Material for Britten's speech given on receiving the first Aspen Award. Speech given in Aspen, Colorado, on 31 July 1964. Speech subsequently published as 'On Receiving the First Aspen Award' by Faber and Faber (1964).
Folder mainly contains material for the Faber publication. For earlier drafts in Pears' hand, see BBA/ASPEN_INSTITUTE_FOR_HUMANISTIC_STUDIES
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The corrected text was published by Faber and Faber in 1964 and is reproduced in Paul Kildea ‘Britten on Music’ (OUP, 2003), pp.255-263.
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