Codebreaker and mathematician Alan Turing is to be honoured with a new composition from the Pet Shop Boys as part of the BBC’s 2014 At the Proms season.

Neil Tenant and Chris Lowe have composed a new piece of music to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Alan Turing’s death.

The band will premiere ‘A Man From the Future’ in July with a full orchestra.

Turing who is acknowledged as the grandfather of modern computing was arrested in 1952 after he admitted having sexual relations with another man. He was chemically castrated and committed suicide two years later.

After a long campaign Turing was granted a posthumous pardon in December 2103. Later this year his story will be brought to the big screen in the feature film ‘The Imitation Game’ starring Benedict Cummberbatch and Keira Knightley.

‘A Man From the Future’ will not be the Pet Shop Boys first foray into the territory of classical and theatrical music. They previously created a new score for the 1925 Russian film ‘Battleship Potemkin’ and scored a ballet titled ‘The Most Incredible Thing’. In 2001 the band created the musical ‘Closer to Heaven’ which played in London’s West End.

OIP Staff