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The Aldeburgh Festival was duly launched in June 1948, with Albert Herring playing at the Jubilee Hall and Britten ’ s new cantata for tenor, chorus and orchestra, Saint Nicolas, in the Parish Church.
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Britten was also responsible, together with Pears and the librettist / producer Eric Crozier, for the founding of the Aldeburgh Festival, and the creation of Snape Maltings Concert Hall.
Britten wrote Albert Herring for the English Opera Group in 1947, and it was while on tour that Pears came up with the idea of mounting a Festival in the small Suffolk seaside town of Aldeburgh, six miles from Snape, where Britten had now moved to a house on Crag Path.
He composed his Cello Suites, Cello Symphony and Cello Sonata for Rostropovich, premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival.
By the 1960s, the Aldeburgh Festival was outgrowing its customary venues, and plans to build a new concert hall in Aldeburgh were not progressing, when redundant Victorian maltings buildings in the village of Snape, down the road from where Britten used to live, became available to hire.
The converted 830-seat Snape Maltings Concert Hall was opened by HM The Queen on the opening of the twentieth Aldeburgh Festival on 2 June 1967 and was immediately hailed as one of the best concert halls in the country.
At last the Aldeburgh Festival had a venue that could house larger orchestral works.
From the very start of the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, Britten appeared as a performer and conductor, frequently accompanying Pears.
Festival celebrations took place in Cardiff, Stratford-upon-Avon, Bath, Perth, Bournemouth, York, Aldeburgh, Inverness, Cheltenham, Oxford and elsewhere and there were touring exhibitions by land and sea.
* Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts – " 8 – 17 June
The internationally renowned Aldeburgh Festival of arts, which takes place at nearby Snape Maltings, was created in 1948 by the resident and acclaimed composer Benjamin Britten.
In 1948, along with Eric Crozier and Peter Pears, he founded the Aldeburgh Festival.
Outside the town, the Snape Maltings is the venue for the Aldeburgh Festival held every June.
* ITV Local Anglia's entertainment show All Angles on Aldeburgh Festival June 2008
* Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival
* The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music.
Why not have an Aldeburgh Festival ?” The English Opera Group would provide a core programme of opera productions, but the vision was soon widened to include readings of poetry, literature, drama, lectures and exhibitions of art.
However, the lack of a large venue was holding back the further development of the Festival until one of the largest mid-nineteenth century maltings in East Anglia, at Snape, a village just outside Aldeburgh, became available.
The new concert hall was opened by the Queen on 2 June 1967, at the start of the twentieth Aldeburgh Festival.
The new Concert Hall at Snape became the main focus for the Aldeburgh Festival, although performances continued to be held at all the former venues.
For the first six years of the Aldeburgh Festival, the joint Artistic Directors remained Britten, Pears and Crozier ; in 1955, Britten and Pears were in sole charge, then the following year they were joined by Imogen Holst, who remained a member of the Artistic Directorate until her death in 1984.
The organisation responsible for running the Aldeburgh Festival changed its name to Aldeburgh Music in 2006.
Aldeburgh and was
By 1850, Newson was a prosperous businessman and was able to build Alde House, a mansion on a hill behind Aldeburgh.
There was no school in Aldeburgh so Elizabeth learned the three Rs from her mother.
On 9 November 1908 she was elected mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in England.
She was born Millicent Garrett in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
Millicent Garrett was born on 11 June 1847 in Aldeburgh to Newson Garrett, a warehouse owner, and his wife Louise Dunnell.
In the 16th century, Aldeburgh was a leading port, and had a flourishing ship-building industry.
Aldeburgh was a Parliamentary Borough from 1571, and returned two Members of Parliament, the right to vote being vested in the Freemen of the town.
Aldeburgh was the first British town to elect a female mayor: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, in 1908.
The hall was restored and the external staircase and gable ends were rebuilt in 1854-5, under the direction of R. M. Phipson, the chief architect of the Diocese of Norwich, in which Aldeburgh then stood.
* The poet George Crabbe was born in Aldeburgh in 1754 and the town forms a loose basis for his poems The Village and The Borough.
* Annie Hall Cudlip the novelist was born in Aldeburgh in 1838.
* Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett ( 1847 – 1929 ), suffragist and feminist, was born in Aldeburgh.
Aldeburgh Carnival takes place annually in August, with a continuous history dating back to at least 1892 and possibly as far back as 1832 when " Ye Olde Marine Regatta " was mentioned.
The first festival was held from the 5 June 1948 to the 13 June 1948 and used the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall, a few doors away from Britten's house in Crabbe Street, as its main venue, with performances in other venues such as Aldeburgh's fifteenth-century church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
Aldeburgh and June
It takes place each June in the Aldeburgh area of Suffolk, centred on Snape Maltings Concert Hall.
* ITV Local Anglia's entertainment show All Angles on Aldeburgh Festival June 2008
* June 5-Opening of the first Aldeburgh Festival, founded by Benjamin Britten, Eric Crozier and Peter Pears.
Veteran composer Harrison Birtwistle produced a new opera, The Io Passion, which had its première in June at Snape Maltings as part of the Aldeburgh Festival.
It was premiered on 11 June 1960 at the Aldeburgh Festival, conducted by the composer and with set and costume designs by Carl Toms .< ref name = Grove >
It was first performed at Snape Maltings, near Aldeburgh, England, on 16 June 1973.
A calendar of events operate throughout the year from the June Festival and August Proms to guided river walks, boat trips, farmers markets and the Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival.
* ITV Local Anglia's entertainment show All Angles on Aldeburgh Festival June 2008
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