Programme for the thirty-third 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 John Andrews - on A Composer (Britten) and his Publisher (Ralph Hawkes) and Imogen Holst, full production details and information relating to the lectures, exhibitions and other events.
Provisional dates for the Thirty-fourth Aldeburgh Festival: 12-28 June 1981
Printer unspecified (Shenval Press, London and Harlow?).
Cover: Wiston Harvest (1930) by John Nash.
Illustrations: John Nash drawings.
Design Consultant: Hugh Tempest Radford.
Listed at the back are the details of the Festival Services and Festival Fair, Letters from the Canadian Aldeburgh Foundation and the American Friends of the Aldeburgh Festival, a note by Peter Pears on the 1980 Benson and Hedges Festival, details of sponsorship and bursaries available at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies, and the names of the performers and staff involved in the Festival. This year they included the English Chamber Orchestra, English Music Theatre Company, English Music Theatre Orchestra, the English Symphony Orchestra, the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the London Sinfonietta, the Snape Maltings Training Orchestra, the Aldeburgh Festival Singers and the Saint Thomas Church Choir of Men and Boys. 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 the programmes for Summer and Autumn at Snape Maltings 1980, Summer and Autumn at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies 1980, notification of the dates for the Benson & Hedges Festival (29 September-5 Oct 1980) and numerous advertisements.
Programme price: Unspecified
Advertisements:
Aldeburgh Festival News, Festival Raffle and Festival Fête details;
The Opportunity Shop, Try your luck in the Festival lottery;
The Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools, IAPS schools concert on 23 July in the Maltings;
Benson and Hedges, Music Festival, Snape Maltings, 29 September-5 October 1980;
Eulenburg Books: Titles available including Gabriel Fauré by Robert Orledge;
Pauls & Whites Ltd, Pride in the past, confidence in the future;
Capital Radio/Radio Orwell, London Orchestra in concert at Snape Maltings;
Notcutts Nurseries, Chance to win a voucher by identifying a song;
Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich's New Theatre;
Decca Record Company Limited, Aldeburgh 1980 with Decca;
Fund-Raising Committee of the Aldeburgh Festival, A Unique Record to mark Sir Peter Pears' 70th birthday;
The Chiropractic Advancement Association, Details of and list of patrons;
Decca Record Company Limited, Decca congratulates Sir Peter Pears: 70 Years Young!;
John & Arthur Beare, Dealers and repairers of fine violins, violas and cellos since 1892;
Musicians' Benevolent Fund, Sir Michael Tippett writes about the Fund;
Faber & Faber and Faber Music, Faber Books on Music available at the Aldeburgh Bookshop and Faber Music available at the Aldeburgh Music Centre;
Fisk's Clematis Nursery, Clematis Nursery opening hours and colour catalogue available;
Mercury Theatre Colchester, A Complete Evening's Entertainment;
CBS Masterworks, Murray Perahia exclusively on;
Aldeburgh Interiors, for something special;
The Potters Wheel, Potters gallery, artists gallery, print room, garden room and tea room;
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publisher Ltd, New publications by composers of this year's festival;
Bunge's Restaurant, Licensed restaurant in Yoxford;
Hurren of Aldeburgh, Clothing Store;
EMI, His Master's Voice, The Great Names are on HMV: Britten and Pears - The Early Recordings for release in June;
Olivia Fashions, Clothes for pleasure and leisure;
Britannia Building Society, Ipswich Head Office;
Shell, The heart of country matters from Shell books: The Shell Book of English Villages;
Hansom Books, Monthly publications;
Philips, Simply the Best: Janet Baker and Henryk Szeryng;
Adnams Bitter, Recipe, Britain's finest traditional beer;
Aldeburgh Bookshop, Books, Maps and Guides, Stationery...;
The Corn Exchange, Entertainments, Arts and Conference Centre;
Sotheby's, Contact details;
Chelsea Rare Books, Will be at Aldeburgh from 6-22 June at the Fry Gallery;
Deben Frames, Complete Picture Framing Service;
O. W. Loeb & Company Ltd, For those wonderful German Wines;
Jersey Artists Ltd, Books from;
Arnott & Calver, Auctioneers, Estate Agents, Surveyors and Valuers;
Aldeburgh Music Centre, Specialists in records and music of Benjamin Britten and works performed in the Festival;
East Anglian Securities Trust Limited, Locations of Banks;
Snape Maltings Snape Craft Centre, Exhibition of recent works by Richard Bradley (Gold and Silversmith);
Vauxhall, Snape Motor Company;
Adnams International Travel, For Aldeburgh Fly-Aways;
70 High St Aldeburgh, Exhibition by Michael Norman at Reade;
Claude Cox, Old and Rare books;
Old Slaughter House Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by Burfoot and Armour-Chelu;
Aldringham Craft Market, Exhibition of Stoneware and Porcelain by Glynn Hugo and Smocking by Mrs Wilhelmina Johnston;
Marks & Spencer, Marks' Penny Bazaar, support to this outstanding festival;
Visit of Snape Navy, SS Neljan carries Stowmarket Band Octet to Snape Quay;
Barclays Bank, Great performances deserve credit;
Connie Winn, Paintings of Suffolk;
45 Park Road Aldeburgh, Exhibition of Paintings by Shirley Claridge;
Blythburgh W.I Hall, Exhibition and Sale of Persian and Oriental Rugs;
Omell Gallery London, East Anglian paintings by Hugh Boycott-Brown;
Benson & Hedges, Middle Tar.
