Growing up out on the farm we had to get along to make our own fun. My sisters can catch and throw a baseball. I can sing every male part in "The Sound of Music".
Wonderful stuff!! As for the Trapps, folks forget that they were very fine musicians who played an important role in the early music movement. And they were principled people who wouldn’t bow to tyranny. More from Salzburg please!!! Thanks!!!
I blush to write that during our two days in Salzburg last September, we gave over the Sunday afternoon to a Sound of Music Tour. (In mitigation, I note that we had my three daughters, all in their early 40s, with us, and they were psyched to do it.) The tour started off at the Mirabell Palace and the troll garden. Then we all got in a large minivan and were taken to various places where scenes in the movie were filmed. It included a nice drive through the hills outside the city.
As he drove the driver kept playing songs from the movie soundtrack, expecting us all to sing along. But my daughters, each of whom sings beautifully, wouldn’t sing at all, out of dudgeon, because the driver had been presumptuously and offensively handsy with the daughter who was sitting up front next to him. On our way back to Munich by way of the Chiemsee, though, they sang enthusiastically in close harmony. It was a good time.
Growing up out on the farm we had to get along to make our own fun. My sisters can catch and throw a baseball. I can sing every male part in "The Sound of Music".
Norwegians in Minnesota do the same thing at red lights, even when it looks like a ghost town.
Wonderful stuff!! As for the Trapps, folks forget that they were very fine musicians who played an important role in the early music movement. And they were principled people who wouldn’t bow to tyranny. More from Salzburg please!!! Thanks!!!
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A beautiful, refreshing, informative change of orientation. Thanks for taking us with you.
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I blush to write that during our two days in Salzburg last September, we gave over the Sunday afternoon to a Sound of Music Tour. (In mitigation, I note that we had my three daughters, all in their early 40s, with us, and they were psyched to do it.) The tour started off at the Mirabell Palace and the troll garden. Then we all got in a large minivan and were taken to various places where scenes in the movie were filmed. It included a nice drive through the hills outside the city.
As he drove the driver kept playing songs from the movie soundtrack, expecting us all to sing along. But my daughters, each of whom sings beautifully, wouldn’t sing at all, out of dudgeon, because the driver had been presumptuously and offensively handsy with the daughter who was sitting up front next to him. On our way back to Munich by way of the Chiemsee, though, they sang enthusiastically in close harmony. It was a good time.