19-28 Jun 1959
Leaflet giving the programme of performances for the duration of the twelfth Festival which opened with a special Evensong with music by Purcell and performed by Peter Pears, James Dalton and The Purcell Singers. The English Opera Group presented a new production of Britten's The Rape of Lucretia and a Purcell Cabaret. Also, in celebration of the tercentenary of Purcell's birth there was a series of five evening concerts of the Music of Purcell and his Predecessors, (motets, Tudor and Restoration anthems, and sacred songs) put on in collaboration with the BBC Transcription Service. A number of Britten's orchestral pieces and songs were also performed during the Festival including his Nocturne for tenor and small orchestra, Six Hölderlin Fragments and Five Flower Songs. There was an evening concert of First Performances with pieces by Henze, Seiber and Arnols. The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) performed Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas and there was a programme of verse and music entitled Homage to Robert Burns. The remainder of the concerts included recitals by Britten and Pears, Menuhin, Lysy and Britten and orchestral concerts with pieces by composers such as Mozart, Bach and Handel.
On the reverse is a map of the Aldeburgh marshes and town with the locations involved with the Festival marked.
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