The Proms Centre. Roger Wright became Controller of the Proms in October 2007, whilst retaining responsibility for BBC Radio 3 and taking up a broader role controlling the BBC's classical music output across all media. The 2008 season ran from 18 July to 13 September 2008. The BBC released details of the season slightly earlier than usual, on 9 April 2008. Composers whose anniversaries were marked include: The celebration of Stockhausen was centred on two large-scale concerts on 2 August 2008, and complementing Vaughan Williams's interest in folk music, the first Sunday was given over to a celebration of various aspects of
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