2016年6月19日 星期日

How the River Thames was brought back from the dead; Aldeburgh Festival 2016: Piano in the Reeds

The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music. It takes place each June in the Aldeburgh area of Suffolk, centred on Snape Maltings Concert Hall.
Contents
1 History of the Aldeburgh Festival
2 The festival today
3 References
4 External links
History of the Aldeburgh Festival[edit]
The Festival was founded in 1948 by the composer Benjamin Britten, the singer Peter Pears and the librettist/producer Eric Crozier. Their work with the English Opera Group (which they had founded with designer John Piper in 1947) frequently took them away from home, and it was while they were on tour in Switzerland with Albert Herring and The Rape of Lucretia in August of that year, that Peter Pears said "Why not make our own Festival? ...
Aldeburgh Festival 2016: 10-26 June 17-year-old pianist Julian Trevelyan, an Aldeburgh Young Musician, plays the piece The Curlew from…
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How did they do it?

Sixty years ago, nothing could survive in the Thames – but today it is home…
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