Leaflet providing the programme of performances for the twenty-second Festival. It opened with a concert of chamber music followed by the first performances by the English Opera Group of two one-act operas by Gordon Crosse, Purgatory and The Grace of Todd. The English Opera Group also performed a new production of Mozart's Idomeneo and Britten's The Prodigal Son. In addition Britten's Suite received its first performance during the Artist's Choice: Osian Ellis concert and his Children's Crusade also had its first concert performance. The other first performance during the Festival was for Knussen's Fire. Britten conducted the production of Idomeneo as well as recitals of Bach's Brandenburgs and Cantata (no. 35), and Purcell's The Fairy Queen. He also performed alongside Pears on a Song Recital. The performance by the Cambridge University Musical Society included a rendition of Britten's, The Building of the House and the Wandsworth School Choir performed The Golden Vanity.
Other concerts were given over to Composer's Choice, the music for which was chosen by William Walton, Publisher's Choice (J & W Chester Ltd) and Musical Families: Gibbons and Mundy. Julian Bream gave a recital of guitar music and there were additional performances by the Northern Sinfonia Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra and the New Philarmonia Orchestra.
The BBC Transcription Service presented five half-hour programmes on French Music of the fifteenth to twentieth centuries and there was also a special concert devised by Geoffrey Coleby which celebrated the lives of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Other events included a beachcomb and a church crawl, a programme of outdoor entertainment (High Box display and Hot air balloon demonstration), concerts celebrating the work of composers such as Bach, Haydn, Elgar, Monteverdi and Purcell, a performance of mime by Adam Darius and showings in the Aldeburgh Cinema of films by Charlie Chaplin in celebration of his eightieth birthday.
Details are provided for the Box office, Bus Services, Festival Club, Exhibitions and for the Festival Services.
Printed inside are the seating plans for the various venues and on the reverse, a miniature map of Aldeburgh with performance venues marked.
Booking form and subscription slip for monthly mailing list attached.
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