Klaus Döring's Classical Music/Klaus Döring's Klassische Musik

When   The Sound of Music   debuted on cinema screens in April 1965, audiences fell hard and in huge numbers for the joyous celebration of music, dance, patriotism and familial and romantic love, propelling it to become one of the world’s most beloved movie musicals and turning the story of the von Trapp family into lore. Like many true stories filtered through Hollywood’s often overly sentimental lens,  The Sound of Music  on-screen differs significantly from the true tale of  Maria , the novice nun who takes a job as a governess in the Austrian household of the von Trapps, only to find herself falling in love with widower and retired naval captain Georg von Trapp and his seven children. The film stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer as Maria and Georg, and features enduring songs such as “Do-Re-Mi,” “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” and “Edelweiss.” It received five Academy Awards (including best picture)...

Real-life Maria Von Trapp teaches Julie Andrews how to yodel.  Picture: The Julie Andrews Hour/The Sound of Music Blu-Ray/YouTube By Maddy Shaw Roberts   How do you solve a problem like Maria? Well, how about a yodelling lesson, for starters… In 1965,  Julie Andrews  yodelled her way into all our hearts with her portrayal of Maria Von Trapp, governess to the seven  Von Trapp children  in  The Sound of Music. And it turns out, Andrews really got to meet the real Maria Von Trapp whose family’s story – somewhat loosely – inspired the hit film. In one scene, Maria helps the children put on a puppet show, and sings along to ‘The Lonely Goatherd’ (that’s the one that goes ‘High on a hill was a lonely goatherd, lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo’) as they perform. But according to real-life Maria, well, “There is yodelling, and then there’s…  yodelling .” During an episode of  The Julie Andrews Hour , a television variety series which ran for one sea...