Leaflet giving the programme of performances for the thirteenth Festival which opened with the English Opera Group's production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, especially composed for the reopening of the Jubilee Hall and due to be performed in the presence of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent, although in the event she did not attend. There was also a complete performance of the piece before an invited audience for the BBC recording just prior to the opening of the Festival on 10 June. The English Opera Group presented Britten's The Rape of Lucretia which was a revival of the 1959 production. Other pieces of Britten's performed during the Festival included his Canticle No. 2 Abraham and Isaac, his Choral variations: A Boy was Born (the revised version of 1958 which included organ accompaniment), a number of folk songs including Sailor-boy and Master Kilby, and his Mazurka elegiaca.
There were two concerts by the visiting Netherlands Chamber Orchestra who performed first a number of pieces by Bach including Brandenburg Concertos 5 and 6, and Sinfonia for oboe and strings (Cantata No. 21), and second a variety of work by composers such as Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Strawinsky. In addition there were five evenings of Mediaeval Sacred Music devised by Imogen Hölst and produced in collaboration with the BBC Transcription Service as well as five evenings of Bach Sonatas. RADA presented a production of Brecht's The Good Woman of Sezchuan and there were appearances by The Leeds Festival Singers and The Society for the Promotion of New Music.
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One copy annotated with date change to 28 June - 9 July 1961 but it is the 1960 programme.
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https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PG-AF-1960-2
