Thursday April 25 2019
Visitors to the Archive building will find a new display case in the foyer where they can view recent acquisitions to The Red House collections. Currently displayed are a selection of items we were delighted to receive in 2018. A number of our 2018 acquisitions have already proved useful to researchers in the reading room […]
Thursday April 11 2019
Dr Christopher Hilton, Head of Archive and Library, writes about a recent acquisition for the Britten-Pears Foundation Collection. Last June, the Britten-Pears Foundation was alerted to an original Britten score due to be auctioned in Paris. It formed part of a huge sale of music-related manuscripts spanning the period from the seventeenth century to the […]
Friday March 29 2019
Visitors to The Red House and its associated public areas may have spotted, in corners or inside display cases, small white objects with display screens and aerials, looking like old-fashioned mobile phones. You may never have noticed them: they’re not meant to be obtrusive. But these little devices are a key element in how we […]
Thursday March 28 2019
During the open season at The Red House the Britten-Pears Foundation’s Archive is open to the public. Once a month we select a box of interesting items from our collection to show to visitors, known as the ‘Box of Delights’. Anyone is welcome to see this box in the Archive, Tuesday to Friday at 2.30pm, […]
Monday February 4 2019
The Britten-Pears Foundation recently took an exciting step forwards in sharing our collections, joining forces with MINIM, a national database describing historic musical instruments. MINIM is co-ordinated by the Royal College of Music, the Horniman Museum, The Royal Academy of Music and the University of Edinburgh, and brings together information about over two hundred collections […]
Friday January 11 2019
Britten sponsored many musical groups, theatres, choirs and orchestras however his interests did not stop with music. The breadth of Britten’s interests spans from civil rights and freedoms, and campaigning against nuclear warfare, as well as the noise abatement of ice cream vans in Aldeburgh which disturbed his work. Britten’s sponsorships can give an insight […]
Monday November 26 2018
Over the years Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears acquired over 1,400 pieces of artwork. It was Pears who was the more avid collector of the two and in 1958 he purchased the exquisite bronze maquette of a figure from Auguste Rodin’s Les Bourgeois de Calais, 1884. Les Bourgeois de Calais is perhaps Rodin’s most famous […]
Thursday November 15 2018
The Holst Birthplace Museum in Cheltenham is currently holding an exhibition commemorating 100 years since Gustav Holst was director of music for the troops in Salonika and Constantinople. Imogen Holst’s papers, held at the Britten-Pears Foundation, include letters, diaries and notebooks of her father, some of which are on loan to the Museum as part […]
Saturday October 20 2018
During the open season at The Red House the Britten-Pears Foundation’s Archive is open to the public. Once a month we select a box of interesting items from our collection to show to visitors, known as the Box of Delights. Anyone is welcome to see this box in the Archive, 1–5pm Tuesday – Friday. This […]
Friday September 28 2018
During the open season at The Red House the Britten-Pears Foundation’s Archive is open to the public. Once a month we select a box of interesting items from our collection to show to visitors, known as the Box of Delights. Anyone is welcome to see this box in the Archive, 1–5pm Tuesday – Friday. This […]
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