History Note: Music at the Jubilee Hall

 FURTHER READING AND REFERENCES

Note these were all valid at the time of publication but online references might change.

 

REFERENCES- Books and Articles.

  1. Many online sources are available only through payment or subscription.

BPA. The two references are to correspondence available at the Britten Pears Archive in Aldeburgh.

Burton, N, & Dean, S. (2001). De Lara [Cohen], Isidore. Grove Music Online. (Online).

Chissell, J. (1976) “Shostakovich.” Times, 16 June 1976, p. 8 (Online). Available at The Times Digital Archive.

Cooke, M (1999) Britten and Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream in The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten (Cambridge Companions to Music, pp. 129-146). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Online).

Crozier, E (1949) The origin of the Aldeburgh Festival in Blythe R (ed) (1972) Aldeburgh Anthology, Aldeburgh, Snape Maltings Foundation, p8.

Davies, A (2016) A Room worthy of the Town, Leiston, Leiston Press Limited.

  1. M. (1952) “The Aldeburgh Festival.” The Musical Times, vol. 93, no. 1314, 1952, pp. 375–376. JSTOR, (Online).

Forster, E (1949) Looking Back on the First Aldeburgh Festival, reprinted in Blythe R (ed) (1972) Aldeburgh Anthology, Aldeburgh, Snape Maltings Foundation, p.11.

Gillies, M (2016) Sixty-fifth Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, Snape, Aldeburgh Music, p.188.

Hirst, A (2014) ‘Why do older people like to live in Aldeburgh?’ East Anglian Daily Times, 22 April 2014 (Online).

Goddard, Scott (1954). “Aldeburgh Festival.” The Musical Times, vol. 95, no. 1338, pp. 438–438. JSTOR, (Online).

Ipswich Journal (1890). “OPENING OF A JUBILEE HALL AT ALDEBURGH ON-SEA.” 22 February British Library Newspapers. (Online).

Ipswich Journal (1892). 30 July. British Library Newspapers (Online).

Ipswich Journal (1893). 30 Dec. British Library Newspapers (Online).

Ipswich Journal (1894) “ALDEBURGH.”  3 Mar. British Library Newspapers, (Online).

Ipswich Journal (1894). British Library Newspapers, 18 Aug (Online).

Jones, W (2009) The Life of Haydn, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp186-192.

Leppert, R (1992) ‘Sexual identity, death, and the family piano’, 19th-Century Music, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 105–28 [Online].

Mitchell D, Reed P and Cooke M (eds) (2004). Letters from a Life: Volume Three 1946-51, London, Faber& Faber 2004.

Morrison, R (1997) “At the court of King Ben.” Times, 11 June 1997, p. 33. The Times Digital Archive, (Online).

Tait, S (2003) “New model Aldeburgh to become year-long festival.” Times, 23 June 2003, p. 29. The Times Digital Archive, (Online).

Tempo (1951) “Notes and News.” No. 19, pp, 1–5. JSTOR, (Online). Available at www.jstor.org/stable/942753.

The Lute (1894). “CHURCH CHOIRS AND ORGANISTS”, 1 September. (Online).

The Musical Times (1925) ‘Music in the Provinces’ vol. 66, no. 989, 1925, pp. 645–646. JSTOR, (Online).

The Musical Times (1940) “Of This and That.”  vol. 81, no. 1165, 1940, pp. 110–111. JSTOR, (Online).

The Musical Times (1906) “Country and Colonial News.”  vol. 47, no. 755, 1906, pp. 55–57. JSTOR, (Online).

The Musical Times (1935), “Isidore De Lara.”  vol. 76, no. 1112, 1935, pp. 944–944. JSTOR, (Online).

REFERENCES- Databases, hyperlinks and websites.

Aldeburgh Bands (Online). Available at http://www.aldeburgh.oneplacestudy.org/general/bands/(Accessed 7 March 2021).

Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall Label | Releases (Online). Available at https://www.discogs.com/label/702279-Aldeburgh-Jubilee-Hall=. (Accessed 8    March 2021).

Big Sing, 2020 (Online). Available at https://www.big-sing.com/. (Accessed 12   March 2021).

BPA, 2021. (Online). Available at https://www.bpacatalogue.org/view/2036892 (Accessed 3 March 2021).

Curzon, Barenboim – Mozart – Double Concerto / Piano Concerto No. 27 / Sonata  (Online). Available at https://www.discogs.com/Curzon-Barenboim-Mozart-Double-Concerto-Piano-Concerto-No-27-Sonata-For-2-Pianos/release/8304716 (Accessed 3 March 2021).

