The true story, based on the real Maria's 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, hits many of the same notes. Like their fictional counterparts, the real von Trapps fled Austria after ...
"In the early 1940s, the von Trapp family toured the United States as the Trapp Family Singers before eventually settling in Stowe, Vermont, on an enchanted farm with sweeping mountain vistas ...
Do you love "The Sound of Music," the award-winning movie musical released in 1965? Well, you might love it even more when you learn the true story behind the Julie Andrews classic. Maria and the ...
After the Trapp Family Singers disbanded, Werner helped found the Community School of Music in Reading, Pennsylvania. Werner died in 2007 at the age of 91, leaving behind his wife of 58 years ...
Mary Martin, Lauri Peters and the rest of the child cast of the original 1959 stage show. It's 60 years since theatre audiences first heard The Sound of Music. The story of the Trapp Family ...
Her version was recorded by the famed Trapp Family Singers in 1955, and was later arranged in 1957 by Jack Halloran, a noted American composer and choral director. When the Harry Simeone Chorale ...