Articles:
A Composer and his Publisher, Benjamin Britten and Ralph Hawkes, by John Andrews;
Something about Woodbridge, by John Hadfield;
Advantages of being seventy, by Imogen Holst.
Exhibitions:
Aldeburgh:
Gudran Folca - Illustrations to Schubert, Schumann and Britten - paintings on silk, in the Festival Gallery, The Suffolk, arranger unspecified;
Mary Potter - Recent Paintings, in the Royal British Legion Hall, arranger unspecified.
Snape:
John Nash R. A., Paintings, water-colours and drawings, in the Recital Room, the Maltings, arranger unspecified;
Nigel Luckhurst, Photographs taken during the 1979 Aldeburgh Festival, in Marland Gallery (North Side), the Maltings, arranger Nigel Luckhurst (?), (open to concert-goers only);
John Craske (1881-1943), Needle-work pictures and watercolours, in Marland Gallery (North Side), the Maltings, arranger unspecified, (open to concert-goers only).
Lectures:
Busman Ward given by Roger Frith in the Jubilee Hall;
A Medium Gas given by Clement Freud in the Jubilee Hall;
Holst's Music in the 1980s given by John Warrack in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, photographed by Anthony Buckley;
In memory of Benjamin Britten, Painting on silk by Gudrun Folca, photographer unspecified;
Mary Potter, photographed by Edward Morgan;
John Nash in his studio at Wormingford, 1961, photographed by Russell Westwood;
Imogen Holst, Oil sketch by Edward Seago, July 1962, photographer unspecified;
Peter Neville Luard Pears with his mother, Sunday 7 May 1911, photographer unspecified;
Peter Pears aged four or five, dressed in a sailor suit, (PH/2/1), photographer unspecified;
Pears with Britten in the Old Mill at Snape, c. 1938, (PH/3/8) photographer unspecified;
Pears stood in front of a portrait of Britten, photographed by Ian Murphy 1980;
Mstislav Rostropovich on stage with the company of Eugene Onegin, production at 1979 Aldeburgh Festival, photographed by Nigel Luckhurst;
Britten sitting with John Culshaw listening to a playback of their recording of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, (PH/5/284), photographed by Hans Wild;
Britten with Russell Burgess and the Wandsworth Boys' Choir after their London Weekend Television performance of Britten's vaudeville 'The Golden Vanity', (PH/4/444), Photographed by London Weekend Television;
Gathering after the Britten Memorial concert given in St. Thomas Church New York December 1979. From left to right: Betty Randolph Bean, Pat Servaes, Lady Parsons and Sir Anthony Parsons, Alice Tully, Frank Taplin, Reverend John Andrew, photographer unspecified;
Jane Mackenzie receiving the Viola Tunnard Award from Janet Baker, Nancy Evans and Peter Pears, October 1979, photographed by Nigel Luckhurst;
The Benjamin Britten Memorial Window with Patrick Reyntiens and John Piper before it left the studio, photographed by The Times.
1 volume
Bound into a volume which includes the years 1979-1982; 18.5 x 24.5cm with pencil annotations.
Master copy (bound volume)
Archive
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