Programme for the sixth 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's association with Edward Clodd, The Storm at Aldeburgh, music-making for Royal purposes and the art of sculpture. It also provides details of all the musical events with programme notes (including those commemorating the Queen's Coronation), exhibitions and lectures held throughout the Festival. Listed at the back are the members of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir and the Festival Donors and Guarantors.
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Programme price 6 shillings.
Advertisements:
British Lion Distribution Film Production, 'They Who Dare';
Aldeburgh Festival Film Showing of 'Moulin Rouge';
Humphries Film Laboratories, wishes of success to the Aldeburgh Festival;
Mole-Richardson Ltd, wishes of success to the Aldeburgh Festival;
West Cumberland Silk Mills Ltd, fabrics by Sekers;
Faber & Faber, The Libretto to The Rape of Lucretia;
J. & W. Chester, Full Score to Berkley's Stabat Mater;
J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Production Programme of Ealing and Pinewood Studios;
Decca Record Company Ltd, Announcement that Britten and Pears have recently joined Decca;
Barclays Bank, As It Happens the only bank in Aldeburgh;
W. S. Cowell Ltd, publication announcement for 'Alde Estuary' by W. G. Arnott;
W. S. Cowell Ltd, publication announcement for 'Parnassian Molehill' compiled and edited by The Earl of Cranbrook;
HMV, "His Master's Voice" The Hallmark of Quality, The Gramaphone Company Limited and Record Catalogue;
Boosey and Hawkes Ltd, publication announcement for Gloriana, an opera by William Plomer with music by Benjamin Britten.
Articles:
The Quest for Clodd by William Plomer.;
The Storm at Aldeburgh by P. V. Davies;
Music for a Sovereign by William Mann;
Some Observations Concerning Sculpture by David Sylvester.
Exhibitions:
John Nash, R.A. at Sand Hill;
Six Twentieth-Century Sculptors at the Church Hall, arranged by Mary Potter and Peter Pears;
Drawings by W. K. Haselden at the Church Hall;
Six Suffolk Characters 1500-1900 at Hill House, arranged by the Ipswich and East Suffolk Record Office.
Lectures:
The Tradition of Humour in English Literature given by Stephen Porter in the Baptist Chapel;
Victorian Architecture given by John Betjeman in the Jubilee Hall;
The Hero in Modern Poetry given by W. H. Auden in the Baptist Chapel.
Photographs:
The Night of 31 January 1953, photograph by B. W. Allen;
The Morning of 1 February 1953, photograph by B. W. Allen;
Wissington Woods (Suffolk) Watercolour by John Nash, R.A., photographer unspecified;
Hugo Wolf, photograph lent by Basil Douglas;
Isaac Johnson, Woodbridge Surveyor 1754-1835, reproduced by kind permission of Mr. W. Johnson Naunton of Woodbridge;
Scene from 'The Forgotten Room', photograph by Paul Wilson;
Scene from 'Dancing' a Ballet to music, photograph by Paul Wilson;
The Fashion for Ugly Pets, a cartoon by W. K. Haselden;
Two Brothers by Georg Ehrlich, photograph by Lt.-Col. W. C. Manning;
Cricket at Thorpeness. (PH/5/109)
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
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