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After the tin violin I received a lot of other musical children’s toys. I had a number of mouth organs. Then I had a real small accordion with eight ‘bass’ types. With the accordion I grew to like music so much that in 1947 at the First World Youth Festival in Prague [today Czech Republic], a colleague and I recorded on a gramophone Rhapsody ‘Vardar’ by Pancho Vladigerov [Pancho Vladigerov (1899-1978): a famous Bulgarian composer, musical pedagogue and pianist. Several works of his such as the Bulgarian Rhapsody ‘Vardar’ are considered to be an emblem of Bulgarian music] in transcription with two accordions. I also have a photo with that accordion when I was seven or eight years old. I’m dressed in white sailor’s clothes. At that time I was in the third junior high school grade. At that time in Greece children started school when they were five years old.
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Bulgaria
Interview
Jul Efraim Levi