Posted on 02/22/2014 3:32:40 PM PST by Borges
Maria von Trapp, whose family's story was told in The Sound of Music, has died.
She was the last surviving member of the musical family of seven brothers and sisters and passed away in her sleep at home in Vermont at the age of 99 on Tuesday, PEOPLE confirms.
Von Trapp, who was the second-eldest daughter, and her family fled their home in Austria to escape from the Nazis in the 1930s and eventually ended up in the U.S., where their story inspired a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical and the popular 1965 movie starring Julie Andrews.
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I appreciate your expansion on the topic. So this was a different woman from that same family also named Maria. Fine, but the idea that ANY WOMAN would have a face like that, and so incongruously perched atop a Swiss Miss get up remains, well, unsettling. Yes, I am being unserious here.
There was something called shape note singing, I believe, where the shape of the note told you whether the note was do or re, etc. Is that what your grandmother did?
Yea, I think that’s what it was called. Thank you a mystery is finally solved. This would have also been the method or a variant Maria Von Trapp used. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_note
Really, there is only one song from that movie that still tugs my heart...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l8t85khtIw
How about the Homer Simpson version.
Dough - The stuff that buys me beer
Ray - The guy who sells the beer
Me - The guy who drinks the beer
Far - The distance to my beer
So - I think I'll drink some beer
La - La La La La La La beer
Tea - No thanks, I'm drinking beer
And that will bring us back to.....*sees empty glass*....D'OH!
Yeah, thats where I cried.
Dammit! Why did you go do that?
No kids, no fancy costumes, jumping around dance routines...
Just a flower.
A simple flower.
Years ago, my soon-to-be wife and I were walking a trail in the mountains. I had a camera and took a picture of this beautiful, single, simple yellow flower.
I still have that picture, but my wife died a while past, 41 years old, still beautiful.
I don’t need a movie to make me cry.
A single flower can do it...
Sorry.
Count your blessings while you have them!
regards,
djf
Thank you.
May God bless your days too.
According to Lord Obama, she was fluent in Austrian.
I think the Language died with her. RIP
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