Programme for the thirty-fifth Aldeburgh Festival providing complete details of all the events held throughout the Festival period. The Orford Roundel engraved by David Kindersley which commemorates four Britten premières is reproduced alongside the contents page. The Festival Diary is 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 including A Personal Introduction to Percy Grainger by Peter Pears and James Joyce: 1882-1982 by Peter du Sautoy, full production details and information relating to the lectures, exhibitions and other events.
Provisional dates for the Thirty-sixth Aldeburgh Festival: 10-26 June 1983.
Printer: The Ancient House Press, Ipswich.
Cover: Walberswick Flower Paintings by Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Fritillaria (front) and Japanese Witch Hazel (back).
Illustrations: East Anglian Churches by Valerie Thornton..
Listed at the back are details of the Festival Artists, Music Index, Church Services and Local Information for Visitors including a plan of the site at Snape Maltings. Also supplied are details of the programme for Summer and Autumn 1982 at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies and details of the Benjamin Britten Composers' Competition 1983. A series of advertisements completes the programme book.
Programme price: Unspecified
Advertisements:
CBS Records, Isaac Stern Records Exclusively For CBS Masterworks;
Benson and Hedges, Music Festival and Gold Award, Snape Maltings, 26 September-3 October 1982;
Abbotts, Chartered Surveyors, New offices in Norwich and London;
Barclays Bank, We'll Keep a Score of Your Notes;
The Rebel Press, Working with Britten A Personal Memoir by Ronald Duncan;
Aldeburgh Interiors, For Something Special;
Adamas International Travel, For Aldeburgh Fly-Aways;
Musicians Benevolent Fund, Plea for donations;
Olivia Fashions, Clothes for pleasure and leisure;
Charles Spencer Theatre Gallery, World specialists in original prints portraits and theatrical designs;
Hambro Life Assurance PLC, Security for you your family and your future;
Aldeburgh Music Centre, Specialists in records and music of Benjamin Britten and works performed in the Festival;
O. W. Loeb & Company Ltd, For those wonderful German Wines;
The Deben Gallery, Exhibitions all year round, Complete Picture Framing Service;
Aldeburgh Parish Church, Exhibition and Sale of Persian and Oriental Rugs;
Medlars, Licensed Restaurant;
The Simon Carter Gallery, Exhibition during June & July;
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publisher Ltd, B & H at Aldeburgh 1982;
R & A Entertainments, Halls for Hire at the Corn Exchange Ipswich;
CBS Masterworks, Murray Perahia An Exclusive CBS Artist;
Pauls & Whites Ltd, Manufacturers of animal feed, malt and food flavours;
Hurren of Aldeburgh, Clothing Store;
Dent, Britten The fullest biography of Benjamin Britten yet published;
Snape Maltings Snape Craft Centre, Granary Wholefoods;
Aldeburgh Cinema Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings by members of New English Art Club;
BMW Stocks of Ipswich, Where Quality Counts;
Oxborrows Arnott & Calver, Chartered Surveyors, Auctioneers, Valuers and Estate Agents;
Adnams, We Sell The Best;
BBC Records & Tapes, Two special releases featuring rare talent in unique performance;
Notcutts Nurseries, Horticultural Ballet?;
The Montpellier Music and Video Company Limited, Beautiful Music in Beautiful Places;
East Anglian Securities Trust Limited, Merchant Banking Services for East Anglia;
EMI Records Ltd, Great Names on HMV;
Colchester Institute, School of Music;
The Potters Wheel, Potters gallery, artists gallery, print room, garden room and tea room;
C. T. Bowring & Co. Limited, It will discourse most eloquent music;
The Studio by the Ferry Walberswick, Exhibitions of Paintings;
Steinway & Sons, The Working Piano of the Playing Class;
Claude Cox, Old & Rare Books;
Schott, The works of Percy Grainger;
Anglia Television, Proud to Serve the East of England;
Ye Olde Crosse Keys Inne Aldeburgh, Traditional Ales;
Mercury Theatre, A Complete Evening's Entertainment;
Mercedes-Benz Lancaster GArage Group, New and Used Mercedes Benz;
Decca Records (UK), Carloss Bonell Guitar Showpieces, The Gabrieli String Quartet;
The Old Festival Gallery, Exhibition Paintings & Porcelain;
Jersey Artists Ltd, Books from;
Aldringham Craft Market, Summer Exhibition;
Amadeus House, Woodwind, Brass, Strings Instrument and Accessories;
Faber & Faber and Faber Music, Faber Books on Music available at the Aldeburgh Bookshop and Faber Music available at the Aldeburgh Music Centre;
The Suffolk, Restaurant & Wine Bar;
Ancient House Press, East Anglian Print House;
Benson & Hedges, B & H Special Filter Middle Tar.
