Programme for the thirty-second 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 Ronald Blythe and Norman Scarfe, full production details and information relating to the lectures, exhibitions and other events.
Provisional dates for the Thirty-third Aldeburgh Festival: 6-22 June 1980.
Printer unspecified (Shenval Press, London and Harlow?).
Design Consultant for the Programme Book: Hugh Tempest-Radford.
Cover: Suffolk Miscellany 2 (1978) by Richard Chopping.
The vignettes interspersed throughout the programmes are by Isaac Johnson and from Excursions through Suffolk (1819) by Frederick Schoebel.
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, and the names of the performers and staff involved in the Festival. This year they included the English Chamber Orchestra, King's College Chamber Musical Society, the Snape Maltings Training Orchestra, the Chorus from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Dancers from the Ballet Rambert School, the English Symphony Orchestra and the Fires of London. There are two indexes of Artists' names and Music performed (with first performances marked with an asterisk) 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 programmes for Summer and Autumn at Snape Maltings 1979, Summer and Autumn at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies 1979, and notification of the dates for the 4th Benson & Hedges Festival (29 September-5 Oct 1979).
Programme price: Unspecified
Advertisements:
Benson and Hedges, Music Festival, Snape Maltings, 29 September-7 October 1979, with brief by-line by Peter Pears;
Sotheby's, Contact details;
Oxfrord University Press, Publications available;
Decca Record Company Limited, Decca and the Aldeburgh Festival 1979;
John Broadwood & Sons, Piano makers to kings, queens and composers since 1728
Mercury Theatre Colchester, A Complete Evening's Entertainment;
Faber Music and Faber & Faber, Faber Books on Music available at the Aldeburgh Bookshop and Faber Music available at the Aldeburgh Music Centre;
Olivia Fashions, Clothes for pleasure and leisure;
Colchester Institute of Higher Education, School of Music;
RCA Records and Cassettes, RCA Red Seal the seal of quality;
Wingfield Pianos, Maintain and restore quality instruments to the highest standards;
Vauxhall, Snape Marine Services and Snape Motor Company;
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publisher Ltd, Frank Bridge (1879-1941) new publications for the centenary year;
Anglia Television, Anglia - The Regional Television Service with the International Reputation;
Hurren of Aldeburgh, Clothing Store;
CBS Classical Division, ...and CBS, address to write to for list of recordings;
Grayson Travel Limited, For Festival Fly-aways...;
Britannia Building Society, Ipswich Head Office;
Ernst Eulenburg Ltd, Edition Eulenburg catalogue;
EMI, His Master's Voice, The Great Names are on HMV;
Aldeburgh Bookshop, Books, Maps and Guides, Stationery...;
Arnott & Calver, Auctioneers, Estate Agents, Surveyors and Valuers;
IBM United Kingdom, Flute Lesson drawn by Peter Logan
Steinway & Sons, Steinway the Piano of International Fame;
John & Arthur Beare, Dealers and repairers of fine violins, violas and cellos since 1892;
The Corn Exchange, Exhibition, Arts and Conference Centre;
Hansom Books, Monthly publications;
Aldringham Craft Market, Exhibition of Ceramics and Paintings;
The Golden Key Snape, Morning coffee, lunch and refreshments...;
Fisk's Clematis Nursery, Clematis Nursery opening hours and colour catalogue available;
Marks & Spencer, Marks' Penny Bazaar, support to this outstanding festival;
The Boydell Press, Publications available;
Snape Craft Shop & Art Gallery, The best of local crafts...;
East Anglian Printers Anglian Office Equipment LTD, Suppliers of Printing, Office Machines and Commercial Stationery wish Aldeburgh Festival continued success;
Pauls & Whites Ltd, A major group of companies serving brewers, farmers and the food industry...;
Peter Dominic, Very Special Wine Shop;
Deben Frames, Complete Picture Framing Service;
The Potters Wheel Walberswick, Potters' gallery, artists' gallery, print, garden and tea rooms;
Barclays Bank, We Provide 229 Financial Services...;
Aldeburgh Music Centre, Specialists in records and music of Benjamin Britten...;
Marryat Jackson Norris Ltd, Mechanical Services for the Snape Concert Hall;
O. W. Loeb & Company Ltd, For those wonderful German Wines;
Hubbards, Watchdog...You won't find a better deal anywhere;
