Programme for the sixteenth Aldeburgh Festival providing details of all the events held throughout the Festival. A day by day contents 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 Seventeenth Aldeburgh Festival will take place from 11-21 June 1964, (in the event 10-21 June).
Notification of the illness of Mstislav Rostropovich and of his replacement for the concerts on 24 and 26 June, Maurice Gendron.
Designed and printed by Benham & Company Ltd.
Cover design by John Piper.
This year there was a change of format with most of the administrative information - information on the Council of the Aldeburgh Festival, the Festival Club and General Information for Visitors - appearing at the front of the programme book and the articles, photographs and advertisements appearing at the back.
Also included at the front are two maps; one of Aldeburgh town marked with the Festival locations and a second of the county of Suffolk.
Printed towards the back are the members of the English Chamber Orchestra, the Purcell Singers, the Bergmann Recorder Consort and the Aldeburgh Festival Choir, plus lists of Covenanted Subscribers and Contributors to the Festival Improvement Fund.
Programme price: £3.
Advertisements:
ICI, Dramatic Machinery;
Other Exhibitions, Six Sixty Three exhibition of photographs; Miller's for Music; Aldringham Craft Market Art in Ceramics; Walberswick Galleries Ever-changing Exhibition;
Boosey & Hawkes, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem;
COLT Cedar Houses;
Associated-Rediffusion, gives london the best of all Television;
Faber Books, list of publications on music;
Associated British Picture Corporation, wishes of success to the Aldeburgh Festival;
Tolly and Cobbold, Tolly Good! (Ales);
Decca Record Company Ltd, Britten's War Requiem;
Barclays Bank, As It Happens - the only bank in Aldeburgh;
Sekers, furnishing and dress fabrics;
Marks & Spencer, Hallmark of Quality;
Anglia Television, East Anglia's Independent Television;
EMI, records by Yehudi Menuhin on His Master's Voice Long play Records;
Adnams, Champion Southwold Ales;
Gross Cash Registers Ltd, best wishes for a successful Festival;
Schweppes, Schweppervescence Lasts the Whole Drink Through;
Watneys, Trust Watneys Keg Red Barrel;
Fisons, Sound a Fanfare for Fisons;
Lacons, Yarmouth Beers available in the Festival Club bar.
Articles:
John Dowland by Diana Poulton;
The Hesse Students by Artur Harrison;
Yachting Occasions by Frank Hussey.
Exhibitions:
The Christchurch Mansion Collection, in the Festival Gallery, arranger unspecified;
Modern Jewellery, in the Moot Hall, arranged by Graham Hughes for the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths;
Contemporary Spanish Painting, in the Church Hall, arranged by David Carr.
Lectures:
The Liberation of Colour given by Sir Kenneth Clark in the Jubilee Hall;
The Folk Music Virtuoso given by A. L. Lloyd in the Baptist Chapel.
Photographs:
Bygone Slaughden, photographed by Suffolk Photo Society;
The Opening of the Festival Gallery and Club by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh (PH/4/570), photographed by East Anglian Daily Times;
Before the Opening of the Cermony, photographed by East Anglian Daily Times;
Sorting the Catch, Aldeburgh, photographed by Roger Mayne;
In Red Square, Moscow: Peter Pears, Galina Vishnevskaya, Mstislav Rostropovich, Benjamin Britten and the Countess of Harewood (PH/5/201), photographer unspecified;
Presentation of the Freedom of the Borough of Aldeburgh (PH/4/284), photographed by B. W. Allen;
Beth Reiss and the Countess of Cranbrook, photographer unspecified;
Imogen Holst and Stephen Reiss, photographer unspecified;
Portrait of John Bull, by courtesy of University Music School, Oxford;
The Artist and his Patron, by Pieter Bruege, photograph from Albertina, Vienna;
The Milkmaid, by Thomas Gainsborough, photograph from Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich;
The River Deben, by Thomas Churchyard, photograph from Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich;
Golding Constable's Kitchen Garden, by John Constable, photograph from Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich.
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
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PG-AF-1963
