Friday July 12 2019
The Britten–Pears Foundation is looking to appoint an Archive Trainee with a passion for archives and collections to support the front line work of the current archive and library staff. The post will include overseeing our Reading Room and dealing with enquiries from researchers, as well as project work in preservation, digitisation and description of […]
Tuesday July 9 2019
The Britten-Pears Foundation has loaned 17 photographs from its collections to the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate for their Seaside: Photographed exhibition. This exhibition examines the relationship between photographers, photography and the British seaside from the 1850s to the present day and includes images of crashing waves, day trippers, holiday makers, seaside communities and hotels. […]
Friday June 21 2019
This month’s featured acquisition relates to the English Opera Group (later the English Music Theatre Company) and recently recorded oral history interviews with three former members; stage manager John Richardson, singer Michael Bauer, and stage and general manager David Patmore. In Spring this year a trainee archivist at University College London undertook an oral history […]
Monday June 17 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 display for June. Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth… Alfred Tennyson, The Kraken Tennyson’s brooding […]
Thursday June 6 2019
Lucy Walker explores our events and exhibitions that will complement this year’s Aldeburgh Festival.
Tuesday June 4 2019
We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded over £2,000 from the Tesco Bags of Help Grant Scheme. Voting ran in their Aldeburgh, Saxmundham and Diss stores throughout March and April. Benjamin Britten wanted music to engage with and be enjoyed by all, especially children. This grant will go towards developing or Mini Music […]
Friday May 24 2019
The Britten-Pears Foundation and Snape Maltings are continuing to plan for the proposed merger of our two charities next year. The news has been positively received and we will keep you informed as our ideas develop. It is a very exciting time for us as sister charities. There has been considerable discussion about the proposed […]
Monday May 20 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 the month of May. Now the bright morning star, day’s harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flow’ry May, who from her green lap […]
Thursday April 25 2019
Soprano Heather Harper holds a significant place in the history of Britten’s music. Perhaps best known for accepting at short notice in 1962 the part in War Requiem that was originally written for Galina Visnevskaya, she maintained from then on a lengthy association with the composer, with Aldeburgh and also with the Britten–Pears School. The […]
Friday April 5 2019
Peter Collymore, who designed and oversaw the building of the Britten–Pears Library has died, aged nearly 90. Peter and his sister Gill, who survives him, had a lifelong friendship with Britten and Pears, and Peter’s connection with the Britten-Pears Foundation is quite literally written in stone. Peter was the son of Eric Collymore, Physics Master […]
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29 June 2021