Friday May 31 2019
Visitors to the Britten-Pears Foundation Archive can view, in the foyer display case, an acquisition selected from those received during April. The display centres around the first performances of Britten’s Noye’s Fludde during the 1958 Aldeburgh Festival. In April the Archive was pleased to receive for its collections a copy of the 1958 Festival programme […]
Monday May 27 2019
This month’s box of delights is themed around Britten’s King of the May, Albert Herring. The opera Albert Herring was written in 1947, the year Britten moved from Snape to Aldeburgh. It often pays tribute to the Suffolk he knows as it mentions a number of familiar place names. The story takes place on May […]
Tuesday May 21 2019
The Britten-Pears Foundation Archive is not the first place that comes to mind when looking for stories of remarkable women, but in fact it holds papers from many women who were part of Britten and Pears’ circle of friends, which included some of the most notable musicians, artists and writers of their time. One of […]
Friday May 17 2019
After years of work undertaken by staff and volunteers, the cataloguing of Britten’s correspondence is finally complete. This is an amazing accomplishment that we are delighted to share with you. This project was created to tell us who Britten corresponded with, how many letters were sent, and what the date range was. In total, we […]
Monday April 29 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, […]
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 […]
Monday April 15 2019
Every month we highlight the gems from Britten and Pears’ book collection in their Library. Britten-Pears Foundation Librarian Nicholas Clark talks about the latest selection that celebrates April and the arrival of spring. ‘Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote…’ – General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Although Geoffrey Chaucer is one of the few poets […]
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, […]
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19 June 2019