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Emily’s Music Dump: Bruckner – Symphony No. 1 in C Minor – Barenboim

I’m up to Bruckner in my quest to review my entire music collection.

 

Anton Bruckner’s Symphony #1 – check it out:

 

Emily’s Music Dump: Bruckner Symphony No, 1 in C Minor

 

Bruckner – Symphony No. 1 C Minor, Daniel Barenboim – Conductor

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This Date In Manka Bros. History – May 30, 2007

This date in Manka Bros history May 30, 2007:

 

Gulag! A New Musical – based on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’ – opens.

 

The show closed forever after the first act.

 

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Gulag! A New Musical – May 30, 2007

 

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This Date In Manka Bros. History – May 27, 1932

This Date in Manka Bros Studio history May 27, 1932:

 

After the huge financial success of the Bulgarian juggling comedy ‘The Brothers Kielbasa,’ Khan Manka (Sr.) buys a 300 room, 100,000 square foot mansion on Long Island’s North Shore – dubbed ‘Kasa Kielbasa’

 

He would occasionally stay in the house whenever he had to visit the New York office.

 

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‘Kasa Kielbasa’
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This Date In Manka Bros. History – May 26, 1939

This Date in Manka Bros Studio history May 26, 1939:

 

King Boris III of Bulgaria visits Manka Bros. and has lunch with co-founder Simeon Manka.

 

The Manka brothers were, of course, born and raised in Bulgaria, coming to America in the early 1900s as teenagers.

 

No photographers were allowed in the room or at the studio at any time during the King’s visit, only a sketch artist.

 

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King Boris III of Bulgaria meets Simeon Manka of Manka Bros. Studios

 

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