East Anglian Securities Trust Limited, Locations of Banks;
Jersey Artists Ltd, Books from;
Lincoln Cathedral, Concert in aid of action Research for the Crippled Child;
Chelsea Rare Books, Will be at Aldeburgh from 8-24 June at the Fry Gallery;
DENT, The Music of Benjamin Britten and other publications available;
39 The Terrace Aldeburgh, Exhibition of Paintings by Robert Sadler;
The Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools, IAPS schools concert on 26 July in the Maltings;
Studio Schools Cambridge, Courses available;
Notcutts Nurseries, Catalogue available plus chance to win a voucher by identifying a song;
Musicians' Benevolent Fund, Kyung-Wha Chung writes about the Fund;
Moots Aldeburgh, Of Earth and elsewhere - exhibition of watercolours by Jonathan Fookes;
Blythburgh W.I Hall, Exhibition and Sale of Persian and Oriental Rugs;
Connie Winn, Paintings of Suffolk;
45 Park Road Aldeburgh, Exhibition of Paintings by Shirley Claridge;
Blickling Hall, Recital by Peter Pears and Osian Ellis (27 June);
Adnams Bitter, Recipe, Britain's finest traditional beer;
Omell Gallery London, East Anglian paintings by Hugh Boycott-Brown;
Aldeburgh Cinema, Flower Paintings and Drawings by Margaret Tarran;
Old Slaughter House Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by Burfoot and Armour-Chelu;
Yoxford Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by Edward Ardizzone...;
Benson & Hedges, Special Filter.
Articles:
Aldeburgh and the new school at Snape, by Susan Hill;
Frank Bridge: a memory, by Daphne Oliver;
The Medieval Imagination, by Ronald Blythe;
Leiston Abbey, by Norman Scarfe.
Exhibitions:
Aldeburgh:
Richard Chopping - a retrospective, in the Festival Gallery, The Suffolk, Aldeburgh, arranger unspecified;
Georg Ehrlich, An exhibition of sculptures, in Red House Garden, arranger unspecified;
Isaac Johnson, Surveyor, antiquarian, artist, in the Royal British Legion Hall, arranger unspecified.
Snape:
David Hockney, Prints, drawings and paintings, in the Recital Room, the Maltings, arranger unspecified;
Nigel Luckhurst, Photographs taken during the 1978 Festival, in Marland Gallery (North Side) the Maltings, (open to concert-goers only).
Lectures:
Opera in Question given by Jonathan Miller in the Jubilee Hall;
Flower-arranging given by Michael Goulding in the Jubilee Hall;
The Medieval and Renaissance Town I - The Physical City given by John Mundy in the Jubilee Hall;
The Medieval and Renaissance Town II - The Scocial City given by John Mundy in the Jubilee Hall.
Photographs:
Christopher Renshaw and Terry Etheridge with the chorus and dancers in rehearsal for the ball scene in Act III of Eugene Onegin, photographed by Nigel Luckhurst;
Restaurant, Luxor, April 1978 by David Hockney;
Two-piece reclining figure-Points (1969) by Henry Moore;
Frank Bridge as a young man, photographer unspecified;
Frank Bridge, probably off Friston, photographer unspecified;
Frank and Ethel Bridge with Marjorie Fass sitting on the running board of her Vauxhall, c. 1929, photographer unspecified;
Piers Dunkely, Frank Bridge, Marjorie Fass and Ethel Bridge at Beachy Head, c. 1937, photographer unspecified;
Daphne Oliver, Ethel Bridge and Marjorie Fass on Christmas Day 1936(?), photographer unspecified;
Peggy and Antonio Brosa, Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Mr and Mrs Basil Graves, Marjorie Fass and Ethel Bridge, photographer unspecified;
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Peter Pears, Imogen Holst and Sir Eugene Melville at the opening of the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies, photographed by East Anglian Daily Times;
The Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies, photographed by John Donat;
Cecil Aronowitz (1916-1978), photographed by Nigel Luckhurst;
John David Gathorne-Hardy, 4th Earl of Cranbrook (1900-1978), photographer unspecified;
Unveiling of the memorial stone to Benjamin Britten in Westminster Abbey on 21 November 1978, photographed by Nigel Luckhurst;
First lesson in composition, watercolour by Marjorie Fass, January 1925;
John Ireland (1879-1961), photographer unspecified;
Medieval flushwork showing the Host and Chalice at Charsfield in Suffolk, photographed by Ursula Hamilton-Paterson;
Cockerel by Georg Ehrlich, photographer unspecified;
Hen by Georg Ehrlich, photographer unspecified;
Sleeping Calf by Georg Ehrlich, photographer unspecified.
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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