Leaflet giving the programme of performances for the duration of the tenth Festival which opened with a special gala performance of Britten's comic opera Albert Herring in the presence of Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal. In addition the English Opera Group also performed Lennox Berkeley's opera, Ruth and gave the first performance in England of Buxtehude's series of Cantatas, The Last Judgement. Other concerts that year included a Violin and Piano Recital of work by composers including Bach and Schubert performed by Britten and Yehudi Menuhin, a concert of madrigals and Lutenist songs commemorating the quatercentenary of the birth of Thomas Morley and a celebration of the work of William Blake, alongside which the Aldeburgh Festival ran a competition for the best new setting of one of his poems by a composer under the age of thirty. The four songs selected for the final short-list were performed in the Jubilee Hall on 21 June. Britten and Pears gave a recital of Viennese Songs and there were additional performances by The Amadeus String Quartet and The Purcell Singers. Britten's The Courtly Dances from Gloriana was reorchestrated into a special Aldeburgh version and performed alongside work by Purcell, Dowland, Haydn and Elgar in an orchestral concert on 23 June.
Details given for the Festival Services; leaflet price not given.
On the reverse is a map of the Aldeburgh marshes and town with the locations involved with the Festival marked.
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Annotated under Thursday 20 June with an additional event, '4 (?) EOGA Tea party'. Possibly Peter Pears' hand.
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