Discussing how the orchestra prepared, she said: “When we heard that incredibly sad news the evening before, suddenly the messages started pinging across everybody’s phones with my team saying, ‘Can we build something into the concert?’.
“Our friends at Birmingham Royal Ballet had a fabulous ballet called Black Sabbath which celebrated the great band.
“So we were on the phone saying, ‘Hey ballet friends, can you send us some music?’
“And they did. Yesterday morning the team jumped to it and just put in a quick rehearsal, and we built it into the set.”