Programme for the thirteenth Aldeburgh Festival providing full details of all the events and performances happening throughout the Festival. A complete listing of all the productions performed over the course of the Festival is given alongside a number of articles, photographs and details of the exhibitions and lectures held.
The BBC Transcription Service were involved with the Festival and this year they worked alongside Imogen Holst on a series of Mediaeval Secular Music Recitals.
Notification that the Fourteenth Aldeburgh Festival will take place from 10-25 June 1961. (In the event 28 Jun-9 Jul 1961).
Designed by John Lewis. Printed by Benham & Company Ltd.
Inside the front cover are maps of Suffolk and Aldeburgh. Given at the back is administrative information including the notice of the death of the photographer Kurt Hutten, local information for visitors and information on the Jubilee Fund. Also listed at the back are the members of the Council of the Aldeburgh Festival and the Festival Guarantors and Subscribers.
Programme price: £3.
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Miller's, Exhibition of Musical Instruments;
Aldeburgh Gallery, Exhibition of Old Master and other Drawings;
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Articles:
Suffolk in the Middle Ages by Norman Scarfe;
The Problem of Modern Music by Hans Keller;
The Jubilee Hall by Stephen Reiss;
Gustav Mahler 1860-1911 by Donald Mitchell;
Some Suffolk Excursions by Ronald Blythe.
Exhibitions:
Ruskin Drawings, in the Moot Hall, arranged by Sir Kenneth Clark for the Arts Council of Great Britain;
Young Painters and Craftsmen, in the Church Hall;
Suffolk Rural Crafts, in the British Legion Hall, arranged by C. Howard Wilkinson.
Lectures:
Ruskin Today given by Sir Kenneth Clark in the Jubilee Hall;
Past Productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream given by The Reverend W. Moelwyn Merchant in the Baptist Chapel;
Music in the Twenties given by Aaron Copland in the Jubilee Hall;
Campanology given by Ranald Clouston in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
Cratfield Church, Suffolk, photographed by Edwin Smith;
Central Panel of the 14th Century Retable in Thornham Parva Church, Suffolk;
Gustav Mahler, Bronze head by Auguste Rodin, by courtesy of Phaidon Press Ltd;
Mediaeval Screen, Bramfield Church, Suffolk, photographed by Edwin Smith;
Drawing of part of the façade of San Martino, Lucca, by John Ruskin, by courtesy of the Royal Academy of Arts;
Purcell Cabaret, 1959, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Design by John Piper, photographer unspecified;
Mediaeval Alabaster Carving in Long Melford Church, The Adoration of the Magi, photographed by Anthea Sievekin;
The Village Street, Kersey, Suffolk, photographed by Edwin Smith;
Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, photographed by E. Harvey;
Framlingham Castle from the air, photographed by Aerofilms Ltd.;
Royal Hospital School Band, Aldeburgh, 1959, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Mayor of Aldeburgh 1908, lent by Hedley Ing;
Orford Lighthouse from William Daniel's A Voyage Round Great Britain, 1822.
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-1960
