Maria von Trapp, daughter of Austrian baron Georg von Trapp, sang with children in front of her former home in Salzburg Thursday.
She is staying in the house for the first time since her family fled the Nazis in 1938.
The home will be opened as a hotel starting July 25. 'The Sound of Music,' written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, was based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, 'The Story of the Trapp Family Singers.'
Leonhard Foeger/Reuters
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July 25, 2008
AUSTRIA: Salzburg home of 'Sound of Music' family is now a hotel
SALZURG, Austria (The Christian Science Monitor, Boston), July 24, 2008:
Maria von Trapp, daughter of Austrian baron Georg von Trapp, sang with children in front of her former home in Salzburg Thursday.
She is staying in the house for the first time since her family fled the Nazis in 1938.
The home will be opened as a hotel starting July 25. 'The Sound of Music,' written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, was based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, 'The Story of the Trapp Family Singers.'
Leonhard Foeger/Reuters
Copyright © 2008 The Christian Science Monitor.
Maria von Trapp, daughter of Austrian baron Georg von Trapp, sang with children in front of her former home in Salzburg Thursday.
She is staying in the house for the first time since her family fled the Nazis in 1938.
The home will be opened as a hotel starting July 25. 'The Sound of Music,' written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, was based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, 'The Story of the Trapp Family Singers.'
Leonhard Foeger/Reuters
Copyright © 2008 The Christian Science Monitor.
