Programme for the eighteenth Aldeburgh Festival providing details of all the events held throughout the Festival. A contents page and a day by day programme list are followed by 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 Nineteenth Aldeburgh Festival will take place from 8-19 June 1966 (In the event 8-21 June).
Printed by Benham & Company Ltd.
Cover design by Jeffrey Camp; 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 Opera Group, English Chamber Orchestra, the Purcell Singers, the Purcell Consort of Voices, the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble and the Aldeburgh Festival Singers, plus a list of Festival Subscribers.
Programme price: Unspecified.
Advertisements:
Other Exhibitions, Aldringham Craft Market, British Studio Pottery; Miller's of Cambridge, everything musical; Walberswick Galleries, Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture; 141 High Street (Aldeburgh), Ethel Keane recent paintings and drawings; Wentworth Hotel, Old Master Drawings and Paintings; Gallery Thirteen, Alan Reynolds, Recent Paintings;
Faber Books, list of publications on music;
Sekers, invitation to visit their new furnishing fabric showrooms;
Peter Stuyvesant Cigarettes, International Passport to Smoking Pleasure;
Barwell's of Norwich, Tolly Cobbold-Tolly Good!;
COLT Cedar Houses, You'll Never be Tired of a Colt House;
Boosey & Hawkes, Henry Purcell sheet music for sale;
Associated British Picture Corporation, wishes of success to the Aldeburgh Festival;
ICI, Theme and Variations;
Anglia Television, Anglia - independent television for independent people;
Marks & Spencer, for St Michael - Over 99% of St Michael goods are British made;
Decca Record Company Ltd, Festival Artists on Record;
EMI, records by Artists on His Master's Voice Long play Records;
Trust House Hotels, This year you deserve two holidays;
Adnams, Champion Southwold Ales;
Watneys, Trust Watneys Keg Red Barrel;
Commonwealth Arts Festival,16 Sep - 2 Oct 1965;
Fisons, Fisons Evergreen 80;
Barclays Bank, As It Happens - the only bank in Aldeburgh;
Deutsche Grammophon (Great Britain) Ltd, Records by Svjatoslav Richter and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau;
Gross Cash Registers Ltd, best wishes for a successful Festival.
Articles:
The Madrigal: four hundred years on by Peter Pears;
Zoltán Kodály by Béla Bartók;
The Boy Martyrs of East Anglia by M. D. Anderson;
A Second Renaissance for English Music? by Donald Mitchell.
Exhibitions:
Francis Wheatley, in the Festival Gallery, arranged by Mary Webster;
Christian Rohlfs, in the British Legion Hall, arranged by Paul Vogt;
The Changing Face of Aldeburgh, in the Moot Hall, arranged by Aldeburgh Borough Council, the East Suffolk Records Office, the Ipswich Borough Library and Christchurch Mansion Museum;
Modern Architecture in Suffolk, in the Moot Hall, arranger unspecified.
Lectures:
English Painting 1700-1850 given by Basil Taylor in the Jubilee Hall;
Aubrey Beardsley given by Sir Kenneth Clark in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
Zoltán Kodály, photographed by Eric Auerbach;
The Toilette of Salome by Aubrey Beardsley, photograph from the British Museum;
Scenes from 1964 production of English Eccentrics, photographed by Reg Wilson;
The Martyrdom of St. William, Holy Trinity Church, Loddon, photographed by Hallam Ashley;
The Madwoman (Peter Pears) kneeling and the Spirit of the Boy (John Newton) - scene from 1964 production of Curlew River (PHPN/5/1/15), photographed by Reg Wilson;
The sea at Slaughden, c. 1906, photographer unspecified;
Plan for The Terrace Aldeburgh, 1849, photographer unspecified;
Roller-skating in the Jubilee Hall, 1908, photographer unspecified;
The fire at North Warren, photographed by Clive Strutt.
Plate:
Page of an Elizabethan madrigal from Dowland's First Booke of Songes or Ayres, 1597 edition, from Musica Britannica, The Royal Musical Association.
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-1965
