Programme for the twenty-seventh 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 Association and a number of photographs including one of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (Patron of the Festival). There are a number of articles including an excerpt from Peter Pears's 1972 diary entitled Saint Enoch and complete details of all the productions, lectures, exhibitions and other events.
Provisional dates for the Twenty-eighth Aldeburgh Festival: 4-22 June 1975. (In the event 6-23 June 1975).
Designed and Printed by W. S. Cowell Ltd.
Cover: Norwegian Fjord by Keith Grant.
Also listed at the back are the names of the performers and staff of the English Chamber Orchestra and The English Opera Group. 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 Festival Services. Other information included details of useful Local Information for Visitors and a map of Aldeburgh with significant locations marked. There are also details on how visitors can support the Aldeburgh Festival including information on specially commissioned items for purchase such as the Benjamin Britten Royal Crown Derby Service and Aldeburgh Anthology edited by Ronald Blythe, (see PG/AF/1972/32).
At the back are a number of advertisements as well as the programme for Music at The Maltings 1974.
Programme price: Unspecified
Advertisements:
Suffolk Trust for Nature Conservation, Exhibition of Paintings & Antiques by Suffolk artists;
Aldringham Craft Market, Exhibitions of Silver by Keith Tyssen, and Sculpture and Pottery by Glynn Hugo;
Yoxford Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by East Anglian Artists;
Framlingham Art Gallery, Exhibitions including Death in Venice graphics and goache;
Old Slaughter House Gallery, Paintings and drawings by Burfoot and Armour-Chelu;
C. A. Potter Antiques, Exhibition of Early Victorian Watercolours by George Gregor Delotz;
Fry Gallery, 18th & 19th Century East Anglia, Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings;
Anglian Arts & Antiques, Snape Antiques Fair;
Redoubtable Art Gallery, Exhibitions and Snape Craft Shop for genuine craft items;
Sotheby's, The largest firm of art auctioneers in the world;
Redoubtable, Evangeline Dickson;
Halesworth Gallery, Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture;
The Terrace Aldeburgh, Robert Sadler;
Aldeburgh Cottage, Connie Winn Paintings;
Faber & Faber, Faber books on music and Music published by them;
WS Cowell Limited, Cowells Book and colour printers;
Hansom Books, Titles published monthly;
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited, Benjamin Britten Stage Works;
The Aldeburgh Bookshop, A selection of books, scores and libretti etc;
Jersey Artists Ltd, Books available through Aldeburgh Bookshop;
The Boydell Press, Books available at the Aldeburgh Bookshop during the Festival;
Halcyon Days, The Gustav Holst Centenary Box;
Cambridge Music Shop, publication: Gustav Holst A Guide to his Centenary compiled by Imogen Holst;
J & W Chester/Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Publishers of Scandinavian Music, wishes of success to Festival;
The Decca Record Company Limited, Aldeburgh Festival Artists on Decca Group Records;
Aldeburgh Music Centre, Opening times throughout the Festival;
Wharfedale Rank Radio International Ltd, Wharfedale Hi Fi Systems;
Marks & Spencer, St Michael by Marks & Spencer: encore...encore;
Alfred Dunhill Ltd, The most distinguished tobacco house in the world;
Barclays Bank, Listen, they're playing our song;
Lloyds Bank, Why you should have two or three bank accounts at Lloyds;
Stephensons (Aldeburgh), Jewellers;
Mercury Theatre Colchester, Programme available and other amenities;
O & C Butcher Ltd of Aldeburgh, Clothing outfitters;
Fisk's Clematis Nursery, New clematis from Fisk's;
Hurren of Aldeburgh, Clothing Store;
Anglia Television, The Regional Television Service with the International Reputation;
The Red Ox Restaurant Yoxford, French and Italian Cooking;
Wm C Reade of Aldeburgh Limited, Contractors for the building of Snape Concert Hall;
Fitzwalter Wright Limited, Merchant Bankers to East Anglia;
Eastern Daily Press/Eastern Daily Times, Reflecting East Anglia's Cultural Life;
The UDS Group, Best wishes to the Festival;
The Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools, IAPS schools concert on 27 July in the Maltings;
J & W Chester Ltd, Publishers of the works of Lennox Berkeley;
Olivia Fashions, Simple Elegance from;
Percy Wigg Ltd, Specialists in the removal of modern and antique keyboard fashions;
Steinway & Sons, Steinway the Piano of International Fame;
Felixstowe's Marlborough Hotel, Felixstowe's friendliest hotel;
Notcutts Nurseries and Garden Centre, Appearing at the Twenty-seventh Aldeburgh Festival;
Richard Kihl Ltd, Wine Shippers and Brokers;
The Loaves & Fishes, Beccles restaurant;
John Player Special, A special variation;
Sainsbury's Supermarket, Best wishes from;
O. W. Loeb & Company Ltd, For those wonderful German Wines;
Shrubland Hall Health Clinic, Facilities available;
Gross Cash Registers Ltd, Best wishes for a successful Twenty-seventh Festival;
Arnott & Calver, Auctioneers, Estate Agents, Surveyors and Valuers;
Brandts Limited, The Merchant Bankers.
Articles:
Gustav Holst (1874-1934), by John Warrack;
The Snape Study Week for Singers, by Walter Todds;
Saint Enoch: More Pages from a Diary, by Peter Pears;
The Bury St Edmunds Cross, by Norman Scarfe.
Exhibitions:
Aldeburgh:
Gustav Holst, born 1874, in the British Legion Hall, arranged by Imogen Holst and Jane Jacomb-Hood;
Rolf Nesch, Prints and graphics, in the Festival Gallery, arranger unspecified;
Snape:
Keith Grant, Paintings of Norway, in the New Gallery The Maltings, arranger unspecified (Keith Grant?)
The Suffolk Craft Society Fourth annual exhibition, in the Craft Gallery The Maltings, under the supervision of Donald Simpson;
Kurt Hutton (1893-1960) Photographs, in the Marland Gallery The Maltings, arranged by Colin Osman.
Lectures:
Holst as a learner given by Imogen Holst in the Jubilee Hall;
The Nature of Musicality given by Hans Keller in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, photographed by Cecil Beaton;
The Bury St Edmunds Cross, front view, back view, front centre medallion: Moses raising the brazen serpent, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection 1963;
Sidney Nolan's Children's Crusade, photograph by courtesy of Sidney Nolan;
Death in Venice 1973: On the boat to Venice; In the Hotel Barber's shop; The Feasts of the Sun (PHPN/6/1/69); The pursuit (PHPN/6/1/103), photographed by Donald Cooper;
Jennifer Vyvyan as the Governess in The Turn of the Screw (PHPN/18/8/14) and as Tytania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, photographed by Zoë Dominic and Reg Wilson respectively;
Kurt Hutton: self-portrait by courtesy of Peter Hutton;
Gustav Holst as a student, c. 1898-1900 and his signature, by courtesy of Imogen Holst.
1 volume
Bound into a volume which includes the years 1972-1974; 18.5 x 24.5cm with pencil annotations.
Photographs torn across the top in programme book copy.
Master copy (bound volume)
Archive
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PG-AF-1974
