Aldeburgh Music promotes the Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, the Snape Proms, concert series at Easter and October, together with a year-round performance programme at Snape Maltings Concert Hall and other venues on the Snape site. The Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme – formerly known as the Britten–Pears School of Advanced Musical Studies – provides development opportunities for musicians early in their professional lives, between the ages of 18 and 25. Aldeburgh Young Musicians offers a programme of music mentoring for children from 8 to 18, who are of exceptional potential. Aldeburgh Education offers an annual programme of work involving the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1948 Theatre also housed productions. A list (incomplete) of participating productions includes: The most historically significant press notice that the event attracted was that of playwright and journalist Robert Kemp in the Edinburgh Evening News on 14 August 1948: 'Round the fringe of official Festival drama, there seems to be more private enterprise than before ... I am afraid some of us are not going to be at home during the evenings!' This is considered to be the origin of the phrase "fringe" to describe the event, and, by extension, fringe theatre in general. Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1948 The 1948 Edinburgh