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	Aldeburgh Festival
		The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts was founded in 1948 by the composer Benjamin Britten, the singer Peter Pears and the writer-producer Eric Crozier.
		They centred their annual festival upon opera, but the Festival has evolved slowly over the years to encompass a wide range of music, performed year-round in a concert hall.
		Aldeburgh Music is the name of the organisation in charge of the Aldeburgh Festival.
	www.suffolktouristguide.com /Aldeburgh_Festival.asp (188 words)

	Aldeburgh
		Aldeburgh is a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England.
		The Aldeburgh Moot Hall is a timber-framed building has been used for council meetings for over 400 years, and it still is. It also houses the local museum.
		The Aldeburgh Festival was founded in 1948 by Benjamin Britten, Eric Crozier[?] and Peter Pears.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Aldeburgh.html (123 words)

	Aldeburgh - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Aldeburgh, town in Suffolk, England, on the North Sea.
		Aldeburgh Music Festival, annual music festival founded in 1948 by the composer Benjamin Britten, the singer Peter Pears, and the writer/producer...
		Britten, (Edward) Benjamin, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (1913-1976), British composer, whose operas are among the finest of the 20th century.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Aldeburgh.html (84 words)

	Aldeburgh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aldeburgh was a Parliamentary Borough from 1571, and returned two Members of Parliament, the right to vote being vested in the Freemen of the town.
		The beach at Aldeburgh was awarded the Blue flag rural beach award in 2005.
		Just south of the beach at Aldeburgh is Orford Ness, which can be reached by a track leading from Aldeburgh, which is often used as a camping place for motorhomes in the summer and also is popular with people sea fishing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aldeburgh (705 words)

	Aldeburgh Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Festival was founded in 1948 by the composer Benjamin Britten, the singer Peter Pears and the librettist Eric Crozier.
		The first festival was held from the 5 – 13 June 1948 and used the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall, a few doors away from Britten's house in Crabbe Street, as its main venue.
		The Festival's current Artistic Director is the composer Thomas Adès, appointed in 1999 aged 28.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aldeburgh_Festival (467 words)

	Aldeburgh Festival - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Aldeburgh Festival, annual festival of operas and other concerts established in 1948 at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England.
		Britain hosts more than 600 professional arts festivals each year, attracting more than 4 million visitors.
		Festivals and Feasts, in secular society, communal celebrations involving carefully planned programs, outpourings of respect, rejoicing, or high...
	encarta.msn.com /Aldeburgh_Festival.html (91 words)

	Aldeburgh Hotels \| accommodation - hotels in Aldeburgh Suffolk
		Aldeburgh is approximately 20 miles from Ipswich and 25 miles from Lowestoft.
		There are many places of interest in Aldeburgh with the famous Snape Maltings Concert Hall, opened as a venue for the Aldeburgh Festival, the brainchild of composer Benjamin Britten and tenor Peter Pears.
		To dial a number in Aldeburgh from outside the UK: dial the International Access Code of the country you are calling from - follow that by the Country Code for the country you are calling to (44 for the UK) - dial the local area code omitting the initial ‘0’ e.g.
	www.kayukay.co.uk /aldeburghhotels.html (818 words)

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		For those who appreciate excellent food and wine Aldeburgh is the perfect location for a break at any time of the year.
		Aldeburgh also has much to offer culturally, and the local area has excellent art, theatre and music scenes.
		The highlight is the Aldeburgh festival held every year offering classical music and opera which attracts visitors and enthusiasts from all over the world.
	www.aldeburgh-cragside.co.uk (204 words)

	Archive Special Collections - Aldeburgh Festival - brittenpears.org
		The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts was founded in 1948 by Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and the writer and producer Eric Crozier.
		On their return to England, the feasibility of an Aldeburgh Festival was considered further with local residents; the response was positive and a Festival Committee appointed.
		The first Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts was held from 5th to 13th June 1948 with a varied programme of choral, orchestral and chamber concerts, recitals, exhibitions and lectures and three performances of Britten’s opera Albert Herring.
	www.brittenpears.org /?page=research/archive/special/aldeburgh.html (761 words)

	Exaudi, Alfred Brendel, Aldeburgh Festival - Music - Review - New York Times
		The festival seems to be thriving under its current leadership, with the adventurous young British composer Thomas Adès as artistic director, the composer John Woolrich as his associate, and Jonathan Reekie as chief executive.
		The expanding Aldeburgh enterprise is now called Aldeburgh Music, to denote that the festival is transforming itself into a yearlong program of performances, residencies and training for young musicians and artists.
		To this end, Aldeburgh Music is in the midst of converting additional buildings from the old malting mill in Snape into a campus with studios, rehearsal rooms, galleries and social spaces.
	www.nytimes.com /2007/06/12/arts/music/12ades.html?ex=1339300800&en=20c7739b1d0627dd&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (986 words)

