Programme for the tenth Aldeburgh Festival providing coverage of the performances and other events such as the lectures and exhibitions held throughout the ten days of the Festival. It is introduced with a foreward by the Earl of Harewood who wrote about the success of past Festivals and discusses the patronage of artists necessary to the success of Festivals like Aldeburgh's. A number of wide ranging articles follow including one by Peter Pears on Dietrich Buxtehude's The Last Judgment which was performed during the Festival, and one in celebration of the four hundreth anniversary of the birth of Thomas Morley. Other celebratory concerts were given honoring the work of the poet William Blake and the Italian composer, Domenico Scarlatti and for the first time there was a performance of an opera founded on the plays of Shakespeare.
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal was present for a Gala Performance of Britten's Albert Herring and there was also a performance of T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral by Mrs. Ironside Wood's Suffolk Players.
Notification that the Eleventh Aldeburgh Festival will take place from 13-22 Jun 1958.
Printed by Benham & Company Ltd. Cover Design by Richard Chopping.
Listed at the back are the members of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir and the Festival Subscribers and inside the front cover is a map of the Aldeburgh marshes and town with the locations involved with the Festival marked.
Programme price: 5 shillings.
Advertisements:
Decca Record Company Ltd, long playing records by Britten and the Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra;
The Associated British Group, The Changing Shape of Screens;
Romulus-Independent-Remus, Good Wishes to the Tenth Aldeburgh Festival;
Boosey & Hawkes, Igor Stravinsky Catalogue;
Benham and Company Limited, Good Wishes to the Tenth Aldeburgh Festival;
John Murray, publications by Kenneth Clark, John Betjeman and Osbert Lancaster;
Crittall Manufacturing Company Ltd, Galvanized grain-storage silo product advertisement;
Schweppes, Schweppervescence Lasts the Whole Drink Through;
Launder and Gilliat, New Film Releases 'Fortune is a Woman' and 'The Smallest Show on Earth' and in production 'Blue Murder at St.Trinians';
British Lion Films, 'The Truth about Women';
Barclays Bank, As It Happens - the only bank in Aldeburgh;
Churchman's, No. 1 Cigarettes;
Marks and Spencer, It's smart to shop at;
HMV, Yehudi Menuhin and The Amadeus String Quartet on "His Master's Voice"';
East Anglian Daily Times, Recording the progress of the Festival since 1948.
Articles:
Notes on an Opera House for Aldeburgh by H. T. Cadbury-Brown;
The Flora of Suffolk by the Earl of Cranbrook;
The Howard Tombs at Framlingham by Leslie Dow;
Dietrich Buxtehude's The last judgment by Peter Pears;
Extracts from 'A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke' by Thomas Morley;
A Background for Domenico Scarlatti by Sacheverell Sitwell;
Personal Recollections of Edvard Grieg by Percy Grainger;
A Tribute to Edward Elgar by Yehudi Menuhin.
Exhibitions:
Samuel Palmer and his circle - the Shoreham period, in the Moot Hall, arranged by John Commander of the Arts Council of Great Britain;
Contemporary Crafts, at Hill House, arranged by the Guild of Many Crafts;
Five Landscape Painters, in the Church Hall;
Harry Becker, in the Church Hall, arranged by Kenneth Green and Nicholas Loftus.
Lectures:
Stone Age Dance and Music given by Laurens Van Der Post in the Parish Church;
The Novelist's Responsibility given by L. P. Hartley in the Church Hall;
Samuel Palmer and Visionary Painting given by Sir Kenneth Clark.
Photographs:
H. R. H. The Princess Royal with her grandson, Viscount Lascelles, photographed by Tom Blau;
Part of the Tomb of the fourth Duke of Norfolk in Framlingham Church, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
The Bell Ringers of the Parish Church, Aldeburgh, 1957, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
Albert Herring, 1948 (PHPN/1/1/20), photographed by Angus McBean;
Dancers from Wisbech, photographer unspecified;
Britten and Pears In High Street, Aldeburgh, 1948 (PH/5/49), photographed by Kurt Hutten;
The site of the proposed Festival Theatre, 1957, photographed by Tudor Photos;
Samuel Palmer, self portrait, 1828, Ashmolean Museum.
1 volume
Bound into a volume which includes the years 1954-1960; 18.5 x 24.5cm with pencil annotations.
Bound Master without full amount of advertisements.
Master copy (bound volume)
Archive
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