| In this article we're going to review one of the | | | | in a sense, it overshadowed the story.And if you |
| great musicals of our time, which is actually a true | | | | want to take irony to an even higher level, the |
| story, The Sound Of Music.The Sound Of Music is | | | | actual true musical highlight of The Sound Of |
| based on a very true a heroic story about the | | | | Music was not even a song sung by Andrews or |
| Von Trapp family. Briefly, since this article is really | | | | The Von Trapp Family themselves. It was a tune |
| about music and not history, the Von Trapp | | | | called "Climb Every Mountain" which was sung by |
| family lived in Austria just prior to World War II. | | | | the Mother Superior of the Convent that Maria |
| As Hitler took control of the country the family, | | | | came from. This song itself was probably one of |
| totally against Hitler's annexation, fled the country | | | | the greatest pieces of music ever written, sung |
| and eventually settled in the United States. They | | | | by a character who was hardly seen.Yes, the |
| were able to do this from the money they made | | | | story of how Maria wormed her way into the |
| as the Trapp Family Singers, and thus the focus | | | | hearts of the family, especially the Baron, played |
| of the musical.Before The Sound Of Music hit | | | | brilliantly by Christopher Plummer, was beautiful |
| Broadway with Mary Martin in the lead role that | | | | and heartwarming. To see a man who was so |
| was made popular by Julie Andrews, it was first | | | | against music in his home, because of the death |
| made into a very lavish movie in 1965. Julie | | | | of his first wife, transform into a man who made |
| Andrews had earlier gained her fame as Eliza | | | | music and Maria his life was enough to bring out |
| Doolittle in My Fair Lady and was a natural for the | | | | the tissues all by itself. Add to that the children |
| part of Maria in this musical.The words and music | | | | who so grew to love Maria for giving them a |
| were written by the one and only team of | | | | reason to smile again and you have a story that |
| Rogers and Hammerstein. The music in this | | | | you'd have to have the heart of a tree sloth not |
| production is some of the most popular music | | | | to love.Oh and yes, there are the great tunes like |
| ever written for a musical. During the period when | | | | the title track, "My Favorite Things," "Do-Re-Mi," |
| the movie was released there probably wasn't | | | | and of course the tear jerker "Edelweiss" which |
| one school spring concert production that didn't | | | | when the Baron tried to sing at the family's |
| feature songs from the movie.The great music | | | | farewell concert just before they defected, got all |
| may have, in a sense, done the story a | | | | choked up and Maria had to help him get through |
| disservice. The truth is, the story is indeed a | | | | it. Yeah, you had to be there.If you haven't seen |
| great one in itself, one of a family's fight for | | | | this great movie, please rent the DVD for a |
| freedom. And in most cases a movie based on | | | | weekend and watch it. Really watch it. It's one of |
| this theme would have been able to stand on its | | | | those rare treats that won't disappoint. |
| own merits. But the music was so fantastic that, | | | | |