Ink note in Britten's hand.
2 pages
1½ sides 20.3 x 25.3 cm
Published in the 1961 Aldeburgh Festival Programme Book, p.64, for 7 July.
Reproduced in the programmes for the 1979 and 1984 Festivals, the 1984 Snape Proms and the 1986 Festival. These, with the exception of 1979, repeat the 1961 note, but with slight changes to the first sentence.
Paul Kildea ‘Britten on Music’ (OUP, 2003), pp.380-1. Kildea’s reproduction of the 1961 text includes the 1979 change.
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