Programme for the second Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts covering performances held throughout the week at various locations in and around Aldeburgh. It also includes a number of articles relating to Aldeburgh and gives details of exhibitions, lectures and recitals held throughout the Festival.
Edited by Eric Crozier for the Aldeburgh Festival Committee; designed by John Lewis.
Printed by W. S. Cowell Ltd.
Listed at the back are the members of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir, the Aldeburgh Choral Society and the Patrons of the Festival.
Programme price 5 shillings.
Advertisements:
Boosey and Hawkes Ltd, New publications of Benjamin Britten;
The Bodley Head: The Rape of Lucretia, commemorative volume, edited by Eric Crozier; Peter Grimes and other poems, Montagu Slater
Articles:
Looking Back on the First Aldeburgh Festival by E. M. Forster;
Coastal Erosion at Aldeburgh by C. E. Colbeck;
East Suffolk Churches by John Piper;
Bach and Purcell by Peter Pears.
Exhibitions:
Drawings by Thomas Gainsborough, R. A. at Sand Hill. Arranged by Dr Mary Woodall, Keeper of the Department of Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture at the City Museum and art Gallery, Birmingham;
Printing in East Anglia - Past and Present at Church Hall. Arranged under the supervision of John Lewis, designer and typographer;
Suffolk China at Church Hall. Arranged under the supervision of Mr and Mrs B. Cowie;
Suffolk Ships at Hill House. Arranged under the supervision of W. Brooke.
Lectures:
Thomas Gainsborough given by Dr Mary Woodall;
Sailing in East Anglia given by Arthur Ransome;
An East Anglian Bishop given by Robert Gathorne-Hardy;
The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial given by R. L. S. Bruce-Mitford;
Margery Kempe of Lynn given by Robert Speaight.
Photographs:
Suffolk Churches by John Piper: 1) Blythburgh - from the marsh, south-west; 2) Blythburgh - detail of the south side; 3) Framlingham - tomb of Thomas, second Duke of Norfolk, 1554; 4) Framlingham - the tower; 5) Aldeburgh - from the south-east; 6) Snape - the south porch; 7) Ufford - the south porch;
The Miracles of Saint Nicolas by Anderson of Rome: 1) Nicolas rescues three girls from poverty and shame; 2) Nicolas saves a ship and its crew;
Drawings by Thomas Gainsborough by A. C. Cooper: 1) Study of Trees; 2) Weston Lane;
English Opera Group Productions by Angus McBean: 1) The Rape of Lucretia - Male and Female Chorus (PHPN/17/1/27); 2) The Rape of Lucretia - Lucretia and Tarquinius (PHPN/17/1/15); 3) Albert Herring - Lady Billows (PHPN/1/1/56); 4) Albert Herring - Albert (PHPN/1/1/44);
Aldeburgh by B. W. Allen: 1) The Storm of March 1st, 1949.
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-1949
