Programme for the twenty-fifth Aldeburgh Festival providing details of all the events held throughout the Festival. The contents page and details of the Festival Administration are followed by a brief note of acknowledgement from the Artistic Directors and the Management Committee to all those who have helped with the Festival over the past twenty-five years. Also included are a number of articles, the programme summary, full details of all the productions, lectures, exhibitions and other events, a number of photographs and a great many advertisements.
Provisional dates for the Twenty-sixth Aldeburgh Festival: 16 June-3 July 1973. (In the event 15 June-2 July 1973).
Designed and Printed by Benham & Company Ltd.
Cover: Queen Victoria (1893), a woodcut by William Nicholson.
Illustrations: William Nicholson's drawings of 'blokes'.
There are details of the Festival Services and a short note on the death of the Dutch musician, Bertus van Lier by Peter Pears.
Also listed at the back are the names of the performers and staff of the English Chamber Orchestra, The English Opera Group, The English Opera Group Orchestra and The Aldeburgh Festival Singers. Two indexes of Artists' names and Music performed during the Festival are followed by details of Fund-Raising for the Aldeburgh Festival, General Information for Visitors and a map of Aldeburgh with significant locations marked. At the back are details of the operas and other events performed throughout July, August and September during the festival, Summer at The Maltings.
Programme price: Unspecified.
Advertisements:
De Groot Collis, Surveyors & Valuers, Auctioneers & Estate Agents;
Gross Cash Registers Ltd, Best wishes for a successful Twenty-fifth Aldeburgh Festival;
Joanna Pilkington, Exhibition of Paintings at the Corner Shop;
Crafts Advisory Council, East Anglian Craftsmen Exhibition;
Guy Nicholls Exhibition, Mill House Middleton;
Old Railway Station Aldeburgh, Exhibitions of work by Judith Collins and Caroline McAdam Clarke;
Yoxford Gallery, Exhibitions of work by M. J. Holdsworth and Vernon Tong;
Old Slaughter House Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by Burfoot and Armour-Chelu;
East Anglian Watercolours and Oil Paintings by Connie Winn, Opposite Aldeburgh Parish Church;
Ellingham Mill, Second exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture;
Anglian Arts & Antiques, Sixth Snape Antiques Fair;
Cambridge Music Shop, The only independent music shop...;
Aldringham Craft Market, Exhibition of Embroidery Collages by Joan Charlton;
Somerville Galleries, Antiques and Works of Art: An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Peggy Somerville;
The Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools, IAPS Schools concert in The Maltings on 22 July 1972;
O. W. Loeb & Company Ltd, For those wonderful German Wines;
Trust House Forte, Music at Leisure - Concerts in Trust House Forte Hotels from June 1972 until March 1973;
Faber & Faber, Faber books on music and Music published by them;
J & W Chester Limited, WH (Wilhelm Hansen) at Aldeburgh - works available;
Oxford University Press, Façade an entertainment by William Walton - limited edition publication;
Boosey and Hawkes, Available publications of study scores of operas by Benjamin Britten;
The Aldeburgh Bookshop Ltd, Available scores and libretti for the musical events of the Festival;
The Rank Organisation, Blow out the Trumpet, Blow...Aldeburgh Festival is Twenty-five years old;
Harp Lager, Keg Harp - Harp-the perfect accompaniment;
Brandts Limited, The Merchant Bankers;
Southwell's, Speciality Products of the Highest Quality;
Fisk's Clematis Nursery, Clematis the Queen of Climbers;
124 Upton Lane, Three Guides to East Anglia;
Carlsberg Lager, For Perfectionists;
Aldeburgh Music Centre, Opening times throughout the Festival;
Richard Kihl, Wine Shipper and Broker;
Eugen Oertle Ltd, With Compliments;
Anglia Television, Anglia Television is the East of England;
Decca Record Company Limited, Aldeburgh Festival Artists on Decca Group Records;
Lloyds Bank, You don't have to be a big name to sign on with Lloyds Bank;
Sainsbury's Supermarket, Good Food Costs Less At;
Marks & Spencer, St Michael by Marks & Spencer: encore...encore;
