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...Aldeburgh (June11-26). In a bleak antique setting, this remains the most determinedly regional of European festivals. Founded by Benjamin Britten, it has been the site of numerous Britten premieres, will this summer offer his new full-length opera, Midsummer Night's Dream...
...groan, and out ran a small boy wearing the head of a mouse. After him tumbled a lion, a camel, an owl and an ass. Their capers among the tombstones scarcely drew a second glance from the local citizens, for everybody recognized them as the star performers of the Aldeburgh Festival's current star attraction: Benjamin Britten's eagerly awaited new music drama, Noye's Fludde...
Composer Britten, a resident of Aldeburgh (pop. 2,689), likes to write for children-"They find my idiom easier than grownups do, and they don't argue with me. You never find a child saying, 'That note should be F natural.' " He recruited his 5-to 17-year-old chorus from three neighboring schools, gave them three months to learn their lines and six weeks to learn the music. What impressed him even more than their musical aptitude was their anxiety to please. Early in the rehearsal period, he spotted a small boy wearing a duck label...
King's Watchdog. Coke climbed fast-recorder of Norwich, M.P. for Aldeburgh, solicitor general and recorder of London, Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1594 Elizabeth raised him to be Her Majesty's Attorney General. In this post Coke's success was so great (he prosecuted both the traitorous Earl of Essex and the wretched Guy Fawkes) that James I made him Chief Justice of the Common Pleas-and overnight Coke became another...
...fled from Vienna in 1938 because he was part Jewish. On their wedding day last week, well-wishers by the thousands thronged the streets outside St. James's Palace for a glimpse of the young groom, who met his bride, an ambitious pianist, at a music festival at Aldeburgh. Others flocked to Kensington to mill about the streets outside the bride's own modest third-story flat and to coo at one another over the wonder of this sad-eyed Cinderella who was to marry a king's nephew. So great was the enthusiasm all around that...