James Mayhew

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Gender Male
Industry Arts
Location United Kingdom
Interests I love to tell stories and I am passionate about bringing art music and culture into the lives of children., I enjoy:, Stories, music, art, sleeping, chocolate, swimming, grand opera, baking cakes, gardening, b & w movies, Rimsky-Korsakov, The Moomins, ballet, theatre, opera, set designs, children's books, Russian opera, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bel Canto, Opera, illustration, folk tales, books, gramophones
Favorite Movies Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, La Belle et la Bete, A Matter of Life and Death, The Munsters, The Waltons, Calamity Jane, Carry On series, Midnight (Claudette Colbert), Born Yesterday (Judy Holliday), Laurel & Hardy, Fantasia, A Christmas Story, Houseboat (Sophia Loren), Roman Holiday, Barefoot in the Park, Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford), Miranda (Glynis Johns), Mad about Men (Glynis Johns), Some Like It Hot
Favorite Music Opera, Rimsky-Korsakov, Kitezh, Angela Gheorghiu, Rossini, Bellini, Mussorgsky, Puccini, Sibelius, Nelly Miricioiu, Victoria de los Angeles, Sylvia Sass, Agnetha Faltskog
Favorite Books The Great Gatsby, Wuthering Heights, My Musical Life (Rimsky-Korsakov, The Kalevala, Anne of Green Gables, Moominland Midwinter, Carbonel, Green Smoke, Chester the Worldly Pig, The Summer Book, Arabian Nights, A Child's Garden of Verse, Where the Wild Things Are, The Big Clean Up (Weiss), The Little Red Engine (Diana Ross), Pookie puts the World Right, Little O/The Urchin (Unnerstad), Danny Fox, Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf, The Fiancee & other stories (Chekov), The Hotel (Bowen), The Enchanted April (von Arnim)