Music for Advent
10th December 2020
Click on each of the pictures to listen to all 3 offerings!
A special celebration for the 205th birthday of
Ada Lovelace
born 10th December 1815
Mathematician and Computer Pioneer
PODCAST
“Women of Science & Music: 30 celebrations”
Episode 14: ADA BAB(BLE)
Dr Patricia Fara – Science historian, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College Cambridge
Laura Trevail – contextual artist and technologist from Essex
MUSIC
“Something More Than Mortal” by Cheryl Frances-Hoad
A setting of words by Ada Lovelace
Filmed at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
An award winning performance by Frances M Lynch
“ADA BAB(BLE)” by Frances M Lynch
….a short history of women in computing….
Recorded THIS WEEK by electric voice theatre singers
Sopranos – Peyee Chen & Frances M Lynch
Mezzo – Jenny Miller
Countertenor – David Sheppard
Tenor – Julian Stocker
Written for the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ada Lovelace
First performed at the Science Museum London