Articles:
A Personal Introduction to Percy Grainger, by Sir Peter Pears;
A General Practitioner and his Music Festival, by Ian Tait;
James Joyce: 1882-1982, by Peter du Sautoy;
First Performances at the Aldeburgh Festival, by Rosamund Strode.
Exhibitions:
Aldeburgh:
Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Flower Paintings, in the Festival Gallery, organized by Roger Billcliffe of the Fine Art Society Ltd;
The Musical Stage - 350 Years of Original Prints and Designs, in the Royal British Legion Hall, organized by the Charles Spencer Theatre Gallery;
Mary Potter in Aldeburgh, in Gallery 44, arranger unspecified, programme note by Peter Pears;
The Beggar's Opera, in Aldeburgh Public Library, arranged by the Britten-Pears Library;
Fry Gallery Exhibitions: East Anglian Watercolours and William Henry Hunt (1790-1864), 163 High Street, arrangers unspecified.
Snape:
Five Suffolk Artists - Peter Burman (Ipswich), Jonathan Clarke (Hartest), Moss Fuller (Laxfield), Valerie Thornton (Chelsworth), Tony Yates (Palgrave), in Marland Gallery, the Maltings Concert Hall, arranged by the Upstairs Gallery at the Royal Academy;
Nigel Luckhurst, Photographs taken during the 1981 Aldeburgh Festival, in The Restaurant, the Maltings Concert Hall, arranger Nigel Luckhurst (?)
Lectures:
Turner off the East Coast and in East Anglia given by Eric Shanes in the Jubilee Hall;
Over for the Lord - A history of herring fishing in East Anglia given by David Butcher in the Jubilee Hall;
A Ramble with Percy Grainger - a recital/lecture given by Ronald Stevenson (piano) in the Jubilee Hall;
James Blades - Then and Now: On Becoming a Professional given in the Aldeburgh Cinema.
Photographs:
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) with the cast of Oedipus Rex including Peter Pears who sung the title role, at the Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels, 29 May 1952, photographed by Henri Vermeulen;
Sir William Walton, photographed by Christina Burton;
Elizabeth Maconchy, photographed by John Villanis;
Britten-Pears School Scrapbook 1981: 1) Josef Gingold with violinist Gregory Rogers, 2) Pierre Fournier with cellist Lionel Handy, 3) Peter Pears with baritone Brian Bannatyne-Scott, 4) Galina Vishnevskaye with soprano Joan Rodgers, 5) William Primrose (1904-1982) with violist Eric Shumski, 6) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf with tenor Stanley Warren, photographed by Nigel Luckhurst;
Nancy Evans as Polly Peachum and Peter Pears as Macbeth in the original English Opera Group production of Britten's The Beggar's Opera, Cambridge Arts Theatre, May 1948, photographed by Angus McBean;
The Beggar's Opera, for the Benefit of Mr Walker - a ticket by William Hogarth;
The first page of Britten's ink manuscript fair copy of the March from Three Divertimenti (1936), reproduced by permission of the Executors of the Britten Estate;
Marion Tait and David Ashmole in David Bintley's ballet Night Moves, photographed by Lesle E. Spatt;
Yolanda Sonnabend's costume design for Kenneth MacMillan's ballet Gloriana;
Imogen Holst at a chamber music rehearsal in Aldeburgh Parish Church during the 1978 Festival, photographer unspecified;
Red House Swimming Pool (oil 30" x 60") by Mary Potter;
Bronze Bust (1982) of the Dowager Countess of Cranbrook by Frances Baruch, brief note by Peter Pears;
Mary Potter (1900-1981) at Red Studio in 1979, photographed by Nigel Luckhurst;
Rose Grainger with her son Percy (aged about thirteen or fourteen) shortly after their arrival in Europe, photographer unspecified;
Hugues Cuénod at the Britten-Pears School during the 1980 French Song course, photographed by Jack Phipps;
The statue of James Joyce (1882-1941) in Zurich, photographed by Fritz Senn.
1 volume
Bound into a volume which includes the years 1979-1982; 18.5 x 24.5cm with pencil annotations.
Master copy (bound volume)
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