Programme for the fourteenth Aldeburgh Festival providing details of all the events held throughout the Festival. A day by day summary is provided together with a complete listing of all the productions performed over the course of the Festival as well as a number of articles, photographs and details of the exhibitions and lectures held.
The BBC Transcription Service collaborated again with Imogen Holst this year presenting five programmes on the music of Venice and the Royal Opera House, which had taken over the management of the English Opera Group in 1961, presented revivals of the Turn of the Screw and Noye's Fludde.
Notification that the Fifteenth Aldeburgh Festival will take place from 14-24 June 1962.
Designed and printed by Benham & Company Ltd.
Wood-engravings by Meg Stevens.
Included at the front is a map of Aldeburgh and the names of the Members of the Council of the Aldeburgh Festival. Printed at the back are the members of the English Chamber Orchestra, the Purcell Singers and the Aldeburgh Festival Choir, administrative information including useful local information for visitors and Festival notes such as information on the progress of the Jubilee Fund. Included is a notice that the widow of photographer Kurt Hutten has given a collection of his photographs to the Festival and four examples of his work follow. Also listed at the back are details of the Covenated Subscribers, The Festival Improvements Fund and the names of people who have given gifts for the auction and have donated to the Festival Improvements Fund since 1960.
Programme price: Unspecified.
Advertisements:
Decca Record Company Ltd, Pears and Britten on Decca Records;
Associated-Rediffusion, Television, unlike Cyclops has three eyes;
Tolly and Cobbold, Ales;
ICI, Variations on a Shellac Theme;
Anglia Television, East Anglia's Independent Television;
Associated British Picture Corporation, wishes of success to the Aldeburgh Festival;
COLT Cedar Houses;
Fisons, That's Why Gardeners use Fisons;
Barclays Bank, As It Happens - the only bank in Aldeburgh;
Granada TV Network;
Marks & Spencer, quality, freshness and value for money;
Boosey & Hawkes, Benjamin Britten - Realisations of Henry Purcell;
Schweppes, Schweppervescence Lasts the Whole Drink Through;
E.M.I. Records, Rostropovitch and Brannigan LP 33.3 r.p.m. records;
Adnams, Champion Southwold Ales;
Miller's, Exhibition of Early Keyboard Instruments;
Watneys, Trust Watneys Draught Red Barrel.
Articles:
Music in Venice 1500-1750 by Imogen Holst;
Aldeburgh - An Anniversary by John Vernon-Wentworth;
The Edinburgh Tapestries by H. Jefferson Barnes
Dunwich by Norman Scarfe;
Sea Bathing, from A Guide to Aldeburgh with a brief description of adjacent places, being a handbook for visitors and residents, published by J. Buck.
Exhibitions:
George Frederic Watts, in the Church Hall, arranged by Wilfred Blunt;
Edinburgh Tapestries, in the British Legion Hall, arranged by the Edinburgh Tapestry Company;
Contemporary Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture, in the Festival Gallary, arranger unspecified;
Early Keyboard Instruments, in the Brudenell Hotel, arranged by Millers of Cambridge.
Lectures:
Wild Life in Africa given by Sir Julian Huxley in the Jubilee Hall;
Steerforth, Copperfield, Dickens and East Anglia given by Angus Wilson in the Baptist Chapel;
George Frederic Watts given by Wilfred Blunt in the Jubilee Hall;
Self-Portraits given by William Plomer in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
A Plan Exhibiting the Remains of the An[t]ient City of Dunwich, A.D. 1587, with key, photographer unspecifed;
George Frederic Watts, Self-portrait at the age of seventeen, by courtesy of the Trustees of the Watts Gallery;
The Piazza of St. Mark's, Venice by John Piper, by courtesy of Jack Lyons, (given to the Festival Auction);
Party Game, Water-colour by Leopold Kupelwieser, 1821 Schubert Museum, Vienna, photographer not specified;
After the dress rehearsal for the first performance of Noye's Fludde, 1958 (PHPN/11/1/2), photographed by Kurt Hutten;
The Turn of The Screw, Act 1 Scene V The Window (PHPN/18/1/3), photographed by Denis de Marney;
Break from Rehearslas for A Midsummer Night's Dream, May 1960, photographed by Keystone Press Agency;
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oberon, Titania and Fairies, Summer 1960, photographed by Maria Austria;
Aldeburgh, Defences Old and New, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
E. M. Forster, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
Suffolk Punch, with Foal A few Hours Old, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
At Framlingham Horse Show, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
The Earl of Cranbrook and John Nash R. A., photographed by Kurt Hutten.
1 volume
Bound into a volume which includes the years 1961-1965; 18.5 x 24.5cm with pencil annotations.
Master copy (bound volume)
Archive
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