8-25 June 1978
Programme leaflet providing the programme of performances, exhibitions, services, and events for the Thirty-first Aldeburgh Festival. Performances of Britten’s works included: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Production of Death in Venice, Quartet No.3 Op. 94, Suite on English Folk Tunes Op. 90, Hymn to St Cecilia Op.27, Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op. 22, and Noyes Fludde (in Orford Church).
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Other events included the first performances of Robin Holloway’s Willow Cycle, a revised version of Lennox Berkley’s Four Ronsard Sonnets, and the first European performance of Fricker’s Sinfonia for 17 wind instruments. A concert of poetry, prose and music featuring Princess Grace of Monaco, Rostropovich conducting the SMTO playing Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky. Peter Pears performed in concerts alongside Princess Grace of Monaco in the poetry evening, Ian Partridge, and Steuart Bedford, in Handel’s secular oratorio ‘L’Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato’ as well as Bach’s Singet dem Herrn, a concert of voice and piano with Murray Perahia (who did not end up performing), with Contrapuncti under the direction of Michael Lankester, with Ossian Ellis, as the voice of God in Noye’s Fludde, and in Suffolk Scenes. Pears also conducted the Voices and Wind concert. Notification of future events such as the first Festival of Flowers, the Summer Concert programme, details of refreshments and the Hesse fund, as well as the locations for the exhibitions, an advertisement for the Twelfth Annual Snape Antiques fair, details about the Britten Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies at Snape Maltings, and how to get membership for the Aldeburgh festival Association. In the folder there is also a booking form and a sheet containing the footnotes to the festival programme.
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