Programme for the seventeenth Aldeburgh Festival providing details of all the events held throughout the Festival. A day by day contents list, (including lectures) is provided followed by a list of exhibitions and full details of all the productions performed over the course of the Festival. At the back there are a number of photographs, articles and advertisements.
Notification that the Eighteenth Aldeburgh Festival will take place from 17-27 June 1965. (In the event 15-27 June).
Designed and printed by Benham & Company Ltd.
Cover design by Sidney Nolan; Scraper-board decorations by Meg Stevens.
General Information for Visitors, map of Aldeburgh, and details of the Council of the Aldeburgh Festival are printed toward the back along with the names of the members of the English Chamber Orchestra, the Purcell Singers, the Aldeburgh Festival Singers, the London Boy Singers and the Melos Ensemble, plus lists of Covenanted Subscribers and Contributors to the Festival Improvement Fund.
Programme price: Unspecified.
Advertisements:
Anglia Television, Anglia - independent television for independent people;
ICI, Take a bow;
Barwell's of Norwich, Tolly Cobbold-Tolly Good!;
Other Exhibitions, Thirteen (Aldeburgh); Aldringham Craft Market Pottery Figures; Miller's of Cambridge, everything musical; King's Legend (Aldeburgh) Patterns of Movement; Walberswick Galleries;
Sekers, furnishing and dress fabrics;
COLT Cedar Houses;
Rediffusion London, Are you interested in good television?;
Barclays Bank, As It Happens - the only bank in Aldeburgh;
Marks & Spencer, Brand Name is the Hallmark of Quality;
Boosey & Hawkes, Benjamin Britten Recently Published Works;
Decca Record Company Ltd, Britten's War Requiem;
Bury St. Edmunds Cathedral, Performances of Murder in the Cathedral and Noye's Fludde, plus Flower Festival;
Associated British Picture Corporation, wishes of success to the Aldeburgh Festival;
Faber Books, list of publications on music;
Schweppes, Schweppervescence Lasts the Whole Drink Through;
Gross Cash Registers Ltd, best wishes for a successful Festival;
Adnams, Champion Southwold Ales;
Dennis Dobson (Publishers), Wishes of Success for the opera, The English Eccentrics;
Fisons, Sound a Fanfare for Fisons;
Watneys, Trust Watneys Keg Red Barrel;
Lanson, Champagne Black Label;
Trust House Hotels, This year you deserve two holidays;
Chappell & Co Ltd, Travel Diaries by Malcolm Williamson.
Articles:
The Last Train by William Plomer;
Monumental Brasses by Joan Walls;
The Music that Bach was brought up on by Imogen Holst.
Exhibitions:
Sidney Nolan, a series of studies, in the Festival Gallery, arranger unspecified;
English Drawings and Watercolours 1700-1850, in the British Legion Hall, arranger unspecified;
Sculpture by Georg Ehrlich, in the garden of Red House, an Arts Council Exhibition arranged by Colin Anson;
Brass Rubbings, in the Moot Hall, arranger unspecified.
Lectures:
John Clare, The Peasant Poet given by Edmund Blunden in the Jubilee Hall;
English Medieval Life and the Crusades given by Sir Steven Runciman in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
Scenes from The Beggar's Opera and a break during the dress rehearsal in 1963, photographed by Dominic;
Cathedral Church of Holy and Undivided Trinity, Ely, photographed by Albert W. Kerr;
Wilfred Owen, photograph by courtesy of Harold Owen;
Fishing at Sizewell 1963, photographed by Strutt;
Fishing Boats at Slaughden, photographed by Strutt;
Sir William de Burgate and his wife Elenora, 1409, brass rubbing by Joan Walls and Irene Cowan, photographer unspecified;
John Clare by William Hilton, National Portrait Gallery;
St. Michael's Church, Lüneburg, 1703, photographed by Pressefoto Makovec;
Aldeburgh 1832 by Henry Bright, in possession of James Archibald;
The last steam train on the Aldeburgh branch line, 1956, photographed by Dr. Ian C. Allen.
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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