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Free Music for Schools
10 brilliant composers have written 10 brand new songs for school children, to celebrate 10 years of the Friday Afternoons project...
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Meet the Snape Residency Artists
This year you can experience Residencies that explore electronic, jazz, opera, grime, karnatik, classical, psychedelia, early music, ambient, choral, pop, contemporary, folk, dance and site-specific music theatre.
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Insights into Stage and Production
We met with Fi Simpson, Stage and Production Manager, and Mel Howes, AV Technician, to talk about what happens behind the scenes in the Stage and Production team.
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Benjamin Britten
Find out more about our founder, the composer Benjamin Britten.
Peter Pears
Find out more about our founder, the singer Peter Pears.
Aldeburgh Festival
The Aldeburgh Festival has been a pilgrimage for lovers of classical music and culture since 1948...
Festival of New
Four years of mind-bending brilliance, in short videos to watch and share...
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Archive Treasures: 70th birthday presents by Hockney and Holst
The 33rd Aldeburgh Festival in 1980 marked the 70th birthday of Peter Pears. His birthday fell on the last day of the festival and a whole day of…
Archive Treasures: Slow train to Aldeburgh – Britten and Dr Beeching
James Callaghan, Roy Jenkins, Barbara Castle: the list of Ministers in Harold Wilson’s 1964-1970 Labour government in the UK includes many political…
Archive Treasures: Imogen Holst’s World War II scrapbooks and her émigré musician friends
For this month’s Archive treasures story we are going to delve again into Imogen Holst’s wonderful scrapbooks. Holst kept a series of large scrapbooks…