Britten Pears Arts Integrated Catalogue - Archive

Material related to the Aspen Award

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Level	Ref.	Title
Collection	BBW	Writings of Benjamin Britten
Section	BBW/2	Britten's published and unpublished...
Sub-section	BBW/2/1	Britten's writings on his life...

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ReferenceBBW/2/1/25

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Material related to the Aspen Award

DateJuly 1964

DescriptionMaterial 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

Extent3 items

Publication NoteThe 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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3 Component Record(s)

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Item	BBW/2/1/25/1	Ephemera related to Aspen Award speech	1964
Item	BBW/2/1/25/2	Aspen Award speech	1964
Item	BBW/2/1/25/3	Reprint from 'The Saturday Review' of Aspen Award speech	1964