Programme for the twenty-second Aldeburgh Festival providing details of all the events held throughout the three weeks of the Festival. Inside the front cover is the programme summary and contents page. These are followed by a list of members of the Festival Council, a number of articles including a brief review of the first year of the Maltings Concert Hall and day by day programmes with full details of all the productions performed. A number of photographs are included and are followed by details of the exhibitions held that year, general information for visitors and advertisements.
Notification that the Twenty-third Aldeburgh Festival will take place from 6-28 June 1970. (In the event 5-28 June 1969)
Printed by Benham & Company Ltd.
Cover: Two Foxhounds in a Landscape, engraving by George Stubbs.
Illustrations: Cough Remedies by Robert John Thornton and plants drawn from nature by Henderson and engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick.
Notification that the Maltings Concert Hall was to be presented with a Civic Trust Award for 1968 during the Festival. (In the event it was not presented until the following year).
Printed at the back are the names of the members of the English Opera Group, the English Opera Group Orchestra, the English Opera Group Chorus, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Aldeburgh Festival Singers. There are Indexes of Artists and Works, a list of Festival Subscribers and finally a map of Aldeburgh inside the back cover.
Programme price: Unspecified.
Advertisements:
Boosey & Hawkes, Copies of scores are available at the Aldeburgh Bookshop;
Trust House Hotels, Concerts in East Anglia;
EMI Records, Records by EMI Artists at this year's Festival;
Aldeburgh Music Centre, Opening times and services available including recordings associated with the Festival;
Barrie & Rockliff: The Cresset Press, The Operas of Benjamin Britten by Patricia Howard;
Opera Magazine, Your window on the world of opera;
Pergamon Press Ltd, Leonardo - International Journal of the Contemporary Artist;
Marks & Spencer, St Michael - This is one label a lot of people are happy to wear;
Loeb & Company, for those wonderful German Wines;
Harp Lager, Keg Harp - Unbeatable in any bar;
Gross Cash Registers Ltd, Best wishes for a successful Twenty-second Aldeburgh Festival;
Barclays Bank, poem encouraging banking with Barclays;
The Aldeburgh Bookshop, Benjamin Britten by Percy M. Young and other titles available;
Adnams, Champion Southwold Ales;
Decca Record Company Ltd, Benjamin Britten composer and performer on Decca-group records;
Sekers, A Permanent Exhibition of Curtain and Upholstery Fabrics;
Anglia Television, For great entertainment like this everyday make a knight of it;
Faber Books, list of publications on music including works by Benjamin Britten;
The Aldeburgh Bookshop, scores and libretti of the musical events of the Festival;
Faber Books, list of publications on music;
Barwell's of Norwich, Tolly Cobbold-Tolly Good!;
J & W Chester Limited, Aldeburgh 1969 - Nine works published by J & W Chester are to be performed during the Festival;
Halesworth Gallery, Forthcoming events and exhibitions;
A. T. & F. Chapman-Purchas, Antique Shop;
English Opera Group,Forthcoming Concerts;
Anglian Arts & Antiques, The Third Snape Antiques Fair, The First King's Lynn Antiques Fair.
Articles:
The First Phase, no author given;
Churches in a Landscape, by Norman Scarfe;
Indomeneo, no author given;
Earth, Time and Space - The North by Keith Grant.
Exhibitions:
George Stubbs, in the Festival Gallery, arranged by the Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art;
Mary Potter, Paintings and Watercolours, in the British Legion Hall, arranger unspecified, admission 2s. 6d.;
The English Opera Group, in the old Railway Station, arranged by Cara Lancaster;
Dartington, In Memoriam Dorothy Elmhirst, in the Moot Hall, arranger unspecified;
Paxton Chadwick (1903-1961), in the Moot Hall (ground floor), arranger unspecified;
Keith Grant, Maltings Lawn, Snape, arranger unspecified, (destroyed in the fire).
Lectures:
Laus Amoris: 13 Century given by John Mundy in the Jubilee Hall, (lecture one);
Laus Belli: 15 Century given by John Munday in the Jubilee Hall, (lecture two);
Computers, a lecture with recorded examples, given by John Geddes, Andrew St Johnston, Elizabeth Simmonds and Alan Sutcliffe;
The Conservation of Seals given by The Earl of Cranbrook in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
An early meeting of the English Opera Group, Christmas 1946, photographed by George Rodger;
Village feast at Worlingworth, 1810, by courtesy of Lord Henniker and the rector and churchwardens;
Shingle Street, photographed by Keith Mirams;
Peter Grimes, BBC Television in The Maltings, February 1969 (PHPN/14/14/20), photographed by BBC photograph;
The move for Buster Keaton's Seven Chances, 1968, photographed by Clive Strutt;
The Teenagers and The Over Seventies, photographed by Carl Christian and Clifford Kent;
Luca Pacioli and the rhombicubeoctahedron, photographer unspecified.
1 volume
Bound into a volume which includes the years 1969-1971; 18.5 x 24.5cm with pencil annotations.
Master copy (bound volume)
Archive
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PG-AF-1969
