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Here’s all you need to know about Prom 36 at the BBC Proms<\/a><\/strong> today, Friday 16 August, at London’s Royal Albert Hall<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p> Need more Proms? You’ll find everything you know about the brilliant 2024 programme in our comprehensive 2024 BBC Proms guide<\/a>. <\/strong>Dates, times, prices, performers and repertoire: we’ve got it all, both for the more than 70 Proms taking place at the Royal Albert Hall, and for other Proms taking place around the country – at Aberdeen, Belfast, Nottingham, Gateshead, Bristol and Newport. <\/p> Today’s Prom 36 <\/strong>opens with Salom\u00e9<\/em>, a vivid portrayal of the Biblical character by French composer Mel Bonis. The piece’s introduction and finale, both evoke a distant desert caravan, and the entire piece is richly atmospheric, relying on effects such as syncopations and glissandi<\/a><\/strong> to create an exotic atmosphere. Salom\u00e9 is, in this way, part of the school of late 19th and early 20th century music that evoked exotic, ‘Oriental’ atmospheres and landscapes – also present in pieces by the likes of Rimsky-Korsakov<\/a><\/strong> and Ravel<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>What’s on at the BBC Proms today?<\/h2>