Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Festival: BBC PromsProgramme
Performers
| City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | |
| Andris Nelsons | Conductor |
Tonight’s curtain-raiser is a scintillating overture
which kick-started a new era in Russian music. In
Calculus of the Nervous System, which has already
taken Vienna by storm, Emily Howard draws upon
her interest in the inner world of Ada Lovelace,
pioneering mathematician daughter of Lord Byron,
considered a prophet of the
computer age. Shostakovich
completed his titanic Seventh
Symphony as German armies
advanced deep into the
motherland. More recently it
has also been seen as one of
his exercises in tactful
subversion, depicting a
Leningrad whose intellectual
life Stalin had already
shattered.
which kick-started a new era in Russian music. In
Calculus of the Nervous System, which has already
taken Vienna by storm, Emily Howard draws upon
her interest in the inner world of Ada Lovelace,
pioneering mathematician daughter of Lord Byron,
considered a prophet of the
computer age. Shostakovich
completed his titanic Seventh
Symphony as German armies
advanced deep into the
motherland. More recently it
has also been seen as one of
his exercises in tactful
subversion, depicting a
Leningrad whose intellectual
life Stalin had already
shattered.
