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Trapp familyAustrian singers. Maria Augusta Kutschera (1905–87), the family's best-known member, was an orphan and novitiate in a Benedictine convent in Salzburg. Later, as a governess, she won the hearts of the seven children of the widower Baron Georg von Trapp (1880?–1947) and of the baron himself. They married in 1927, had three children, and later began singing German and liturgical music under the Reverend Franz Wasner, with whom the family fled in 1938 from Nazi-dominated Austria to Italy, and finally to Stowe, Vt., U.S. They toured the world to great acclaim, disbanding in 1955. Their story was the subject of the musical The Sound of Music (1959; film, 1965). |
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| It tells the story of a young postulant, Maria, as she becomes a part of the musical von Trapp family. Profiling the MacDonalds in the November 19th Massachusetts News, journalist Isabel Lyman described the family--whose concert repertoire features bluegrass, gospel, and classical--as the Bay State's version of the von Trapp Family Singers of Sound of Music fame. And for little Gretel, youngest of the Trapp family brood, we rehearse a sound like the one you make over a cute baby or puppy who is unhappy. |
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