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. . . and Bushra El-Turk

It will also be a pleasure, and probably a relief, to get back to the festival’s venues

across the region, such as the churches at Orford and Blythburgh. The main venue,
Snape Maltings, makes an impressive, multi-hall centre these days, but the festival

was never meant to be rooted in one spot.

So much of what it represents now was foreseen by Britten and Pears when they
founded the festival with librettist Eric Crozier in 1948. Britten’s music will play a

significant part, as always, but is never dominant, not least because very little of his

output is awaiting rediscovery.