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

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...

... at London Underground station goes viral 2 September 2019, 14:26 Pianist and teenage opera singer go viral after impromptu performance on London Underground Credit: Dr K Boogie Woogie on YouTube > By Helena Asprou 0 When Elicia Palmer teamed up with a stranger to perform a beautiful rendition of the 1965 film classic, she probably had no idea she would become an Internet sensation... Originally from Grimsby, Elicia Palmer had been travelling through Tottenham Court Road underground station when she spotted a musician playing the station’s  public piano . Keen for a  duet , the  pianist  approached the  opera singer  and  cellist  to make his musical request – but at the time, the teen was unaware it was  Brendan Kavanagh , a well known concert pianist with a  YouTube  following of 844,000. Also known as Dr K, the pianist,...