Programme for the twenty-first Aldeburgh Festival providing details of all the events held throughout the three weeks of the Festival. The names of Festival staff and Festival Council Members can be found inside the front cover. These are followed by a contents page, a number of articles, day by day programmes with full details of all the productions performed, photographs, exhibitions, advertisements, general information, indexes of artists and works, a list of Festival subscribers and programme summary.
Notification that the Twenty-second Aldeburgh Festival will take place from 7-29 June 1969.
Printed by Benham & Company Ltd.
Cover photograph: The Duet by J. M. Whistler.
Printed at the back are the names of the members of the English Chamber Orchestra, the English Opera Group, the Sadler's Wells Opera and the Aldeburgh Festival Singers as well as details of the Festival Services, Bell Ringing and a note conveying the news of the death of Ursula Nettleship. There are details of the Festival Exhibitions and other unofficial exhibitions put on in Aldeburgh and the surrounding area, plus a list of Gardens open to the public and details of an excursion to Lopham and Redgrave Fens. General Information for Visitors, a map of Aldeburgh, Indexes of Artists and Works plus details of future events and Programme Summary may also be found inside the back cover.
Notification that the seventh Bach at Long Melford weekend will take place on 7-8 September 1968.
Programme price: Unspecified.
Advertisements:
Opera Magazine, Benjamin Britten talks - Peter Pears writes - in the Festivals Issue;
Aldeburgh Recorded Music Centre, Records available and recordings of particular interest to Festival-goers;
Gross Cash Registers Ltd, Congratulations to the Aldeburgh Festival on its Twenty-first birthday;
Barwell's of Norwich, Tolly Cobbold-Tolly Good!;
Marks & Spencer, Particular people choose St Michael only at Marks & Spencer;
Sekers, A Permanent Exhibition of Curtain and Upholstery Fabrics;
The Aldeburgh Bookshop, Boosey and Hawkes at Aldeburgh;
Anglia Television, is the East of England;
The Aldeburgh Bookshop, Books on Music;
J & W Chester Ltd, Aldeburgh works: Lennox Berkeley, Gustav Holst, Thea Musgrave and Witold Lutoslawski;
Decca Record Company Ltd, Benjamin Britten composer and performer on Decca-group records;
Faber Books, list of publications on music;
The Aldeburgh Bookshop, Books to be published later that year;
Loeb & Company Ltd, for those wonderful German Wines;
Faber Books, list of publications on music including works by Benjamin Britten;
Ye Olde Curiosity Shope, Aldeburgh;
Adnams, Champion Southwold Ales;
Barclays Bank, As It Happens - the only bank in Aldeburgh;
Trust House Hotels, A Concert at the Swan Hotel, Lavenham: a memorable experience;
Deutsche Grammophon Gessellschaft, Records by Amadeus Quartet, Beethoven and Schubert;
Pergamon Press Ltd, Books on Music and the Arts;
Watneys, Brewers of Glorious Ales and Stouts;
Fisons, best wishes for a successful Festival;
BBC Music Programme/City Music Society, Borodin String Quartet, Shostakovich Complete String Quartets;
The Aldeburgh Bookshop, Stocks of scores and libretti for the musical events of the Festival;
Chapman-Purchas Antiques, Framlingham;
Richard Bradley Atelier, Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Jewellery, Norwich.
Articles:
Commons and Rights of Way by Derek Charman;
John Wesley's Journal, edited by Norman Scarfe;
The Puppet Theatre in England by George Speaight.
Exhibitions:
The Norwich School, in the British Legion Hall, arranged by the Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, admission 2s. 6d.;
Rejoice in the Lamb, paintings by Sidney Nolan, in the Festival Gallery, arranger unspecified, admission 2s. 6d.;
James McNeill Whistler, an exhibition of work, in the Moot Hall, arranger unspecified, admission 2s. 6d.;
20 Aldeburgh Festivals, in the old Railway Station, arranged by Norman Scarfe, admission 1s.
Lectures:
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) given by James Laver in the Jubilee Hall;
Looking for Civilisation given by Sir Kenneth Clark in the Jubilee Hall;
The Maltings Concert Hall given by Derek Sugden in the Aldeburgh Cinema.
Photographs:
Mousehold Heath, Norwich, Etching by John Crome;
The Maltings Concert Hall, 2 Jun 1967, photographed by John Donat;
Benjamin Britten showing Her Majesty The Queen into The Maltings Concert Hall, 2 Jun 1967 (PH/4/429), photographed by Eastern Counties Newspapers Ltd;
Interior Stairwell of The Maltings Concert Hall, 2 Jun 1967, photographed by John Donat (?);
The Prodigal Son, drawing by Rembrandt, Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam;
Dmitri Shostakovich, photographer unspecified;
Self-portrait of Theodor Von Holst at 17, photographer unspecified;
John Wesley by Nathaniel Hone Preaching at 63, photographer unspecified;
Scene from Gloriana, Covent Garden, 1953 (PHPN/7/1/37), photographed by Roger Wood;
Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Snape, 1967, photographer Reg Wilson;
The Storm, Etching by J. M. Whistler, 1861;
The Bear in Petrushka, National Puppet Theatre of Budapest;
Edwardian Aldeburgh, from the family album of Captain Kenneth Basham.
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
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