Programme for the twenty-sixth Aldeburgh Festival providing details of all the events held throughout the Festival. The contents page and programme summary are followed by details of the Festival Administration and a photographic scrapbook for 1972. There are a number of articles including an excerpt from Peter Pears's San Fortunato diary, complete details of all the productions, lectures, exhibitions and other events, a number of photographs and a great many advertisements.
Provisional dates for the Twenty-seventh Aldeburgh Festival: 7-25 June. (In the event 7-24 June 1974)
Designed and Printed by W. S. Cowell Ltd.
Cover: Palazzo Pesaro, Venice (pen and wash, 14 x 21 in) by John Piper.
Also listed at the back are the names of the performers and staff of the English Chamber Orchestra, The English Opera Group and The Aldeburgh Festival Singers. Two indexes of Artists' names and Music performed (with first performances marked with an asterix) during the Festival are followed by a note on the death of Owen Brannigan in May which stated that a portrait of him as Bottom from A Midsummer Night's Dream by John Worsley had been purchased for the Maltings. Other information included details of the Festival Services, useful Local Information for Visitors and a map of Aldeburgh with significant locations marked.
At the back is the programme for Summer at The Maltings 1973.
Programme price: £3.
Advertisements:
The Corner Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Michael Garady;
Hooker House Galleries (Halesworth), Paintings by Paula Nightingal ARCA;
Yoxford Gallery, Exhibitions: John Harvey, Vernon Tong, Chinese Exhibition, John Cooke;
C. A. Potter Antiques, Exhibition of Early Victorian Watercolours by George Gregor Delotz;
Fry Gallery, The Venetian Scene - Exhibition of 19th Century Watercolours and Drawings;
Other Exhibitions, Connie Winn Paintings, Robert Sadler Paintings in the Studio, Hugh Boycott-Brown RSMA and Paintings and Sculpture at Halesworth Gallery;
Aldringham Craft Market, Visit our new Gallery;
Anglian Arts & Antiques, Snape Antiques Fair;
Anglia Television, Anglia Television is the East of England;
J & W Chester Limited Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Publication of works by Lutoslawski;
O. W. Loeb & Company Ltd, For those wonderful German Wines;
Steinway & Sons, Steinway the Piano of International Fame;
Robert Carrier's Hintlesham Hall, Opening times for luncheon and dinner;
John Player Special, Best Virgiania cigarette in the world;
Barclays Bank, You'll get a helping hand at Barclays;
Fitzwalter Wright Limited, Merchant Bankers to East Anglia;
Gross Cash Registers Ltd, Best wishes for a successful Twenty-sixth Aldeburgh Festival;
Lloyds Bank, You don't have to be a big name to sign on with Lloyds Bank;
Sainsbury's Supermarket, All the best from Sainsbury's;
Faber & Faber, Faber books on music and Music published by them;
O & C Butcher Ltd of Aldeburgh, Mens and Ladies Wear of Quality and Distinction, Welcome all visitors to the Aldeburgh Festival;
Fisk's Clematis Nurseries, With a few varieties;
Mercury Theatre Colchester, Programme available and other amenities;
English Chamber Orchestra and Music Society, Details of 1973-1974 concert season;
Eastern Daily Press/Eastern Daily Times, Reflecting East Anglia's Cultural Life;
Novello Music, The rising generation and Novello;
The Rank Organisation, Rank make beautiful music too...;
Cambridge Music Shop, The only independent music shop...;
Picton Press, Three Guides to East Anglia;
RCA Records and Tapes, RCA Red Seal Performances by Julian Bream and André Previn;
Tolly Cobbold Brewers, Drink Tolly Cobbold Your Local Brewers;
The Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools, IAPS Schools concert in The Maltings on 22 July 1973;
Jersey Artists Ltd, Books available through Aldeburgh Bookshop;
Boosey and Hawkes, Available publications of music for voices and orchestra by Benjamin Britten;
Richard Kihl, Wine Shipper and Broker;
The Aldeburgh Bookshop, Music and books, scores and libretti of all Britten's works available for the Festival;
Strutt and Parker, In tune with your property requirements;
Stephensons Jewellers, Contribution to the Festival - see one of Britain's finest silversmiths at work;
Adnams, Champion Southwold Ales;
Percy Wigg Ltd, Specialists in the removal of modern and antique keyboard fashions;
Notcutts Nurseries, Only half-an-hour away...;
Arnott & Calver, Auctioneers, Estate Agents, Surveyors and Valuers;
Marks & Spencer, St Michael by Marks & Spencer: encore...encore;
Decca Record Company Limited, Benjamin Britten composer and performer on Decca records;
Aldeburgh Music Centre, Opening times throughout the Festival.
Articles:
Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, by T. J. Reed;
Wind Bands, by Imogen Holst;
Haydn's Il ritorno di Tobia, by H. C. Robbins Landon;
San Fortunato: From a diary, by Peter Pears;
Wine Growing in Great Britain, by Sir Guy Salisbury-Jones.
Exhibitions:
Aldeburgh:
Echoes of Venice, in the Festival Gallery, arranged by The Fine Art Society Ltd;
William Dobell (1899-1970) Drawings, in the British Legion Hall, arranged by Julien Stock
Snape:
Keith Vaughan, Paintings and gouaches, in the New Gallery The Maltings, arranged by Waddington Galleries;
John Craske (1881-1943), A second showing of pictures in needlework, oil and watercolour, in the New Gallery The Maltings, arranger unspecified, (see PG/AF/1971/37 for catalogue accompanying the first exhibition);
The Suffolk Craft Society, Third annual exhibition, in the Craft Gallery The Maltings, designed under the supervision of Donald Simpson and Robert Townsend;
Edwin Smith (1912-1971), A memorial exhibition of his photographs, in the Marland Gallery The Maltings, selected by Olive Smith;
Yoxford:
The Art of the Musical Instrument-Maker, some recent examples, at Grove Park, arranged by Hansjürg Lange and designed by Molly Kiran.
Lectures:
The Classical Theatre of Japan (illustrated) given by Colin Graham in the Jubilee Hall;
The Ethics of Forgery (illustrated) given by Sir Kenneth Clark in the Jubilee Hall;
The World of Percussion given by James Blades, assisted by Joan Goossens in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
Festival Scrapbook 1972, photographed by Jane Jacomb-Hood;
Scenes from Nippon Nogaku-Dan Japanese Theatre Production, photographer unspecified;
Richard Cooper and Heather Harper in a scene from The Turn of the Screw (1972) (PHPN/18/10/22), photographed by Robert Carpenter Turner;
In Venice for the première of The Turn of the Screw: John Piper, Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, Myfanwy Piper (PH/5/121), photographed by Erich Auerbach;
Portrait of Thomas Mann c. 1910, photograph from Thomas-Mann-Archiv, Zurich;
Dennington Church, parclose screen and Bardolph tomb, photographed by Edwin Smith;
The Kiedrich Choir (at Dennington Church?), photographed by Chorstift Kiedrich;
Tobias and the Angel, oil painting by a follower of Verrocchio (c. 1435-1488), reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees, The National Gallery;
A Suffolk Vineyard, Kelsale, reproduced by permission of the owner;
Clavichord by Thomas Goff and J. C. Cobby (1966), photographed by Jeff Brinded;
Keith Vaughan, photographed by J. S. Lewinski.
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
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