15-27 Jun 1965
Leaflet giving the programme of performances for the eighteenth Festival which opened with the English Opera Group's new production of Britten's Let's Make an Opera.
The Kodály Choir of Budapest gave the first performance of Britten's Gemini Variations and Fugue on a theme of Kodály and Britten also contributed a New Work for Voice and Piano [Songs and Proverbs of William Blake] and a Suite for Cello which had its first performance on the last night of the Festival. His Cantata Misericordium was also performed as was his church parable, Curlew River. Other first performances at the Festival were Berkeley's Songs with Guitar and Lutoslawski's Paroles Tissées for tenor and orchestra.
In addition a tribute concert celebrated the life and work of Zoltán Kodály and was performed in his presence. There was a series of five programmes devised by Imogen Holst on English Church Music of the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, each included the performance of a new work and was presented and commissioned by the BBC Transcription Service.
Other events included two programmes of the early films of Charlie Chaplin and a performance of Not in Front of the Waiter, a pastiche on the operas of Offenbach.
Details are provided for the Exhibitions held that year and for the Festival Services.
Notification is given of the dates for the Bach week-end at Long Melford.
Printed on the reverse is a map of Aldeburgh with performance venues marked.
Booking form attached.
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