around to Rimsky-Korsakov!

Other music was from Nielsen's Aladdin suite; and my astonishing costume was specially created, in silk, by Trina Bharwaney, and was worthy of anything by Leon Bakst!

Here are a few pictures of the day...

2 comments:

MaENov 12, 2011 05:28 AM
thanks for sharing that magical time!
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James MayhewNov 12, 2011 02:03 PM
Thank you for your kind words...
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BIOGRAPHY

Born in Stamford, Lincolnshire in1964, James Mayhew grew up in the Dickensian village of Blundeston in Suffolk. After completing a Foundation Course at Lowestoft College, he studied illustration at Maidstone College of Art, graduating in 1987 with First Class honours. His first book for children was Katie's Pictures Show, (Orchard Books 1989) establishing the long running series about a child's adventures in an art gallery. Many of his books have a cultural agenda and James is passionate about introducing children to art, music, opera, ballet and traditional tales.

He has published over 60 books, and illustrated and written for many other colleagues including Philippa Pearce, Martin Waddell and Jackie Morris.

As a storyteller he has devised and performed a series of sell-out concerts for children with the de Havilland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Uttlesforde Orchestra, and has participated in prom performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and at the Cheltenham Music Festival.

He has also created designs and illustrations for the Kirov Mariinsky Opera of St Petersburg and in 1994 won the New York Times award for one of the ten best illustrated books on the year (The Boy and The Cloth of Dreams).

He has made regular appearances at the National Galleries in Edinburgh and London and visits many schools, and arts and literary festivals.

James is a member of the Art Worker's Guild and the Society of Authors.