His two-act work The Car Man (2000) may well be the highest-energy of all his creations. Something always to pay attention to in Bourne’s work – not always in a positive way – is his women, who affect different viewers very differently. In the work of very few other choreographers would this be a virtue; but it’s part of the naturalness Bourne’s work brings to the stage. The whole talk helped us to recognise that Mahler’s symphony, as Pasternak wrote of Pushkin’s poetry, is “full of things”. IV: Zimmermann, Mendelssohn, Dvořák at the Proms, Tuesday 4th AugustI have friends who listen to the Proms every evening at home.