28 Jun-9 Jul 1961
Leaflet giving the programme of performances for the fourteenth Festival which began with the Festival Evensong and the Royal Opera House's production of Britten's The Turn of the Screw. Another Britten opera, Noye's Fludde was performed later in the Festival as was his Sonata in C which received its first performance here too; other first performances included Tippett's Songs for Achilles and Musgrave's Ballad, Sir Patrick Spens. The BBC Third Programme presented a Thursday Invitation Concert which included work by Haydn, Chávez, Goehr (first performance of Suite Op. 11), Shostakovich and Schumann, and the BBC Transcription Service presented Music in Venice, a series of five programmes devised by Imogen Holst. The Dartington String Quartet gave the first performance of Hans Keller's wordless Functional Analysis No. 11 and there were also performances by Rostropovich and Julian Bream. Britten and Pears performed Schubert's Winterreise together for the first time in public.
Details are provided for the Exhibitions held that year and for the Festival Services.
Printed on the reverse is a map of Aldeburgh with performance venues marked.
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