Programme for the twenty-third Aldeburgh Festival providing details of all the events held throughout the Festival. Inside the front cover is the programme summary and contents page. These are followed by a brief description of the present phase of the development of The Maltings, a number of articles including one on the future of the Maltings Marsh by Reggie Grenfell and day by day programmes with full details of productions and events. A number of photographs are included as are details of the exhibitions held that year (along with maps of their locations), and numerous advertisements.
Notification that the Twenty-fourth Aldeburgh Festival will take place from 5-27 June 1971. (In the event 4-27 June 1971)
Designed and Printed by Benham & Company Ltd.
Cover by John Piper.
Illustrations: Woodcuts by William Blake from Thornton's Virgil, 1821.
Presentation of one of the Civic Trust Awards at 7.00pm on 10 June, (was to have taken place last year but postponed due to Maltings fire).
At the back there is an advertisement for the first Opera at The Maltings (29 Aug -5 Sep) and printed details of the members of the English Opera Group, the English Opera Group Chorus, the English Opera Group Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Aldeburgh Festival Singers. Details are given of the Aldeburgh Festival Administration and there are Indexes of Artists and Music, General Information for Visitors and finally a list of Acknowledgments inside the back cover.
Programme price: Unspecified.
Advertisements:
Aldringham Craft Market, Special Exhibition;
Halesworth Gallery, Elisabeth Frink and Felix Topolski exhibitions;
Fisk's Clematis Nursery, Clematis growers;
Somerville Galleries, Antiques and Works of Art;
Yoxford Gallery, Romyn exhibition;
Loeb & Company, for those wonderful German Wines;
Anglia Television, With best wishes from;
J & W Chester Limited, Aldeburgh Firsts material and catalogues;
Ernst Eulenburg Ltd, Eulenburg Miniature Scores, new catalogue;
Oxford University Press, Publications by Imogen Holst;
The Aldeburgh Bookshop, Stock of scores and libretti for the Festival musical events;
Faber & Faber, Books on music and Music published by them;
RCA, Julian Bream recordings;
EMI Records, Records by this year's Festival artists produced by EMI and available through the Aldeburgh Music Centre;
Schott, Music of Hans Werner Henze and Priaulx Rainier published by them;
Jersey Artists Limited, Books available for purchase;
Novello, Arthur Bliss Concertino for cello and orchestra available on hire;
Boosey and Hawkes, At Aldeburgh - copies of scores available;
Norwich Union, For all insurances;
The Aldeburgh Bookshop, Benjamin Britten by Percy M Young;
B & A Stephenson Jewellers, Piaget;
Gross Cash Registers Ltd, Best wishes for a successful twenty-third Festival;
Barclays Bank, Nice music. Nice Barclays. Money is our business;
Tolly Ales, Serious Beer Men Know Tolly is Different;
Marks & Spencer, Read any good labels lately?;
Decca Record Company Ltd, Benjamin Britten composer and performer on Decca-group records;
The Aldeburgh Music Centre, A Warm Welcome to Festival visitors;
Harp, Keg Harp - The coolest harp at the Festival;
Adnams, Champion Southwold Ales;
Anglian Arts & Antiques, Fourth Snape Antiques Fair;
Aldeburgh Festival Gallery, Art Guide Exhibition;
The Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Festival of music and the arts, 14-24 October 1970;
Trust House Hotels, Concerts in East Anglia - Musical weekends at the Brudenell, Aldeburgh and the Swan, Lavenham;
Borough Office Bury St Edmunds, Production of Edmund of Anglia by Olga Ironside Wood;
English Chamber Orchestra and Music Society, Present the Aldeburgh version of Purcell's The Fairy Queen;
Borough Office Bury St Edmunds, St. Edmund Year Festival;
Seymour International Subscriptions, Opera magazine - Your window on the world of opera.
Articles:
The Present Phase, no author given;
The Future of the Maltings Marsh, by Reggie Grenfell;
Shostakovich and his Symphonies, by Donald Mitchell;
Audiences, by Imogen Holst.
Exhibitions:
Embroidery 1970, in the Moot Hall, arranged by the Suffolk and North Essex Branch of the Embroiderers' Guild;
Lowes Dalbiac Luard (1872-1944), in the Festival Gallery, arranged by the Nicholas Lyell;
The Illuminated Books of William Blake, in the British Legion Hall, arranged by the William Blake Trust.
Lectures:
Blake and Visionary Art given by Sir Kenneth Clark in the Jubilee Hall;
Cuba Today given by J. M. Cohen in the Jubilee Hall;
Music as Message given by Asa Briggs in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
Blythburgh Church, the sanctuary of the 1969 Festival, photographed by John Piper;
Idomeneo rehearsal break at Blythburgh, 1969, photograph from The Times;
Roof construction at The Maltings, November 1969, photographed by Rosamund Strode;
Head and shoulders portrait of Hans Werner Henze, photographer unspecified;
Head and shoulders portrait of Esteban Montejo (El Cimarrón), photograph from The Bodley Head;
A detail of Southwold screen - the Nine Orders of Angels, photographed by Edwin Smith;
Scene from the production of Idomeneo 1969, photograph from BBC Photo;
Scene from the production of The Golden Vanity 1969 (Wandsworth School Choir), photograph from London Weekend;
Two photographs of The new menace, photographed by Clive Strutt;
Cecil Aronowitz in discussion with Benjamin Britten (PH/7/67), photographed by Richard Adeney.
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-1970
