Programme for the fifteenth Aldeburgh Festival providing details of all the events held throughout the Festival. A summary content list is provided together with a full 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 throughout.
Notification that the Sixteenth Aldeburgh Festival will take place from 20-30 June 1963.
Designed and printed by Benham & Company Ltd.
Line drawings and cover design by Mary Potter.
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, the Aldeburgh Festival Choir, the Ipswich Co-Operative Girls' Choir and the London Boy Singers. Other administrative information included details of the gift from the Elmgrant Trust of some new raised platforms, the Festival Club and general local information for visitors.
Programme Price: Unspecified
Advertisements:
ICI, Wherever you look;
COLT Cedar Houses;
Boosey & Hawkes, Latest works of Benjamin Britten;
Barclays Bank, As It Happens - the only bank in Aldeburgh;
Anglia Television, East Anglia's Independent Television;
Faber Books, Faber Books on Music;
Associated British Picture Corporation, we'll strive to please you every day;
Decca Record Company Ltd, Noye's Fludde recorded at the Aldeburgh Festival 1961;
Miller's, Exhibition Aldeburgh British Legion Hall;
Walberswick Galleries, Contemporary Art Galleries;
Aldringham Craft Market, Exhibition of work by members of the Craftsmen Potters' Association;
Associated-Rediffusion, Recognition;
Sekers, furnishing and dress fabrics;
Tolly and Cobbold, Ales;
Marks & Spencer, Hallmark of Quality;
Columbia Records, Peter Pears in St. Matthew Passion;
Fisons, Sound a Fanfare for Fisons;
Adnams, Champion Southwold Ales;
Schweppes, Schweppervescence Lasts the Whole Drink Through;
Gross Cash Registers Ltd, Concerto Grosso;
Watneys, Trust Watneys Draught Red Barrel.
Articles:
The Flemish Legacy in East Anglia by R. W Ketton-Cremer;
Boy's Voices by George Malcolm;
Victorian Aldeburgh by Norman Scarfe.
Exhibitions:
Victorian Paintings, in the Festival Gallery, an Arts Council Exhibition arranged by Graham Reynolds;
Henry Moore, in the Moot Hall, an Arts Council Exhibition, arranger unspecified;
Collages and Constructions, in the Church Hall, arranger unspecified;
Unspecified subject, in the British Legion Hall, arranged by Millers of Cambridge.
Lectures:
Our Forgotten Allies in Europe given by Sue Ryder in the Baptist Chapel;
Delegated Art given by John Piper in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
On Crag Path: The Fortune-Teller, Hauling up the Lifeboat, Donkey Ride, Suffolk Photo Survey;
Mstislav Rostropovich, photographed by HRH The Prince of Hesse and the Rhine;
Festival Post-Mortem, 10 July 1961, photographed by HRH The Prince of Hesse and the Rhine;
A Study in Headwear, photographed by Roger Mayne;
Three Inhabitants of the Ark, photographed by Walter Rawlings;
Seventeenth Century Organ at Framlingham Church, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
Sole Bay Inn, Southwold, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
A Well at Coddenham, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
George Malcolm at Work on a Goff, photographed by Walter Rawlings;
The Concert by James Tissot, City Art Gallery, Manchester.
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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