Programme for the thirtieth Aldeburgh Festival providing complete details of all the events held throughout the Festival period. The contents page and diary of events are followed by details of the Festival Administration and a number of photographs. In addition there are a number of articles, full production details and information relating to the lectures, exhibitions and other events.
Provisional dates for the Thirty-first Aldeburgh Festival: 9-25 June 1978. (In the event, 8-25 Jun 1978).
Printed at the Shenval Press, London and Harlow.
Cover: Photograph of Benjamin Britten taken by Nigel Luckhurst on 12 Jun 1976.
The vignettes interspersed throughout the programmes are from A History of British Birds by Thomas Bewick, 1832.
Listed at the back are the details of the Festival Services and the names of the performers and staff of the Aldeburgh Festival Singers, the Ballet Rambert, the English Music Theatre, the English Music Theatre Orchestra, Das Württembergishes Kammerorchester, the English Chamber Orchestra, The Northern Sinfonia Orchestra and The Snape Maltings Training Orchestra. There are two indexes of Artists' names and Music performed (with first performances marked with an asterix) plus other more general information. Included here are a map of Aldeburgh with significant locations marked, a site plan of Snape Maltings and local information for visitors.
At the back are a number of advertisements as well as the programme for Summer and Autumn at Snape Maltings and Elsewhere 1977 and notification of the dates for the 2nd Benson & Hedges Festival (2-8 Oct 1978).
Programme price: Unspecified
Advertisements:
Benson and Hedges, Music Festival, Snape Maltings, 27 September-2 October 1977;
Fry Gallery, Exhibition: Watercolours - Drawings - Prints;
Old Slaughter House Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by Burfoot and Armour-Chelu;
Aldeburgh Cottage Hospital, Exhibition of paintings by Connie Winn;
The Studio Aldeburgh, Paintings by Robert Sadler;
Stillpoint: Object & Image, Exhibition of Soda-Glazed Sculpture and Fine Thrown Porcelain;
Adam Paul, Violin Maker;
Opportunity Shop, Aldeburgh, Receiving and selling good-as-new-things;
Aldringham Craft Market, Porcelain Exhibition;
Jersey Artists Ltd, Books from;
Snape Craft Shop, Wide selection of local crafts...;
The Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools, IAPS schools concert on 21 July in the Maltings;
The Boydell Press, Books available at the Aldeburgh Bookshop during the Festival;
Aldeburgh Bookshop, Books, Maps and Guides, Stationery...;
Shell UK Oil, The Shell Guide to Suffolk by Norman Scarfe;
Faber Music and Faber & Faber, Faber Books on Music available at the Aldeburgh Bookshop and Faber Music available at the Aldeburgh Music Centre;
Decca Record Company Limited, The music of Benjamin Britten;
C. T. Bowring & Co. Ltd, It will discourse most eloquent music - tribute to the Festival;
Amadeus House, Woodwind Studio and Workshop of Geoffrey Acton;
Steinway & Sons, Steinway the Piano of International Fame;
J. B. Cramer & Co. Ltd, For all your sheet music requirements;
Barclays Bank, Our job is to make it simpler;
Marks & Spencer, ...encore...encore;
O. W. Loeb & Company Ltd, For those wonderful German Wines;
Peter Dominic, Very Special Wine Shop;
Adnams Bitter, Recipe, Britain's finest traditional beer;
RCA, Julian Bream A fabulous recording of lute music of John Dowland;
Hansom Books, Monthly publications;
Decca Record Company, Remember the Festival with these albums...;
East Anglian Securities Trust Limited, Locations of Banks;
Arnott & Calver, Auctioneers, Estate Agents, Surveyors and Valuers;
Colchester Institute of Higher Education, Faculty of Music and Art;
Musicians Benevolent Fund, Requests for donations;
The Dutch Barn Restaurant, Southwold, Contact details;
Performance by Peter Pears at Lincoln Cathedral, Details of;
Hurren of Aldeburgh, Clothing Store;
Olivia Fashions, Clothes for pleasure and leisure;
Fisk's Clematis Nursery, Clematis Nursery opening hours and colour catalogue available;
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited, Publishers of Robin Holloway;
Davy International Limited, International Ltd;
Britannia Building Society, Ipswich Head Office;
Philips, Janet Baker cassettes of Mahler and Gluck;
Wm C Reade Of Aldeburgh Limited, Contractors for the building of Snape Concert Hall;
R. W. Curle Electrical Contractors to the Aldeburgh Festival;
The Pauls & Whites Group, Good wishes from one maltings to another;
Notcutts Nurseries, Time you went to Notcutts to collect the plant in this song;
Benson & Hedges, Special Filter.
Articles:
Birds around the Maltings, by Herbert Axell;
Fitz and the Sea, by Frank Hussey;
Suffolk Houses - an Interpretation, by Eric Sandon;
The Suffolk, by Paul Fincham;
Exhibitions:
Aldeburgh:
Masterpieces of British Drawing, in the Festival Gallery, The Suffolk, Aldeburgh, arranger unspecified;
Peggy Somerville 1918-1975, Paintings and Drawings, in the Royal British Legion Hall, arranger unspecified;
Snape:
Sidney Nolan, in New Gallery the Maltings, arranged by Marlborough Fine Art, (exhibition note by Peter Pears);
Suffolk Craft Society, in the Craft Gallery the Maltings, designed by Donald Simpson;
Nigel Luckhurst, Photographs taken during the 1976 Festival, in Marland Gallery (North Side) the Maltings;
Early Stone Sculpture, in Marland Gallery (South Side) the Maltings, arranged by Jane Geddes;
John Craske (1881-1943), Pictures in needlework, oil and watercolour, in South Bar the Maltings, given to the Snape Maltings Foundation by Sylvia Townsend Warner.
Lectures:
The Craft of the Potter in Britain today (illustrated talk) given by Michael Casson in the Jubilee Hall;
A Critic's Pleasures given by Dilys Powell in the Jubilee Hall;
Animals and Men given by Kenneth Clark in the Jubilee Hall.
Festival Study Course Lectures (open to the public):
English Opera Librettos of the Twentieth Century given by Eric Walter White in Aldeburgh Cinema;
Mozart and the Piano given by Gordon Green in Aldeburgh Cinema;
Elgar as I knew him given by Wulstan Atkins in Aldeburgh Cinema;
The Critic given by Edward Greenfield in Aldeburgh Cinema;
Acis, Galatea and Handel given by Watkins Shaw;
Britten - the last works given by Donald Mitchell in Aldeburgh Cinema;
The Fairy Queen - a discussion given by Colin Graham and Roger Savage.
Photographs:
The Descent of Typhon and the Gods into Hell (Milton's Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity) by William Blake (1757-1827), from Whitworth Art Gallery;
Edward Fitzgerald at Cambridge in 1833: drawing by James Spedding, reproduced by permission of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge;
Edward Fitzgerald as an old man: etching by Charles Keene;
Little Girl in a Short Skirt by George Ehrlich, given by Mrs George Ehrlich for sale in aid of Aldeburgh Festival Appeal;
Britten and Mstislav Rostropovich in June 1976 (PH/4/557), photographed by Nigel Luckhurst;
Badmondisfield Hall: a drawing by John Western (from Suffolk Houses by Eric Sandon).
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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