Rooted here Introduction Aldeburgh Parish Church George Crabbe Aldeburgh Festival Performances Memorial Window Britten’s Grave The Moot Hall Peter Grimes! The Freedom of Aldeburgh Crag House Crag House and the Aldeburgh Festival 1953 Flood Sea-baths and Thinking Walks Moving to the Red House Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall Early Days 1960 Extension Festival Cottage Peter Pears Gallery …
Welcome to the Red House Christopher Grogan The House Britten and Pears at Home The House Before Britten The House Collections Around the Site Old and New Britten’s Studio The Library and Collections The Gallery and Exhibition The Archive and Collections The Gardens Conservation and Restoration
Foreword Philip Rupprecht We’re Going Away There and Back The Kindness of Strangers Nicholas Clark Aaron Copland The Mayers (inc. Elizabeth Mayer, Beata Mayer) Albert Goldberg Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Serge Kousseviszky The Works An Illinois Snapshot: January 1940 Justin Vickers February House Thoughts from Abroad Paul Bunyan: Britten’s ‘American’ Opera Vicki P. Stroeher Peter Grimes: …
Foreword Colin Matthews Britten’s Indian Summer: What is ‘lateness’? The Red House The Late Years: a timeline Venice Creativity Undiminished Linda Hutcheon & Michael Hutcheon Horham Britten’s Late Circle Rita Thomson Rosamund Strode Colin Matthews Donald Mitchell What Went Wrong With Britten’s Health Dr Stephen Lock Wolfsgarten The Late Works
Introduction Why poetry? Mrs Britten W. H. Auden Walter de la Mare Peter Pears William Blake’s ‘The Tyger’ William Blake Edith Sitwell Praise We Great Men Visualisation: Screenshots of digital diagrams of the temporal relations between Britten’s songs and the lifetimes of his poets Winter Words Thomas Hardy The song cycles List of poets set
Foreword Sue Sanders Introduction Lucy Walker Edging towards Wolfenden Paul Kildea The Road to Decriminalisation Christopher Rogers Basil Dearden’s ‘Victim’ and the Call for Legal Reform Andrew Moor What Britten and Pears’ Letters Tell Us Nicholas Clark Four Productions Neil Bartlett Reflections on his four Britten production (see below) The Indecency of the Closet …