Wednesday December 6 2017
Every month, a member of staff from the Britten-Pears Foundation choose their favourite item or object from the collections. This month Abigail Williams, our Archive Graduate Trainee contributes: ‘Nigel Luckhurst’s photograph of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Peter Pears’ hands clasped illustrates a friendship between the two formed late in their lives, glimpses of which can […]
Monday November 6 2017
Every month, a member of staff from the Britten-Pears Foundation choose their favourite item or object from the collections. This month Head of Archive and Library Dr Christopher Hilton talks about his personal connection to Britten’s photograph of the composer Frank Bridge. ‘One photograph stands on the bookshelf in Britten’s studio: Frank Bridge peers out […]
Thursday October 12 2017
Every month, a member of staff from the Britten-Pears Foundation choose their favourite item or object from the collections. This month Charlotte Flight, Front of House and Communications Assistant chooses Tired Horse by Georg Ehrlich as her object of the month. ‘Georg Ehrlich’s Tired Horse sits proudly in the Library and is a favourite of mine and […]
Monday September 4 2017
Every month, a member of staff from the Britten-Pears Foundation choose their favourite item or object from the collections. This month Collections and Learning Curator, Joe Carr chooses Two Boats and a Lightship embroidery by John Craske as his object of the month. ‘This object is an important piece of local and social history and […]
Friday August 11 2017
Every month, a member of staff from the Britten-Pears Foundation choose their favourite item or object from the collections. This month Head of Finance Keith Nicholls selects the painting Footballers by Diana Cumming. He says: ‘This large painting was purchased by Peter Pears in 1954 and it was created for the previous year’s “Football and […]
Thursday July 6 2017
Every month, a member of staff from the Britten-Pears Foundation chooses their favourite item or object from the collections. This month Company Secretary Amanda Arnold selects the Noye’s Fludde display of memorabilia in The Gallery: ‘Around 1966, in my second year at secondary school, I took part in my first major musical event, a staged production […]
Saturday June 17 2017
Every month, a member of staff from the Britten-Pears Foundation chooses their favourite item or object from the archive. This month features Archivist Judith Ratcliffe who chose a set model for the 1965 production of Britten’s opera for children The Little Sweep, designed by Terence Emery. “This item relates to the stage history of Britten’s […]
Wednesday May 10 2017
Every month, a member of staff from the Britten-Pears Foundation chooses their favourite item or object from the archive. This month features Conservation Assistant Rachael Welsh: 18th century 8 day English Striking Longcase clock “As the Conservation Assistant it is very difficult to choose just ‘one’ object from the collection as I help look after […]
Wednesday April 19 2017
Every month, a member of staff from the Britten-Pears Foundation chooses their favourite item or object from the archive. This month features Dr Lucy Walker, Director of Public Programming and Learning: The Mill, Alderholt (1943) by John Craxton (1922-2009) There are 13 paintings by John Craxton in the very extensive Red House collection (over all about […]
Thursday March 2 2017
Britten’s concert grand. Every month, a member of staff from the Britten-Pears Foundation chooses their favourite item or object from the archive. This month features IT Manager, Paul Cook: “There are few objects within our extensive collections that can claim as much prestige as the piano situated here on site, in the Library. It’s a […]
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17 June 2019