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Here’s all you need to know about today’s concert at the BBC Proms 2024, taking place at the Royal Albert Hall<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p> Need more Proms? Head over to our bells-and-whistles 2024 BBC Proms guide<\/a><\/strong>. We’ve got information here on every 2024 Proms concert, plus all the performers, times, ticket prices and more. <\/p> So, what will you hear at the BBC Proms today? Tonight’s Prom is Prom 16 (Wednesday 31 July). It features a performance of a 2022 work by the Canadian composer Cassandra Miller. I cannot love without trembling<\/em> is a concerto<\/a><\/strong> for viola and orchestra. It’s a co-commission by <\/em>BBC Radio 3, the Brussels Philharmonic, Canada\u2019s National Arts Centre Orchestra, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.<\/p> Miller explains something of the genesis of the work on her website<\/a><\/strong>. ‘In the last year of her life, the French philosopher Simone Weil wrote in a letter to her friend Gustave Thibon, \u2018Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling (…) This concerto is about the basic human need to lament (…) I sought a metaphysical space in which to dream \u2013 a space of separation-connection-absence-presence \u2013 in the hope to lament and to dream together.’<\/p>What’s on at the BBC Proms today?<\/h2>