Programme for the twenty-eighth 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 a portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (Patron of the Festival) by the photographer Cecil Beaton. There are a number of articles including an account by Ronald Blythe on filming Akenfield and an extract from Peter Pear's diary entitled The New York Death in Venice.
Complete details of all the productions, lectures, exhibitions and other events are included.
Provisional dates for the Twenty-ninth Aldeburgh Festival: 2-20 June 1976. (In the event 4-20 June 1976).
Designed and Printed by W. S. Cowell Ltd.
Cover Photograph: The Maltings by John Donat.
Line Drawings by Meg Stevens.
Also listed at the back are the names of the performers and staff of the English Opera Group, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Aldeburgh Festival Singers. Details of the Festival Services are followed by two indexes of Artists' names and Music performed (with first performances marked with an asterix) during the Festival. 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 and the Maltings Concert Hall 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 Summer at Snape Maltings 1975.
Programme price: Unspecified
Advertisements:
Old Slaughter House Gallery, Paintings and drawings by Burfoot and Armour-Chelu;
Snape Craft Shop, Opening times and details of stock;
Ellingham Mill Art Society, Summer Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture;
Halesworth Gallery, Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture;
Aldeburgh Cottage, Connie Winn Paintings;
1 Lavender Cottages, Hugh Boycott-Brown, RMSA, Paintings of Aldeburgh and Suffolk;
Fry Gallery, East Anglian Watercolours Marine and Flower Studies, Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings;
The Viditorium, Exhibition of modern works of art...;
Aldringham Craft Market, Exhibition: The Potter's Choice;
Arnott & Calver, Auctioneers, Estate Agents, Surveyors and Valuers;
The Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools, IAPS schools concert on 26 July in the Maltings;
Anglian Arts & Antiques, Snape Antiques Fair;
Anthony Hurst Antiques, Selection of 18th Century English furniture;
Milestone House Pottery Workshop and Shop, Old Bakery, Morning coffee, lunches and teas, The Red Ox Restaurant, Yoxford Bookshop, Yoxford Gallery;
Grove Park Yoxford, Exhibition and sale of Eastern carpets and rugs;
The Mill House Ufford, Exhibitions: antiques and pictures from the 15th to the 19th Century, Pastels by Peggy Somerville and paintings by Suffolk Children;
Fisk's Clematis Nursery, Clematis Specialists;
Faber Music and Faber & Faber, Faber Music available at the Aldeburgh Music Centre, and Faber Books on Music available at the Aldeburgh Book Shop;
Faber Music and Faber & Faber, Benjamin Britten & Sidney Nolan - Children's Crusade Limited Signed Facsimilie Edition;
Cambridge Music Shop, publication of Dolmetsch the man and his work by Margaret Campbell and other events;
Jersey Artists Ltd, Books available through Aldeburgh Bookshop;
The Aldeburgh Bookshop, Open at lunchtime during the Festival;
The Boydell Press, Books available at the Aldeburgh Bookshop during the Festival;
Hutchinson (Publishers), Music related Publications;
Anglia Television, Anglia - The Regional Television Service with the International Reputation;
O. W. Loeb & Company Ltd, For those wonderful German Wines;
Steinway & Sons, Steinway the Piano of International Fame;
Marks & Spencer, St Michael the brand name of Marks & Spencer;
Adnams Bitter, Recipe, Britain's finest traditional beer;
Percy Wigg Ltd, Specialists in the removal of modern and antique keyboard fashions;
Felixstowe's Marlborough Hotel, Felixstowe's friendliest hotel;
Decca Record Company, Records available at the Festival and on Decca;
Boosey & Hawkes, Britten Catalogue;
RCA, Together Again - Julian Bream and John Williams;
Barclays Bank, Listen, they're playing our song;
EMI Records Ltd, HMV records available by Festival artists;
Gross Cash Registers Ltd, Best wishes for a successful Twenty-eighth Festival;
John Player Cigarettes, See Britain at its best;
The UDS Group, Best wishes to the Festival;
Olivia Fashions, Simple Elegance from;
Cowells Book and colour printers, a sound of printing;
The Pauls & Whites Group, If music be the food of love...
Stephensons (Aldeburgh) Ltd, stockists of jewellery, watches and china;
Eastern Daily Press/Eastern Daily Times, Well informed. Well Read;
Hurren of Aldeburgh, Clothing Store;
Lloyds bank, Money, money, money...;
C. T. Bowring & Co. Ltd, In sweet music is such art - tribute to the Festival;
William Brown & Company (Ipswich), Timber Merchants;
Wm C Reade of Aldeburgh Limited, Contractors for the building of Snape Concert Hall;
Peter Dominic, Very Special Wine Shop;
Mercury Theatre Colchester, Programme available and other amenities;
Philips, Recordings on Philips: Janet Baker and Beaux Arts Trio;
Notcutts Nurseries, Invitation to visit the roses;
Worcester Three Choirs Festival, 24-29 August, Programme includes...;
Hansom Books, Titles published monthly.
Articles:
Filming Akenfield, by Ronald Blythe;
The Listener as Eavesdropper, by Hans Keller;
The New York Death in Venice, by Peter Pears.
Exhibitions:
Aldeburgh:
The Earthly Paradise, in the Festival Gallery, arranged by the Fine Art Society;
Embroidery Today, in the Royal British Legion Hall, arranged by members of the Suffolk and North Essex Branch of the Embroiders' Guild;
Snape:
Three Views of Landscape, in the New Gallery The Maltings, arranged by the New Art Centre;
John Piper: Death in Venice, in the Marland Gallery The Maltings, arranged by Marlborough Graphics;
Suffolk Craft Society, in the Craft Gallery The Maltings, designed by Donald Simpson.
Lectures:
Suffolk Dialect given by Stanley Ellis in the Jubilee Hall;
The Young Auden given by Stephen Spender in the Jubilee Hall;
Pony-Trekking in Search of Himalayan Temples given by Penelope Chetwode in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, photographed by Cecil Beaton;
Benjamin Britten with children from Hatfield School after their special performance of The Golden Vanity December 1974, photographed by Nigel Luckhurst;
Benjamin Britten being awarded the first Ernst von Siemens Foundation Award 1973, photographed by Jane Jacomb-Hood;
Peter Pears in New York, October 1974, photographed by Victor Parker;
Two scenes from The Voice of Ariadne 1974, photographed by Nigel Luchkhurst;
Two scenes from Albert Herring 1974, photographed by Nigel Luckhurst;
Imogen Holst conducting at Kneller Hall, photographed by Gerald Style;
Portrait of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by Cavendish Morton, by courtesy of Cavendish Morton Jnr;
William Plomer, Roy Campbell and Laurens van der Post at Sezela, southern Zululand, 1926, photographed by Mary Campbell, by courtesy of Laurens van der Post;
Mahler's manuscript of Das himmlische Leben dated 10 February 1892, photographed by Berlin Staatsbibliothek;
The Earthly Paradise by Frederick Cayley Robinson, The oak addresses the spirits of the trees from The Blue Bird, and Mariners 1903;
Framlingham Castle, photographed by John Gay.
1 volume
Bound into a volume which includes the years 1975-1978; 18.5 x 24.5cm with pencil annotations.
Master copy (bound volume)
Archive
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