Edward Fitzgerald, Suffolk Sea Phrases (Online). Available at https://archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/edward-fitzgerald-suffolk-sea-phrases-and-extracts-for-the-works-of-fitzgerald-by-charles-ganz. (Accessed 3 March 2021).

Facebook (Online). Available at

facebook.com/AldeburghJubileeHall/photos/jubilee-hall-ensemble-i-this-time-next-month-well-be-enjoying-jubilee-halls-bril/2243076015809124/

(Accessed 3 March 2021).

England, An Ode by Algernon Charles Swinburne)(Online). Available at.https://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/1072/england%2C-an-ode.html (Accessed 3 March 2021).

Grunberg, N. 2020 (Online).Available at https://snapemaltings.co.uk/concerts-history/aldeburgh-festival-memories/#event-performing-shostakovichs-last-work-with-his-widow-in-the-audience. (Accessed 3 March 2021).

History of Aldeburgh (Online). Available at https://www.aldeburghtowncouncil.co.uk/?page_id=319. (Accessed 3 March 2021).

I met her in the quiet lane (John Liptrot Hatton)(Online). Available at https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/I_met_her_in_the_quiet_lane_(John_Liptrot_Hatton). (Accessed 3 March 2021).

In Old Madrid (Trotere, Henry) (Online). Available at https://imslp.org/wiki/In_Old_Madrid. (Accessed 3 March 2021).

Jubilee Opera (Online). Available at http://www.jubileeopera.co.uk/(Accessed 3 March 2021).

KRAB-FM, Seattle – Programs: The John W Spellman Collection of Ethnic Music (Online). Available at http://www.krabarchive.com/programs/krab-john-w-spellman-collection.html. (Accessed 3 March 2021).

Megg Nicol (N D) (Online). Available at

http://www.meggnicol.co.uk/index.php/news-blog/the-drummer-boy-of-waterloo. (Accessed 2 March 2021).

Mstislav Rostropovich & Benjamin Britten at the 1961 Aldeburgh Festival   (Online). Available at https://testament.co.uk/product/mstislav-rostropovich-benjamin-britten-at-the-1961-aldeburgh-festival-2-cds-for-the-price-of-1-5/. (Accessed 12 March 2021).

ORAL HISTORY – ALDEBURGH VOICES (Online). Available at https://aldeburghoralhistory.weebly.com/. (Accessed 12 March 2021).

O ’tis sweet to live for Jesus (Online). Available at https://hymnary.org/text/o_tis_sweet_to_live_for_jesus. (Accessed 9 March 2021).

Pruslin S and Birtwistle H (1997) (Online). Available at https://snapemaltings.co.uk/concerts-history/aldeburgh-festival-memories/#event-birtwistle-and-pruslin-on-the-premiere-of-their-opera-punch-and-judy. (Accessed 11 March 2021).

Search (Online). Available at http://www.concertprogrammes.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/4205/ (Accessed 11 March 2021).

Songs of England (Scholes) – Test Piece  (Online). Available at https://brassbandresults.co.uk/pieces/songs-of-england-scholes/(Accessed 11 March 2021).

World Cat.2021 (Online). Available at https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=hotseries&q=se%3A%22Characteristic+dances+for+the+pianoforte.%22. (Accessed 3 March 2021).

  FURTHER READING.

Aldeburgh Festival Memories (2020) (Online). Available at https://snapemaltings.co.uk/concerts-history/aldeburgh-festival-memories (Accessed 18 March 2021.)

Atherton, David (2014). “Harrison Birtwistle at 80: The man who brought Panic ….” Saturday review. Times, 3 May 2014, p. 8 (Online). Available at The Times Digital Archive.

Bankes A and Reekie J (2009) New Aldeburgh Anthology, Woodbridge, The Boydell Press.

BPA 2021(Online). Available at https://www.bpacatalogue.org/view/2010758. (Accessed 21 March 2021). (This is correspondence in the BPA archive between Britten and the Jubilee Hall not available to read in March 2021 because of lockdown.)

Jubilee Hall (Online). Available at https://aldeburghjubileehall.co.uk/whats-on/. Accessed 14 March 2021.

Powell, N (2013), Benjamin Britten A Life for Music, London, Hutchinson.

Operas premiered at the Hall not discussed in other listed sources-all available at Grove Music online.

 Barkl, M., & Philpott, C. (2014, July 01). ‘Williamson, Malcolm’.

Burn, A. (2001). ‘Crosse, Gordon’.

Burn, A. (2001). ‘Gardner, John’.

Kennedy, M. (2002). ‘Bear, The’.

Nichols, R. (2002). ‘Dinner Engagement, A’.

Nichols, R. (2002). ‘Castaway’.

Speare, S. (2001). ‘Holt, Simon’.

 

 

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