Programme for the twentieth Aldeburgh Festival providing details of all the events held throughout the Festival. Details of the direction and administration of the Festival, contents page and a day by day programme list are followed by full details of all the productions performed beginning with the inaugural concert marking the opening of The Maltings Concert Hall at Snape.
Notification that the Twenty-first Aldeburgh Festival will take place from 8-30 June 1968.
Printed by Benham & Company Ltd.
Cover photographs by Brian Cook.
Illustrated throughout with architect's drawings of The Maltings before and after conversion.
Printed at the back are the names of the members of the English Chamber Orchestra, the Purcell Singers, the Aldeburgh Festival Singers and the English Opera Group as well as details of all the exhibitions put on during the Festival. A map of Aldeburgh is followed by General Information for Visitors plus a number of photographs, and articles. For the first time a Music Index is provided and details of the Festival Subscribers are given at the back along with a number of advertisements.
Notification that the sixth Bach at Long Melford weekend will take place on 2-3 September 1967.
Programme price: Unspecified.
Advertisements:
Thomas Rochford & Sons Ltd, supply of plants which decorate The Maltings and Festival Club;
Snape Antiques Fair, at Aldeburgh Festival's New Concert Hall;
Loeb & Company Ltd, for those wonderful German Wines;
Other Exhibitions and Places to Visit;
Barwell's of Norwich, Tolly Cobbold-Tolly Good!;
Marks & Spencer, Each week over Ten Million people buy St Michael clothes and food at;
Faber Books, list of publications of Britten's music including The Burning Fiery Furnace and books on music;
Courage, wish the Festival every success;
Anglia Television, for and from the East of England;
Gross Cash Registers Ltd, Congratulations on achieving the Twentieth Aldeburgh Festival;
Decca Record Company Ltd, Benjamin Britten superbly represented on Decca-group records;
Aldeburgh Recorded Music Centre, Invitation to visit;
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, New 4th Edition;
Sekers, A Permanent Exhibition of Curtain and Upholstery Fabrics;
Boosey & Hawkes, Publishers of Full Scores by Benjamin Britten's;
The Aldeburgh Bookshop, Books on Music;
Quatercentenary Performance Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers, at Ely Cathedral, 30 September 1967;
Watneys, Brewers of Glorious Ales and Stouts;
The Tower (Restaurant), English and Continental Cuisine;
Pritchard & Burton Limited, Calypso tipped cigarettes - What's the difference?;
Deutsche Grammophon (Great Britain) Ltd, Records by Svjatoslav Richter and Amadeus Quartet;
Fisons, best wishes for a successful Festival;
Norris, Warmed-Air Ventilation Services in The Maltings Concert Hall;
Trust House Hotels, Not to be missed: The new season of concerts at the Swan Hotel, Lavenham;
Adnams, Champion Southwold Ales;
Barclays Bank, As It Happens - the only bank in Aldeburgh.
Articles:
A Prospect of London: 1750 by Edward Croft-Murray;
Music in the Family by Hans Keller;
Russian New Year, Extracts from a diary, Winter 1966-1967 by Peter Pears;
The Maltings by Derek Sugden.
Exhibitions:
Ceri Richards, recent paintings, collages and drawings, in the British Legion Hall, arranged in association with the Marlborough Gallery, London;
Marcellus Laroon (1679-1772), in the Festival Gallery, arranged in association with the Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art;
Uli Nimptsch, an exhibition of sculpture, in the Moot Hall, arranger unspecified.
Lectures:
The Red Herring Praised and the Fleet Visited given by Angus Wilson in the Jubilee Hall;
Anglo-Saxon Ship-burials given by Rupert Bruce-Mitford in the Jubilee Hall;
The Origins of Polyphony given by A. L. Lloyd in the Jubilee Hall.
Pictorial Record:
Russia Today by Burt Glinn, Introduced by Laurens Van Der Post in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
Nina and Slava Richter, photographed by Maurice Hogenboom;
Scene from The Burning Fiery Furnace 1966 (PHPN/4/1/5), photographed by Dominic;
Tytania and the Fairies at an early rehearsal from the first production of A Midsummer Night's Dream 1960, photographed by Kestone Press Agency;
Bottom and Quince in the dressing-room from the first production of A Midsummer Night's Dream 1960, photographed by Sandra Lousada;
Gathering on the Crag Path (?), photographer unspecified;
Woman sitting on the beach, photographed by Roger Mayne;
Boating on the Meare, 1950, Central Office of Information;
Collecting Butley Oysters, photographed by The Times;
Recording Saint Nicolas, 1955, photographed by Kurt Hutten;
James Blades and Imogen Holst, photographer unspecified;
The first cast of Let's Make an Opera!, 1949, photographer unspecified;
Musical Conversation by Marcellus Laroon, photographer unspecified;
Clair de Lune by Ceri Richards; photographer unspecified;
Seated figure by Uli Nimptsch, photographer unspecified;
Benjamin Britten greeting Zoltan Kodály (PH/5/249), photographed by Brian Deed;
Section of Aldeburgh Railway Track and Beware of Trains sign, photographer unspecified;
Festival Office Exterior, photographed by HRH The Prince of Hesse and the Rhine.
1 volume
Bound into a volume which includes the years 1966-1968; 18.5 x 24.5cm with pencil annotations.
Master copy (bound volume)
Archive
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PG-AF-1967
