Programme for the twelfth Aldeburgh Festival providing complete details of all the events and performances happening throughout the Festival. Full details of the concerts are preceded by a number of articles and photographs largely relating to 1958 Festival. Much of the Festival was given over to celebrating the tercentenary of the birth of Purcell and many of the concerts included work by him and his predecessors. There was a new production of Britten's Rape of Lucretia and a number of other first performances which were all broadcast on the BBC's Third Programme. Intermingled with the musical concerts were various lectures and programmes of verse and drama.
Notification that the Thirteenth Aldeburgh Festival will take place from 11-26 June 1960.
Edited by Donald Mitchell. Wood-engravings for programme book cover and illustrations by Reynolds Stone. Printed by Benham & Company Ltd.
Given at the back are the Festival Notes including comment on the deaths of Paul Beck and Erwin Stein, the involvement of the BBC Transcription Service, and the Friends of the Aldeburgh Festival. Listed at the back are the members of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir and Orchestra, The Purcell Singers, and the Festival Subscribers.
Programme price: Unspecified.
Advertisements:
Boosey & Hawkes, The Stage Works of Benjamin Britten;
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Adnams, Southwold Championship Bitter;
Aldeburgh Gallery, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings;
COLT Cedar Houses;
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Decca Record Company Ltd, Festival Artists;
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ATV, best wishes to The Aldeburgh Festival;
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Granada TV, What the Papers Say;
Watneys, Ales and Stouts;
COLT, Cedar Houses;
The Associated British Group, Thank you for a wonderful evening;
Associated-Rediffusion, London Music Festival.
Articles:
Homage to the British Orpheus by Peter Pears;
The Portrait Question by Myfanwy Piper;
Folk Songs by Imogen Holst;
The Rape of Lucretia by Anthony Gishford;
Staverton Park by Hugh Farmar;
Robert Burns, A Selection from his Letters edited by J. De Lancey Ferguson.
Exhibitions:
Rodin Bronzes, in the Moot Hall, arranged by Lillian Browse;
Contemporary Portraits, in the Church Hall, chosen by Mary Potter and Peter Pears;
Festival Photographs by Kurt Hutten, in the Moot Hall.
Lectures:
Rodin given by Sir Kenneth Clark in the Jubilee Hall;
Suffolk Poets given by The Earl of Cranbrook in the Jubilee Hall;
Kilvert and his Diary given by William Plomer in the Baptist Chapel.
Photographs:
Henry Purcell. A drawing attributed to Kneller, reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum;
A Purcell Cabaret. Barry Kay's designs for costumes, photographer unspecified;
Rehearsals 1958: Tirésias, John Cranko, Osbert Lancaster and Peter Pears; Noye's Fludde, Benjamin Britten and Mr. Squirrel; Noye's Fludde, Owen Brannigan with some of the children in the ark. Photographed by Kurt Hutten;
In Staverton Park, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
Acrobate by Auguste Rodin, in the possession of G. Delbanco, photographer unspecified;
George Frideric Handel by Philippe Mercier, reproduced by courtesy of the Earl of Malmesbury, photographer unspecified;
Bach Concert in Aldeburgh Parish Church, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
The Rape of Lucretia. John Piper's design for the drop curtain, 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)
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