The Best Wrong Notes Ever
Dmitri Shostakovich's Ballet, the Age of Gold, is a witty and raucous farce, full of what conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen calls "the most skillfully-written wrong notes in the history of music." It's a Soviet take on the old good guys vs. bad guys story. The good guys are a hard-working Soviet soccer team. The bad guys are the greedy Western capitalists who try to exploit them. It's no surprise who wins in this delightful ballet by Shostakovich. In today's show, we'll hear highlights from a recent Proms concert in London.