Programme for the fourth Aldeburgh Festival covering performances held throughout the fortnight at various locations in and around Aldeburgh. It includes a foreword written by the Earl of Harewood, articles on Aldeburgh, Change Ringing, Elizabethan Music and Jephtha: The Last Oratorio, and provides details of exhibitions, lectures and recitals held throughout the festival. Listed at the back are the members of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir, and the Festival Donors and Guarantors.
Designed and edited by John and Griselda Lewis. Printed by W. S. Cowell Ltd.
Programme price 5 shillings.
Part of the inaugural Festival of Britain (1951) celebrating a hundred years since the Great Exhibition (1851).
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Heywood Hill's Bookshop, Great Exhibition 1852, A Collection of Books, Prints and Panoramas;
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Articles:
Change Ringing by The Earl of Cranbrook;
Elizabethan Music by Imogen Holst;
Jephtha: The Last Oratorio by Hubert Langley;
Views of Aldeburgh - Past and Present by Elizabeth Sweeting.
Exhibitions:
Thomas Churchyard and Henry Bright at Sand Hill, arranged by the Hon. Robert Gathorne-Hardy;
Six Modern East Anglian Painters at Hill House;
Books on Suffolk Topography at the Church Hall, arranged by the East Suffolk County Library;
Fishing off Aldeburgh at the Wentworth Hotel, arranged by Mr W. V. [Billy] Burrell.
Lectures:
William Cowper given by Lord David Cecil in the Baptist Chapel;
Micropolitan Art given by Sir Kenneth Clark, K. C. B. in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
Aerial View of Aldeburgh, Photoflight Ltd, Elstree;
The May Day Conference: Albert Herring, Act 1 photographed by H. J. Mydtshov, Copenhagen;
Scene from The English Opera Group Production of 'Dido and Aeneas' photographed by Roger Wood;
The Lifeboat (outside the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh) photographed by Ford Jenkins;
On the Beach at Aldeburgh photographed by Ford Jenkins;
River with Wherries, pastel by Henry Bright photographed by A. E. Coe and Sons Ltd, Norwich;
Aldeburgh Parish Church Floodlit for the 1950 Festival photographed by B. W. Allen, Aldeburgh;
On the Meare, Thorpeness photographed by Ford Jenkins.
1 volume
Bound into a volume which includes the years 1948-1953; 18.5 x 24.5cm with pencil annotations.
Included at the back is an A4 sheet of (unknown) handwritten notes listing exhibition details.
Master copy (bound volume)
Archive
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PG-AF-1951
