6-22 June 1980
Programme leaflet providing the programme of performances, exhibitions, services, and events for the Thirty-third Aldeburgh Festival.
Performances of works by Britten included:
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Quatre Chansons Françaises, Temporal Variations (1936), Two Insect Pieces (1935), featured in Choir of St Thomas’ Church Fifth Avenue New York City concert (unspecified works), Choral Dances from ‘Gloriana’, ‘Britten’s theatre music’ featuring scenes from The Ascent of F6 and On the frontier, Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Aldeburgh Variations (1953) and Les Illuminations.
Peter Pears performed in: Publisher’s Choice: Faber Music concert, with the Linday Quartet to premiere John Tavener’s Six Abbasid Songs, there was also a full day of events to celebrate his 70th Birthday.
First performances at the festival:
Colin Matthews - String Quartet
Robin Holloway – Ode: for four winds and strings (commissioned by National Westminster Bank Ltd to mark Sir Peter Pears’ 70th Birthday) (assumed first performance)
Colin Matthews- Shadows in the Water for Tenor and Piano
Roger Smalley – Movement for flute and piano.
John Tavener – Six Abbasid Songs for three flutes, percussion, percussion, and tenor
Other highlights included:
Nigel Kennedy and Yitkin Seow
Janet Baker recitals
Göteborg Symphony Orchestra
Concert lecture on Holst from John Warrack featuring Steven Isserlis and Peter Evans.
Snape Safari, Concert Banquet and Gala for Peter Pears’ 70th
Talks, walks, and films across the festival.
Notification of future events such as a Maltings Market, the Summer Concert programme, details of catering for concert-goers and the Hesse fund, as well as the locations for the exhibitions, an advertisement for the Fourteenth 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 are two booking forms. The footnotes to the festival are not on a separate sheet this year but attached to the leaflet as a fold out feature.
2 documents (2 copies of booking form)
Archive
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PG-AF-1980-2
