Programme accompanying the eighth Aldeburgh Festival providing coverage of the performances and events held in and around Aldeburgh. It includes articles on the music of Schubert, Modern Stained Glass, the Aldeburgh Sea Defences and the Second Towneley Shepherd's Play. It supplies details of all the musical performances held that year including the opera, The Turn of the Screw. There were recitals given by The Amadeus Quartet, The Zorian Quartet and the Purcell Singers as well as performances of choral and orchestral music, and a first stage presentation in England of Alexander Reid's play Once upon a Rhyme by the Ipswich Theatre Company. The programme also gives details for the lectures and exhibitions given throughout the Festival.
Festival Printing designed by Stuart Rose. Printed by Benham & Company Ltd.
Listed at the back are the members of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir and the Festival Donors and Guarantors.
Programme price 5 shillings.
Advertisements:
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Associated British (Films), 'The Dam Busters';
Independent Film Distributors, Forthcoming Films.
Articles:
Schubert by Sir George Grove;
A small anthology of Modern Stained Glass by John Betjeman;
The Aldeburgh Sea Defences, (author unspecified);
The Second Towneley Shepherds' Play by Elizabeth Sweeting.
Exhibitions:
A small anthology of Modern Stained Glass, in the Studio at Sand Hill, arranged by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens for the Arts Council of Great Britain;
Suffolk Rural Crafts for the Home, in the Church Hall, arranged for the Sufolk Rural Community Council;
Portraits in East Anglia, in the East Suffolk Hotel, arranged by Stephen Reiss.
Lectures:
Modern Stained Glass given by Patrick Reyntiens in the Jubilee Hall;
The Walpoles and East Anglia given by R. Wyndham Ketton-Cremer in the Baptist Chapel.
Photographs:
Portrait of Franz Schubert by an unknown artist, in the possession of Benjamin Britten;
The recording of St Nicolas in the Parish Church, Aldeburgh, photographs by Kurt Hutton;
The Turn of the screw, Peter Pears as Quint and David Hemmings as Miles, English Opera Group Production, photographer unspecified;
Stained Glass Panel designed by John Piper for Oundel School Chapel, photographer unspecified;
The Aldeburgh Sea Defences, photographer unspecified.
1 volume
Bound into a volume which includes the years 1954-1960; 18.5 x 24.5cm with pencil annotations.
Master copy (bound volume)
Archive
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PG-AF-1955