	Aldeburgh Festival gets the Silk Pearce touch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Festival supporters are always keen to receive the latest programme brochure, with many people collecting them along with other Festival memorabilia year after year.
		This year's design theme - for what will be the 59th Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts (9 to 25 June) - reinforces the idea that wherever you are in the world, your thoughts and plans for getting involved in the Festival are never far away.
		The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts was founded in 1948 by the composer Benjamin Britten, the tenor Peter Pears and the writer and producer Eric Crozier and is centred on the small east-coast fishing town in rural Suffolk.
	www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk /pooled/articles/BF_NEWSART/view.asp?Q=BF_NEWSART_192617 (678 words)

	East Anglia 24 - Aldeburgh, Suffolk - www.eastanglia24.co.uk
		Aldeburgh was the birth place of George Crabbe (in 1754).
		Composer Benjamin Britten had his home in Aldeburgh and formed the Aldeburgh Festival which includes the Proms at nearby Snape Maltings.
		Left: Aldeburgh's streets are littered with beautiful fisherman's cottages, many with Dutch gables.
	www.eastanglia24.co.uk /suffolk/a-z/aldeburgh.html (219 words)

	Classical Music News:: The Classical Source News:: Aldeburgh Music Announces Pierre-Laurent Aimard As Artistic Director ...
		Aldeburgh Music today announced that Pierre-Laurent Aimard will succeed Thomas Adès as Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival for three years with effect from 2009.
		Jonathan Reekie, Chief Executive of Aldeburgh Music said: "After an inspirational ten years with Thomas Adès at the helm, in our search for a replacement we were looking for an outstanding, original musician and programmer, who would both respect the Aldeburgh traditions but also stamp their mark on the Festival.
		The 2008 Aldeburgh Festival, Thomas Adès’ tenth festival as Artistic Director, opens on Friday 13th June with a new opera commissioned from Yannis Kyriakides.
	www.classicalsource.com /db_control/db_news.php?id=850 (510 words)

	Tuohy and Son
		Aldeburgh is a small coastal town on the East coast of England lying between the sea and the River Alde at Slaughden where there are two sailing clubs.
		Aldeburgh is ideally situated for keen walkers and bird watchers as there are many pleasant walks in the surrounding countryside and it is possible to walk along the beach to the RSPB Bird Reserve at Minsmere.
		The world famous Aldeburgh Music Festival, which attracts people from all over the country, is held at Snape Maltings, some four miles distant.
	www.tuohyandson.co.uk /aldeburgh.asp (151 words)

	Aldeburgh
		Aldeburgh is a quiet but popular seaside resort within easy reach of London, the South-East and the Midlands.
		A flourishing town, which developed after the prosperous medieval fishing and ship-building centre of Slaughden was destroyed by the sea, it is today best known for the brightly coloured fishing boats which line the shingle beach and the world-renowned Aldeburgh Festival, based at nearby Snape Maltings.
		There is excellent sailing on the River Alde and golfers are spoilt for choice with excellent courses at Thorpeness and Aldeburgh.
	www.thorpeness.co.uk /apartments_Aldeburgh.aspx (166 words)

	Britten's Aldeburgh Festival (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Near Aldeburgh, in Snape, is the famous concert hall "The Maltings." The hall got its name from its former use; it was previously a barley to malt processing plant.
		This was proven during the Festival in 1969, when it burned down.
		It was rebuilt in time for the 1970 Festival, with substantial improvements.
	www.its.caltech.edu /~tan/Britten/britald.html (167 words)

	Aldeburgh Festival (1)Britten, Shostakovitch: The Hallé, Mark Elder (conductor), Timothy Robinson (tenor), ...
		Aldeburgh Festival (1)Britten, Shostakovitch: The Hallé, Mark Elder (conductor), Timothy Robinson (tenor), Richard Watkin (horn) The Maltings, Snape, 10.6.06 (AO)
		Britten founded the Festival to provide an atmosphere in which the finest musicians could feel stimulated creatively and with another composer, Thomas Adès, as Artistic Director, the dynamism lives on.
		Furthermore, this performance at Aldeburgh is the first of many this summer – it scoops even its birthplace, the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, where the première of the full ballet production will be presented on June 28th.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /SandH/2006/Jan-Jun06/aldeburgh1006.htm (916 words)

	Aldeburgh
		Aldeburgh had to wait until the 19th Century fashion for beach and craze for sea air brought back visitors in quantity, establishing it as a popular resort.
		Aldeburgh’s strong local community shares activities and knowledge with the visitor, providing poetry and arts and craft residential courses.
		Another of Aldeburgh's claims to fame is one to sample at mealtimes.
	www.suffolktouristguide.com /Aldeburgh.asp (530 words)

