Programme for the thirty-first 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 The Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies at Snape Maltings. In addition there are a number of articles by contributors including Imogen Holst, the Earl of Cranbrook and Norman Scarfe, full production details and information relating to the lectures, exhibitions and other events.
Provisional dates for the Thirty-second Aldeburgh Festival: 8-24 June 1979. (In the event 8-25 June 1979)
Printed at the Shenval Press, London and Harlow.
Design Consultant for the Programme Book: Hugh Tempest-Radford.
Cover: The barge 'Ivy' by John Craske.
The vignettes interspersed throughout the programmes are from A History of British Birds by Thomas Bewick, 1826.
Listed at the back are the details of the Festival Services and the names of the performers and staff involved in the Festival, including this year: the Snape Maltings Training Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia Orchestra, Contrapuncti, Kent Opera, and the University of East Anglia Singers. 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 1978 and notification of the dates for the 3rd Benson & Hedges Festival (1-7 Oct 1979).
Programme price: Unspecified
Advertisements:
Benson and Hedges, Music Festival, Snape Maltings, 3-8 October 1978, with brief by-line by Peter Pears on the First Benson & Hedges Festival and publicity details for the Benjamin Britten Memorial Appeal;
Fry Gallery, Exhibition: Watercolours and Drawings by Cecil Lay;
Faber & Faber, Announcement of the publication in Autumn 1978 of Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Pictures from a Life by Donald Mitchell;
Snape Craft Shop & Art Gallery, Exhibitions of work by Evangeline Dickson and Aidan Kirkpatrick;
Aldeburgh Bookshop, Books, Maps and Guides, Stationery...;
Faber Music and Faber & Faber, Faber Books on Music available at the Aldeburgh Bookshop and Faber Music available at the Aldeburgh Music Centre;
Hurren of Aldeburgh, Clothing Store;
Wm C Reade Of Aldeburgh Limited, Contractors for the building of Snape Concert Hall;
Aldringham Craft Market, Exhibition of Scottish Crafts;
Steinway & Sons, Steinway the Piano of International Fame;
Amadeus House, Woodwind Studio and Workshop of Geoffrey Acton;
Adnams Bitter, Recipe, Britain's finest traditional beer;
Decca Record Company Limited, Celebrate This Year's Festival;
Decca Record Company Limited, We Have The Names...;
Sotheby's, The international fine art auctioneers;
Britannia Building Society, Ipswich Head Office;
Jersey Artists Ltd, Books from;
Anglia Television, Anglia - The Regional Television Service with the International Reputation;
Colchester Institute of Higher Education, School of Music;
The Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools, IAPS schools concert on 26 July in the Maltings;
Connie Winn, Paintings of Norfolk and Suffolk;
39 The Terrace Aldeburgh, Exhibition of Paintings by Robert Sadler;
Mill Edge, Middleton, Recent Paintings of Dieppe and Suffolk by Hugh Boycott-Brown;
Old Police Station, Crabbe Street, Watercolours by Jonathan Fookes;
Old Slaughter House Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by Burfoot and Armour-Chelu;
Fisk's Clematis Nursery, Clematis Nursery opening hours and colour catalogue available;
Olivia Fashions, Clothes for pleasure and leisure;
Barclays Bank, We'll Keep a Score of your Notes;
John & Arthur Beare, Dealers and Repairers of Fine Violins, Violas and Cellos since 1892;
Yoxford Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by East Anglian and International Artists;
Grove Park, Yoxford, An Exhibition and Sale of Persian and Oriental Rugs;
Marks & Spencer, ...encore...encore;
Grayson Travel Limited, For Festival Fly-aways...;
Arnott & Calver, Auctioneers, Estate Agents, Surveyors and Valuers;
Peter Dominic, Very Special Wine Shop;
East Anglian Securities Trust Limited, Locations of Banks;
Bahnhoff, Licensed restaurant;
The Corner Shop, Aldeburgh, Collectable Antique Glass;
Adam Paul, Violin Maker;
M Morales - Leal, Private Hire Taxi and Bicycle hire;
Phillips, Janet Baker with the English Chamber Orchestra;
Phillips, Beaux Arts Trio;
Phillips, The Music of Sir Michael Tippett conducted by Colin Davis;
