{"id":5824,"date":"2011-11-22T15:12:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T04:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=5824"},"modified":"2011-11-22T15:12:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T04:12:26","slug":"benjamin-britten-picture-gallery-scenes-from-aldeborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=5824","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Britten picture gallery &#8211; scenes from Aldeborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5827\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5827\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5827\" title=\"1Aldeburgh beach - seagulls, cloud and cold waves. Utterly bleakJULY2011 008\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1Aldeburgh-beach-seagulls-cloud-and-cold-waves.-Utterly-bleakJULY2011-008-320x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beach at Aldeburgh - Britten swam here regularly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5828\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5828\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5828\" title=\"Entrance, The Red House, AldeburghJULY2011 068\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Entrance-The-Red-House-AldeburghJULY2011-068-180x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Red House - the home shared by Britten and Pears<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5829\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5829\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5829\" title=\"Moot Hall AldeburghJULY2011 013\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Moot-Hall-AldeburghJULY2011-013-320x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Moot Hall, Aldeborough, setting for the opening scene of Peter Grimes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5830\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5830 \" title=\"Graves of Britten, Holst, and Pears  JULY2011 030\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Graves-of-Britten-Holst-and-Pears-JULY2011-030-320x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graves of Britten and Pears, with Imogen Holst buried behind them. The inscription on her headstone reads: &quot;The heavenly spheres make music for us. All things join in the dance&quot;. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5825\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5825\" title=\"2Britten memorial sculpture by Maggi Hambling on the beach at Thorpeness JULY2011 002\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2Britten-memorial-sculpture-by-Maggi-Hambling-on-the-beach-at-Thorpeness-JULY2011-002-320x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;I hear those voices that will not be drowned&quot; Britten memorial sculpture by Maggi Hambling on the beach at Thorpeness.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"sls_format":[],"class_list":["post-5824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"deck":"","is_featured":false,"media_type":"standard","audio_embed":"","video_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Benjamin Britten picture gallery - scenes from Aldeborough - Sounds Like Sydney<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=5824\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Benjamin Britten picture gallery - scenes from Aldeborough - Sounds Like Sydney\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=5824\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sounds Like Sydney\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-11-22T04:12:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2Britten-memorial-sculpture-by-Maggi-Hambling-on-the-beach-at-Thorpeness-JULY2011-002-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soundslikesydney.com.au\\\/?p=5824#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soundslikesydney.com.au\\\/?p=5824\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soundslikesydney.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0a3852eddeb5f8e3971a7ee828b5176e\"},\"headline\":\"Benjamin Britten picture gallery &#8211; 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