Programme for the inaugural Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts. It covers the performances given throughout the week at various locations in Aldeburgh, and includes a number of articles relating to Aldeburgh and details of exhibitions, lectures and recitals held throughout the Festival. Inside the front cover is a map of Aldeburgh and listed at the back are the members of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir and the Patrons of the Festival.
Edited by Eric Crozier for the Aldeburgh Festival Committee; design by John Lewis. Printed by W. S. Cowell Ltd.
Programme price 5 shillings.
Articles:
The Aldeburgh Festival by The Earl of Harewood;
The Origin of The Aldeburgh Festival by Eric Crozier;
Aldeburgh in 1844 by William White;
Aldeburgh in 1844 by Nicholas Fenwick Hele;
The Aldeburgh Parish Church by R. C. R. Godfrey
Exhibitions:
Stage Models and Designs for Peter Grimes at the Moot Hall, Designer Kenneth Greene;
Contemporary Painting By East Anglian Artists at Alde House in Association with the Arts Council of Great Britain;
Oil Paintings, Water Colours and Drawings by John Constable, R.A., from the collection of Doctor H. A. C. Gregory at Sandhills and Prior's Hill;
Suffolk Writers, Past and Present arranged by the National Book League in association with the East Suffolk County Library.
Photographs:
The Moot Hall, Cottage - Town Steps, The Milkman, Slaughden, The Old Custom House, Cutting up Skate, Aldeburgh Lifeboat, Drying Nets by Bill Brandt;
Paintings of John Constable - Hampstead Heath, Waterloo Bridge, Coast Scene, Study of Trees, by unknown photographer;
A First Meeting of The English Opera Group (Christmas 1946) (PH 5/10), Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten at the piano by George Rodger; Production of The Rape of Lucretia (1946) and Production of Albert Herring (1947) by Angus McBean.
Lectures:
George Crabbe and Peter Grimes given by E. M. Forster;
Edward Fitzgerald given by William Plomer;
The Theatre Today given by Tyrone Guthrie;
The Future of Music in England given by Steuart Wilson;
Constable and Gainsborough as East Anglian Painters given by Sir Kenneth Clark K. C. B.
1 volume
Bound into a volume which includes the years 1948-1953; 18.5 x 24.5cm with pencil annotations.
Master copy (bound volume)
Archive
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PG-AF-1948