Marry at Jackson Norris Ltd, Mechanical Services for the Snape Concert Hall;
Artic Home Improvements Ltd, Contractors to the Aldeburgh Festival Club;
Steward & Co Ltd, Electrical Installation Engineers;
Haymills, Builders of the New Britten Pears School for Avanced Musical Studies;
O. W. Loeb & Company Ltd, For those wonderful German Wines;
The Boydell Press, Publications available;
EMI, His Master's Voice, The Great Names are on HMV;
Rochfords Houseplants, Make your World grow;
Mercury Theatre Colchester, A Complete Evening's Entertainment;
C. T. Bowring & Co. Ltd, There's sure no passion in the human soul but find its food in music - tribute to the Festival;
Schott, The music of Michael Tippet is published exclusively by...;
Musicians' Benevolent Fund, Janet Baker speaks about the Fund;
Deutsche Grammophon, Recordings by artists appearing at the Aldeburgh Festival 1978;
Hansom Books, Monthly publications;
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited, Benjamin Britten - pocket scores in preparation and recent publications;
Notcutts Nurseries, Catalogue available chance to win a voucher by identifying a song;
The Potters Wheel Walberswick, Potters' gallery, artists' gallery, print, garden and tea rooms;
The Pauls & Whites Group, We've made an international art of malting;
CBS Records, Murray Perahia Plays and Conducts Mozart on CBS Masterworks;
R. W. Curle Electrical Contractors to the Aldeburgh Festival;
East Anglian Printers Anglian Office Equipment LTD, Suppliers of Printing, Office Machines and Commercial Stationery wish Aldeburgh Festival continued success;
Halcyon Days, Suppliers of Objet's D'Art, A Bilston enamel miniature musical box;
The Festival Raffle, Details of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes;
Opportunity Shop, Aldeburgh, Receiving and selling good-as-new-things in aid of the Aldeburgh Festival;
Benson & Hedges, Special Filter.
Articles:
Conservation in Suffolk, by The Earl of Cranbrook;
Recollections of Times Past, by Imogen Holst;
Digging for St Botolph, by Norman Scarfe and Stanley West;
Straightening the Furrow, by George Ewart Evans.
Exhibitions:
Aldeburgh:
Henry Moore - Lithographs, in the Festival Gallery, The Suffolk, Aldeburgh, arranger unspecified;
Anthony Gross, Paintings, drawings and prints, in the Royal British Legion Hall, arranger unspecified;
Snape:
John Piper, Recent Pictures and a few early ones, in New Gallery the Maltings, arranger unspecified, (exhibition note by Peter Pears);
Reynolds Stone, Engravings, in the South Bar, the Maltings, arranger unspecified;
Suffolk Historic Churches Trust - Photographs, in Marland Gallery (South Side) the Maltings, arranger unspecified, (open to concert-goers only);
Nigel Luckhurst, Photographs taken during the 1977 Festival, in Marland Gallery (North Side) the Maltings, (open to concert-goers only);
Suffolk Craft Society, Eighth annual exhibition, 86 High Street Aldeburgh, designed under the supervision of Donald Simpson.
Lectures:
The Timber Roofs of Suffolk Churches given by Alec Clifton-Taylor in the Jubilee Hall;
From Superstar to Superfan given by Alexander Walker in the Jubilee Hall;
Orfeo - The First Great Opera given by Denis Arnold in the Jubilee Hall;
Revolution and the Arts given by Sir Oliver Millar in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
Peter Pears - Musician of the Year 21 February 1978, photographed by The Press Association Ltd;
Suffolk Punches, photographed by Brian Shuel/The Home Office;
Reproduction of a letter from Sister Mary Denis Baldwin in California about Peter Grimes;
Blakemore by John Piper;
Portrait of Anthony Gross at work;
Pictures of Imogen Holst, one with Rostropovich, photographed by Nigel Luckhurst;
Henry Moore in his lithographic studio at Much Hadham, photographed by Nigel Luckhurst;
Scene from Death in Venice, 1975 production (PHPN/6/4/10), photographed by Nigel Luckhurst;
Peter Pears with James Murray and Mrs Betty Randolph Bean with cowhorn, photographed by Ian Anderson;
Portrait of Benjamin Britten by Henry Lamb (1945) acquired by Peter Pears;
Peter Pears with Sylvia Townsend Warner, photographed by Nigel Luckhurst.
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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