The Sound of Music…….

It was and is my favorite movie…Don’t know how long it will continue to be…

The Academy Award Winning move, of 1965, is a 165 minute, the most popular movie musical of all time. It’s a heartwarming inspirational and true story based on the lives of the Trapp family singers. JULIE ANDREWS is Maria, a spirited, young Austrian Women studying to take her religious vows. Suspecting that Maria’s true calling may lie outside the convent, the mother superior arranges for her to leave the convent and become governess to the children of the autocratic widower, Baron Von Trapp. Bringing warmth and music to the strict household of the reserved former navel captain, Maria soon wins over the children and finally the Baron as well, in a gloriously rendered romance.

The others in the movie where, Charmian Carr, Nicholas Hammond, Heather Menzies, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, Kym Karath.

The songs are fabulous, kids marvelous. Every time music echoes our ears. It seems the family escaped to US where they started their own famous musical troop. Indeed inspiring…

The Sound of Music is based on Maria Von Trapp's autobiography The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Originally, the musical was to contain only actual music that had been sung by the Trapps in their concerts, plus one original song by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The talented songwriting duo balked at this, however, and eventually they were allowed to contribute the entire score. Set in 1938, The Sound of Music tells the story of Maria Rainer, a free-spirited nun who is hired by Captain George Von Trapp to care for his seven children. Although Captain Trapp is engaged to a wealthy socialite, he and Maria eventually fall in love and marry--but their happiness is soon shattered when the Nazis invade Austria.

According to some The Sound of Music is representative of conservative American cold war ideology of the 1960s more than of Austria in any particular period.

Whatever the movie is indeed fabulous….