The Proms season ran from 13 July to 8 September. Early press coverage focused heavily on the fact that musical theatre star Michael Ball would be the central performer in a concert on 27 August and a concert of British film music on 14 July. This led to media accusations of "dumbing down", despite Kenyon's defence of the programme. Anniversaries marked in this Proms season included: The series also included an additional series of four Saturday matinee concerts at Cadogan Hall. The 2007 season was Kenyon's last season as controller of the BBC Proms, before he became managing director at the Barbican
The Last Night of Scheherazade The Last Night of Scheherazade The Last Night of Scheherazade () is a 1987 Soviet-Syrian children's fantasy film directed by Takhir Sabirov based on "One Thousand and One Nights". It is the last film of the trilogy, started with the films "New Tales of Scheherazade" and "And another night of Scheherazade". The heroes of the film are the shoemaker Maruf and the daughter of the Caliph, Esmagül, who despite falling in love with a young man, nevertheless forces him to fight for his own happiness. Full of impatience, the Caliph is eager to learn from Scheherezade what happened when cobbler