Programme for the eleventh Aldeburgh Festival providing coverage of the performances and other events such as the lectures and exhibitions and Festival Services held throughout the ten days of the Festival. It begins with a number of articles on topics ranging from Musical Parody and Satire to the life of Edward Lear, examples of whose artwork were on exhibition in the Moot Hall throughout the Festival. To open the Festival there were performances of Monteverdi's Il Ballo Delle Ingrate and Poulenc's Opéra-Bouffe, Tirésias whilst Noye's Fludde, Britten's latest opera also received its first performance by the English Opera Group.
Notification that the Twelfth Aldeburgh Festival will take place from 19-28 June 1959.
Edited by Donald Mitchell. Wood-engravings for programme book cover and illustrations by Reynolds Stone.
Printed by Benham & Company Ltd.
Listed at the back are the members of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir and Orchestra, and the Festival Subscribers.
Programme price: 5 shillings.
Advertisements:
Boosey & Hawkes, International Music Publishers;
Leeds Centenary Music Festival, performance listing;
Benham and Company Limited, Involvement with the Eleventh Aldeburgh Festival;
The Aldeburgh Gallery, Old Drawings and Prints, Picture Restoration undertaken;
The Royal Opera House, details of repertory performances;
John Calder Publishers, new and forthcoming books;
Opera Magazine, June edition
COLT Cedar Festival Cottage, pre-fab housing design;
Decca Record Company Ltd, Britten and Pears record exclusively for Decca;
Barclays Bank, As It Happens - the only bank in Aldeburgh;
Schweppes, Schweppervescence Lasts the Whole Drink Through;
ICI, Scene Change, products for the stage designer;
ABC Television Network, Today's Lively Art illustration;
The Associated British Group, Compliments of;
COLT Cedar Festival Cottage, pre-fab housing design;
HMV, records by Yehudi Menuhin, Owen Brannigan and Charles Mackerras on His Master's Voice;
N.P.K. Fisons for good farming;
Granada, show business know how;
Spicers, personal writing papers.
Articles:
Transcriptions by Erwin Stein;
Musical Parody and Satire by Hans Keller;
St. Bartholomew's Church, Orford by John Steuart-Gratton;
Les Mamelles de Tirésias by David Drew;
The Herring by Georde T. Atkinson
Edward Lear by Brian Reade;
Some Thoughts on Fauré by Arthur Hutchings.
Exhibitions:
Edward Lear, in the Moot Hall, arranged by The Arts Council;
Contemporary Drawings by British Painters, in the Church Hall, arranged by the Norwich 1958 Exhibition Committee;
Reynolds Stone, in the Church Hall.
Lectures:
Ballads given by Edwin Muir in the Jubilee Hall, (Cancelled);
Photographs:
Noah and his family, from the Richmond Tomb at Framlingham Church, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
Morley Quatercentenary Concert at Great Glemham House (1957), photographed by Kurt Hutten;
Rehearsing for the 1958 Festival (PH/4/242), Red House, Aldeburgh, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
Herrings in the Smoke House, photographed by Ford Jenkins;
Hauling in herring nets - Lowestoft drifters, photographed by Ford Jenkins;
The Norman ruins at Orford, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
Orford Church, Kurt Hutten;
Osbert Lancaster's design for the drop curtain of Les mamelles de Tirésias.
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-1958
