The Proms at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport suggested "that the Proms was one of several big cultural events that many people did not feel comfortable attending" and advocated an increase in multicultural works and an effort to broaden the audience. Her comments received wide criticism in the musical world and media as being a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the Proms, with Gordon Brown even distancing himself from her remarks. In the 2009 season, which ran from 17 July to 12 September 2009, the total number of concerts reached 100 for the first time. The principal anniversary composers
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