Tolly (Cobbold) Brewers, Serious beer men know Tolly is different;
Eastern Daily Press/Eastern Daily Times, Best of Local Life - Your Complete Newspapers;
Nicholls & Wileman Limited, Elle high fashion hosiery;
Grandees Cigars, There's a good day's smoking in five Grandees;
CBS Records, Available and forthcoming John Williams recordings;
Barclays Bank, Banking means Barclays;
Notcutts Nurseries, Notcutts are East Anglia's leading nurserymen...;
Flick & Son Chartered Surveyors, Aldeburgh Property Auction;
Stephensons Jewellers, Stephensons and Gilian Packard in Concert;
Guinness, Give him a Guinness!;
Arnott & Calver, Auctioneers, Estate Agents, Surveyors and Valuers;
Adnams, Champion Southwold Ales;
Jersey Artists Ltd, Books available through Aldeburgh Bookshop;
Percy Wigg Ltd, Removals Company;
O & C Butcher Ltd of Aldeburgh, Mens and Ladies Wear, Wishes of success to the Aldeburgh Festival in its twenty-fifth year;
Carrington Viyella Limited, With the compliments of;
Fisons, For 25 years of beautiful music, Thanks a Million Benjamin;
EMI Records, HMV for the World's Great Artists at the Aldeburgh Festival;
Abbey Life Assurance Company Limited, Growth with Maximum Security;
National Coal Board, Howzat! Coal makes solid sense for heating;
Antony Gibbs (Personal Financial & Life Assurance Planning) Ltd, With the Compliments of;
Central and District Properties Ltd, On a theme of property development.
Articles:
Early Days in Aldeburgh - Recollections of a Railway Enthusiast, by George Behrend;
The New Craft Tradition, by Charles Hocking and Eric Sandon;
William Nicholson, by Lillian Browse;
Wild Men in Suffolk, by Felicity Dracopoli
Goethe, Faust & Music, by Keith Pollard.
Exhibitions:
Aldeburgh:
Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949), in the Festival Gallery, arranged by Messrs Roland, Browse and Delbanco;
Four Danish Artists (Per Kirkby, Knud Hansen, Kasper Heiberg, Knud Hvidberg), in the British Legion Hall, arranger unspecified, (sponsored by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of the Royal Danish Government);
Snape:
Henry Moore - Two-piece Reclining Figure No. 5, on the north lawn, The Maltings;
Ceri Richards (1903-1971) & Frances Richards, in the New Gallery, The Maltings, arranged by Harry Fischer;
Suffolk Craft Society, Second annual exhibition, in the Craft Gallery, The Maltings, designed by Jack Penton;
Angus McBean, Photographer of Opera, in the Marland Gallery, The Maltings, open to concert-goers only, arranged by Angus McBean;
Yoxford:
Notes & Embellishments: English printed music since 1500, at Grove Park, arranged by J. M. Thomson.
Lectures:
Bartók as Folklorist given by A. L. Lloyd in the Jubilee Hall;
Archaeology & the Public given by Glyn Daniel in the Jubilee Hall;
Envirotecture given by Sir Hugh Casson in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
Britten, Pears and Rostropovich on an Armenian Holiday 1965, photographer unspecified;
Festival Faces, photographed by Clive Strutt and Jeff Brinded;
Joan Cross and Peter Pears as the Female and Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia (PHPN/17/1/1), Glyndebourne 1946, photographed by Angus McBean;
Robert and Clara Schumann Daguerreotype, 1850;
Ralph Vaughan Williams c. 1911, by courtesy of Ursula Vaughan Williams;
Drawing of Grove Park, Yoxford;
Title page for Michael Kelly's The Romance of Bluebeard 1798, from the music printing exhibition at Grove Park;
Ceri Richards (1903-1971), photographed by Topix;
Two-piece Reclining Figure No. 5 by Henry Moore;
Passion Flower by Frances Richards;
Series of Wild Men, photographed by Ford Jenkins and John R. Freeman Fotomass Index;
The Graf Zeppelin over Moot Green c. 1938, by courtesy of Keith Cable;
The launching of Abdy Beauclerk by HRH Prince George 1932, by courtesy of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution;
The Ipswich Torcs (gold neck ornaments, c. 75 BC), photographed by Peter M Warren;
Green Glazed Jug (13th Century) found at Dunwich 1971, photographed by Michael Cornell, by courtesy of Ipswich Museum.
1 volume
Bound into a volume which includes the years 1972-1974; 18.5 x 24.5cm with pencil annotations.
Master copy (bound volume)
Archive
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PG-AF-1972
