SINBAD THE SAILOR & THE STORIES OF SCHEHERAZADE
With James Mayhew and the Orchestra of the Music Makers, conducted by Chan Tze Law.
I promised exciting news… and it doesn’t get much better than this. The Cheltenham Music Festival has asked me to work with a magnificent international orchestra from Singapore. They are called The Orchestra of the Music Makers and the music they requested is Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov – one of my all time favourites and music used at the most recent concert I did with the de Havilland Philharmonic in Hatfield.
So I will be dusting down my costume and brushing up words and pictures for Cheltenham this summer. The concert takes place in the beautifully refurbished Town Hall in Cheltenham on Saturday July 7th at 12 Noon.
If you are not familiar with the Family Concerts I’ve been involved in, they combine live music, storytelling and art in a unique way. The orchestra will play a complete performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s masterpiece and each section will be introduced with carefully researched stories. But what really draws the audience in is the art. It’s a tight-rope walk for me, but I love it too. I get to stand on stage with a huge orchestra and paint along. This representation of the score in a visual way helps children find a way into the music, for the illustration is projected onto a screen so everyone can see it grow before their eyes.
The Orchestra of the Music Makers is a recently formed orchestra of young, dazzlingly talented musicians from Singapore, and has been gathering superb reviews. They are performing several concerts in Cheltenham for this year’s festival, which marks their European debut. How proud I am to be part of it all!
CLICK HERE to visit their impressive website, with snippets of their recordings!
This, then, is an extraordinary opportunity for your children to hear a world class orchestra, hear exciting stories from the Arabian Nights and to see LIVE art being created simultaneously. And all for the price of a trip to the cinema!
There will be an opportunity to win an original illustration created during the concert, and I’ll stay at the end to sign books too.
So I hope very much you will come along and meet this wonderful orchestra from the Far East, at this fun filled and exciting concert. There will be tales of princesses and pomegranates, genies and monsters and fabulous fairytale cities. Come along and be carried away on a magic flying carpet of stories, music and art…
Priority booking for this really exciting event opens on MONDAY 27th of February, and public booking opens on MONDAY MARCH 5th.
Tickets £8 BOX OFFICE: 0844 880 8094
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