	Aldeburgh Cinema
		The auditorium was built before 1920, the exhibition gallery and foyer are part of an 18th century house and opens onto a delightful walled garden of an earlier date.
		Once a year the cinema holds its annual Film Documentary Festival which in the past have included discussions with leading film makers The Cinema which is open all year, is one of the few independent cinemas still remaining in the country.
		Aldeburgh is in Suffolk on the East coast
	www.aldeburghcinema.co.uk (901 words)

	Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Aldeburgh 1995
		The cane-backed wooden chairs in Snape Maltings, the Aldeburgh Festival's acoustically miraculous concert hall, are exact copies of the seats at the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Germany.
		In other respects, too, Aldeburgh, founded by Benjamin Britten in 1948, resembles Bayreuth: it is the legacy of a strong-willed composer who wished to insure the authentic presentation of his works.
		The buoyant presence of Oliver Knussen, who directs the festival with the Britten specialist Steuart Bedford, has made all the difference: Aldeburgh is now a 20th-century music festival of wide scope and generous spirit.
	www.therestisnoise.com /2006/07/aldeburgh_1995.html (1142 words)

	On An Overgrown Path: Aldeburgh has always been about the new
		Thomas Adès is the Festival's artistic director, innovative programming is pulling in new audiences, traditional musical boundaries are disappearing, and an inspirational £14m ($28m) creative campus will make new music available to future generations.
		JR - Aldeburgh Music was founded by the composer Benjamin Britten and singer Peter Pears in 1948, when they set up a Festival based in their home town of Aldeburgh.
		Aldeburgh Music’s work with young artists, residencies, and developing new opera all feed in ideas and possibilities for the Festival.
	www.overgrownpath.com /2007/10/aldeburgh-has-always-been-about-new.html (1415 words)

	The Red House Tour - Aldeburgh Town - brittenpears.org
		The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts was founded in 1948 by Britten, Pears and the librettist and producer Eric Crozier in order to provide a base for the English Opera Group while enriching the life of the Suffolk town.
		The majority of concerts and events held during successive Aldeburgh Festivals took place in either the Jubilee Hall or Aldeburgh Parish Church until a dedicated concert hall was opened at Snape Maltings in 1967.
		Britten and Pears were actively involved in the Aldeburgh Festival performing in operas, concerts, recitals and other events, and also undertaking the artistic direction of the Festival.
	www.brittenpears.org /?page=about/redHouse/tour/aldeburgh.html (780 words)

	Colorado Britten Society-Concerts
		My final visit in the Aldeburgh seafront was to the famous Jubilee Hall, a unique and very important concert venue for early Aldeburgh Festivals and other concert gatherings in the early-mid twentieth century.
		My return to the UK in August was full of much excitement and anticipation not only about the prospect of returning to my native homeland, but also visiting a place that I'd read a lot about, saw many pictures of and had many discussions about.
		This was Aldeburgh and home of Benjamin Britten for most of his life.
	coloradobrittensociety.homestead.com /nl902aldeburgh.html (574 words)

	First person singular: the reticent festival - Telegraph
		The town itself is one of the last truly nice places in the country, and Snape Maltings (the festival's chief venue, five miles away) must be the most beautiful concert hall in Europe - in the evening light, the view it offers over the marshes seems to embody all the mystery of Englishness.
		He refuses to let the festival showcase his own music - this year, he is only playing the piano, once - and has seldom written anything for it.
		What Aldeburgh needs is a composer with some organic connection to the place and its folk.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/06/21/bmfps21.xml (778 words)

	festival
		Aldeburgh, Suffolk, seen from the beach on the shore of the North Sea.
		The Aldeburgh Festival in Aldeburgh, Suffolk on the North Sea coast of England, has been an annual affair since 1947, established by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears as a new vehicle for both Britten's and other contemporary composers' music.
		The festival was held in Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh and in several churches in the surrounding area from 1947 to 1967.
	www.positive-feedback.com /Issue14/festival.htm (4024 words)

	Aldeburgh Festivals - MusEd - British Council - Arts
		Aldeburgh Education works on a huge variety of innovative, original and inspiring projects all year round.
		Aldeburgh Education’s nationally recognised work and models have inspired several other communities to adopt a similar approach.
		Aldeburgh Education’s virtual arts centre, known as TAG, has brought together communities across the UK and Europe through online commissions, resources and specific exchange projects.
	www.britishcouncil.org /arts-music-education-mused-aldeburgh-festival.htm (333 words)

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