In the year 1962 thirteen gifted Bulgarian instrumentalists united their talent in a joint artistic thinking driven by the magic of chamber music. Thus, the artistic road of one of the longest existing European chamber orchestras - The..
The year was 1961. One of the most significant events during that year and the whole of the 20th century was the first flight of man in space. His name was Yuri Gagarin and that same year he paid a visit to Bulgaria and was warmly..
“Before the Big Band was created original Bulgarian music was unheard of, I mean popular and dance music. Even the songs bands would sing in restaurants were performed in the original language, without translation. When the Big Band..
The poem you just heard is called The Road traveled and goes: I had a road I loved, I once had a road. One more step and it is at an end. The road is traveled… The voice belongs to poet Penyo Penev, whose life road ended when he was..
Bulgarians witnessed a great number of initiatives that were born after the April plenum of 1956 when the power in the Bulgarian Communist Party was seized by Todor Zhivkov. A green light was given to heavy industry that should provide work to..
“We were unveiling the State Theatre of Satire with Mayakovski’s the Bathhouse but we had no ending. On first night, we were all very worried – after all we were all young actors then. But I was very curious too. In fact I..
Strange as it may sound, even inside a one-party system there are power struggles – they do not take place above board, but employ backhanded behind-the-scenes maneuvering and intrigues. The first such steps within the Bulgarian Communist..
Ladies and gentlemen, comrades, The delegation appointed by the Bulgarian government and authorized by the Presidium of the National Assembly to take part at the conference in Warsaw aimed at securing peace and guaranteeing..
The official unveiling of the Danube Bridge between Russe (Bulgaria) and Giurgiu (Romania) is perhaps the biggest event in 1954. Its place in the history of the Balkans has become even more significant over the years - six decades later..
In 1953 Alexander Zhendov – a graphic artist, one of the “fathers” of Bulgarian political cartoons, author of many satires and feuilletons - died of cancer. Even though he was an uncontested authority among artists, no more than a..
Bulgaria mourns the loss of life in the crash of the passenger plane of the Azerbaijani airlines in Kazakhstan . This was written by Bulgaria's President..
In the Sofia region, residents of the capital's Dragalevtsi district, the villages of Kiliite, Simeonovo-Dragalevtsi and Yarema, and the villages of..
Bulgarians have set aside between 25 and 150 euros to surprise their loved ones with Christmas gifts, a BNT survey shows. Clothes and electronics are..
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