Word: sofia
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Composer Serge Rachmaninoff. He could write down music from memory when, as in most cases, there was no music to be had. By the time the Don Cossacks were transported to Bulgaria their chorus was so good that it was engaged to sing in a Greek Orthodox Church in Sofia. In 1923 it gave its first formal concert in Vienna, has since sung some 1.800 times throughout Europe, the British Isles, Australia...
Just the same, when the royal train arrived at Sofia, the route from the railway station to the Alexander Nevski Cathedral was guarded by a triple line of soldiery. Police ordered all windows of houses along the way closed...
When the marriage was first proposed Bulgarian officials mollified the Vatican by agreeing to consider the Roman Catholic wedding in Assisi the real wedding, promised that the Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox ceremony in Sofia would be merely a service of benediction. In Sofia last week the Patriarch Stefan talked differently...
After the ceremony Sofia erupted with Bulgar abandon. Public buildings were strung with electric bulbs. Men, women, children clambered like monkeys up the high iron grille of the palace gate, danced in the streets till dawn. Police did not allow the playing of the Fascist hymn "Giovinezza," but revelers sang themselves hoarse with "0 Sole Mio" in Bulgarian. At the palace it was announced, next day, that Their Majesties had slipped out a back door and danced unrecognized in the streets with their subjects...
...From his office in Sofia...