Programme for the nineteenth Aldeburgh Festival providing details of all the events held throughout the Festival. A contents page, a day by day programme list and a list of names relating to the direction and administration of the Festival are followed by full details of all the productions performed.
Notification that the Twentieth Aldeburgh Festival will take place from 3-25 June 1967 (In the event 2-25 June).
Printed by Benham & Company Ltd.
Cover design and text decorations adapted from engravings by Charles Brooking.
Printed at the back are the names of the members of the English Chamber Orchestra, the Purcell Singers, the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival Singers as well as details of all the exhibitions put on during the Festival. A map of Aldeburgh is followed by a number of photographs, and articles. General Information for Visitors and details of the Festival Subscribers are given at the back along with a number of advertisements.
Programme price: Unspecified.
Advertisements:
Other Exhibitions, additional to the official Festival exhibitions including a series of paintings inspired by Crabbe's Peter Grimes by Guy Nicholls;
Barclays Bank, As It Happens - the only bank in Aldeburgh;
Faber Books, list of publications on Britten's music including Imogen Holst's book on Britten;
Sekers, invitation to visit their new furnishing fabric showrooms;
COLT Cedar Houses, People who live in a Colt House;
EMI, Unique records of interest;
Aldeburgh Recorded Music Centre, Now established in the Heart of Aldeburgh;
Marks & Spencer, Each week over Ten Million people buy St Michael clothes and food at;
Boosey & Hawkes, Publishers of Benjamin Britten's Three Canticles;
Barwell's of Norwich, Tolly Cobbold-Tolly Good!;
ICI, At our finger-tips - all the skills and sciences for a virtuoso performance;
Trust House Hotels, This year you deserve two holidays;
Watneys, Trust Watneys Keg Red Barrel;
Peter Stuyvesant Cigarettes, International Passport to Smoking Pleasure;
Pritchard & Burton Limited, Calypso tipped cigarettes - What's the difference?;
Gross Cash Registers Ltd, best wishes for a successful Festival;
Decca Record Company Ltd, Benjamin Britten superbly represented on Decca-group records;
Anglia Television, Anglia - independent television for independent people;
Adnams, Champion Southwold Ales;
Pergamon Press, Pergamon Publications;
Fisons, best wishes for a successful Festival;
Festival of the City of London, 11-23 July Britten Operas at Southwark Cathedral.
Articles:
A Tribute to Edith Sitwell by Sir Kenneth Clark;
Snape and the Malthouse by George Ewart Evans;
Haydn's The Creation by H. C. Robbins Landon;
Armenian Holiday, Extracts from a diary, August 1965 by Peter Pears.
Exhibitions:
John Piper, Paintings, drawings and photographs of Suffolk, in the British Legion Hall, arranger unspecified;
Charles Brooking 1723?-1759, in the Festival Gallery, arranged in association with the Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art;
Robert Bloomfield 1766-1823, in the Moot Hall, arranger unspecified;
The Malt House, Snape, model of the proposed Opera House/Concert Hall, in the Moot Hall.
Lectures:
What is Musical History? given by Imogen Holst in the Jubilee Hall;
How we Speak given by Sir Lawrence Bragg in the Jubilee Hall.
Lecture/Recital:
The Orchestral Kitchen given by James Blades and Joan Goossens in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
Portrait of Percy Aldridge Grainger, inscribed in his hand to Peter Pears with thanks for the lovely singing on 5 Nov 1936, photographer unspecified;
The Burning Fiery Furnace by Gislebertus, twelfth-century sculptor of Autun, photographer unspecified;
Britten, Pears and Rostropovich at Dilidjan, August 1965, photographer unspecified;
Snape Malt House - Past and Future (four photographs), photographed by Clive Strutt and Arup Associates;
Kessingland, Pettistree and Corton, 1966, by John Piper, photographer unspecified;
A Dutch coast scene with a watch-tower, by Charles Brooking, photographer unspecified;
Dame Edith Sitwell with Malcolm Williamson, July 1964, photographed by Erich Auerbach.
1 volume
Bound into a volume which includes the years 1966-1968; 18.5 x 24.5cm with pencil annotations.
Pages 57-58 torn out from programme book, (photographs of Percy Grainger and The Burning Fiery Furnace by Giselbertus).
Master copy (bound volume)
Archive
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PG-AF-1966
