Monday, June 30, 2008

The tills are alive: it&#39;s the <b>Von Trapp</b> hotel

The staff at the Von Trapp hotel size up a new arrival Rejoice all fans of kitsch singalonga second world war epics. The Von Trapp family home has finally been found. Previously just another villa in the both picturesque...

Source: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/06/the_tills_are_alive_its_the_vo.html

Sunday, June 29, 2008

The Story of the <b>Trapp Family</b> Singers

There are many differences in the story Baroness von Trapp tells and the Broadway version; it was interesting to look for them. The book also tells of their life after leaving Austria, including the difficulties they faced as performers ...

Source: http://loveofreading08.blogspot.com/2008/06/story-of-trapp-family-singers.html

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Crazy hotel news: Alcatraz and the <b>family Von Trapp</b>

The actual Von Trapp house also has a checkered past, as after the family vacated the residence in 1938 the Nazis took residence and SS Chief Henrich Himmler lived there until 1945. They say that awful past is another reason not to open ...

Source: http://travelpirates.blogspot.com/2008/06/crazy-hotel-news-alcatraz-and-family.html

<b>Von Trapp</b> Villa to Become Hotel

Do you know that the original von Trapp family villa just outside Salzburg is going to be turned into a hotel? No alterations will be made to the original building and once the transformation is complete, you’ll get a chance to stay at ...

Source: http://trompyx.com/von-trapp-villa-hotel/

Friday, June 27, 2008

Live performance Virtual Family Von Trapp @ SL5B cancelled

Live performance Virtual Family Von Trapp @ SL5B cancelled (b). * Disclaimer: if anybody wonders, this is NOT an official Linden Blogpost and I am NOT an official Linden. family von trapp, parody, photoshop, rant, sl5b.

Source: http://www.vintfalken.com/live-performance-virtual-family-von-trapp-sl5b-cancelled/

Thursday, June 26, 2008

This Reading Life: Childhood

... and I would sit in the back seat on the way to the beach or Florida with my paper sack of paperback books and read anything, Lassie stories, a book about the Von Trapp family, The Ghost of Windy Hill, all kinds of things. ...

Source: http://wendythewhip.livejournal.com/1770.html

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

from The Collected Business Correspondence of Ann Berrol Newman

Like the Von Trapp family fleeing Austria. So completely not my scene. Then I divorced him and did not have to worry about his underwear. Not that I have a phobia about travel. Many people travel. I just like being comfortable and, ...

Source: http://annienewman.typepad.com/anniesnyeats/2008/06/from-the-collected-business-correspondence-of-ann-berrol-newman.html

Spent the weekend in Amsterdam and last night in a hovel of a bed <b>...</b>

Though his included hiking through mountains pretending to be the von Trapp family and mine were "everyone was wearing orange." Saw the play that I've been looking forward to for a while (Alan Rickman was there, still stalking me after ...

Source: http://abroadin.blogspot.com/2008/06/spent-weekend-in-amsterdam-and-last.html

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Spotlight LO and fun pics...

It was the first time we, as a family, played as a band. My mom kept joking about us being the Von Trapp family!! LOL!! I hope to have a short bit up on YouTube later this week. Mr Gorgeous did a fabulous job preaching and playing the ...

Source: http://sallysangelworks.typepad.com/sallys_ponderings/2008/06/spotlight-lo-and-fun-pics.html

Monday, June 23, 2008

Mwah-Ha-Ha

"It's like the Von Trapp family," Amy said, joking. And then I pointed out that the Von Trapp family are alive and well, and producing CDs for Vision Forum. As if that isn't hilarious! Kal says she feels sick just looking at it.

Source: http://sam-is-mad.blogspot.com/2008/06/mwah-ha-ha.html

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Review of &quot;The Sound of Music&quot;

Her reverend mother gives her a mission to act self cert loans the governess to the family of Captain von Trapp, with seven children, for one month, while he is away. At first the children are quite mischievous, but she disciplines them ...

Source: http://mr-lucky17487.blogspot.com/2008/06/review-of-sound-of-music.html

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Andre&#39;s Choice

It can lift our spirits when we’re sad or lonely, when we’re leaving something so precious to us behind (remember the scene in The Sound of Music when Captain Von Trapp mesmerises his family with his rendition of Edelweiss? ...

Source: http://andrerieufan.com/2008/06/20/andres-choice.aspx

Around the Year with the <b>Trapp Family</b>

Pictured to the left is the real Maria von Trapp . . . . . . as in. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? and The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Music! In 1955, Maria Augusta Trapp—the real Maria portrayed in The Sound of ...

Source: http://catholicnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/06/around-year-with-trapp-family.html

Friday, June 20, 2008

At the Park and the Von Trapp Children

They came to do a concert at the CHEC Conference, and Mom got tickets for the family to go. It was great, except for the fact that we were sitting so far away that all of my pictures turned out dark. Here are the best ones: ...

Source: http://alwaysgivinglory.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/at-the-park-and-the-von-trapp-children/

Thursday, June 19, 2008

California Adventure Part I: SoCal

Since then (2003), he has kept the rest of the material with dreams of the Von Trapp Family persuasion. Well, I finally made it happen in time for the wedding, but I of course failed to take a picture. So if any of you cousins out there ...

Source: http://paradisefrost.blogspot.com/2008/06/california-adventure-part-i-socal.html

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Free e-text: Around the Year with the (<b>Von</b>)<b>Trapp Family</b>(Catholic <b>...</b>

EWTN text here. Also see selections from the original book at Around the Year with the Trapp Family. HT to Soutenus.

Source: http://happyheartsathome.blogspot.com/2008/06/free-e-text-around-year-with-vontrapp.html

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Home at Last!

The Von Trapp children were amazing and I was stunned at the beauty of their voices together. (And the only song they yodeled in was "The Lonely Goatherd" from the Sound of Music.) It was great to learn about the real family behind the ...

Source: http://gieddflock.blogspot.com/2008/06/home-at-last.html

Relaxation and Struggle - Ashley Burtch

Our campsite had views of the Austrian mountains (though we learned the Von Trapp family didn´t actually hike through the mountains - they pretended to go for a mountain hike and then hid on a train to Switzerland). ...

Source: http://www.ssu.ca/traveltheworld/2008/06/16/relaxation-and-struggle/

Monday, June 16, 2008

At the Park and the <b>Von Trapp</b> Children

The came home, we ate pizza (!!!), and then we all went to hear the Colorado Wranglers and the Von Trapp Children sing. They came to do a concert at the CHEC Conference, and Mom got tickets for the family to go. ...

Source: http://alwaysgivinglory.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/at-the-park-and-the-von-trapp-children/

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Day 2

Next we went to find the Von Trapp Family Lodge. It's the lodge that belongs to the original Von Trapp family that the movie "Sound of Music" was based on. It's now a huge resort. We wandered around a bit and enjoyed the incredible view ...

Source: http://farmgirlinmd.blogspot.com/2008/06/day-2.html

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Go Whistle

There was a time when I was hoping we might be working towards a Von Trapp style family ensemble, but Mark has proved very disappointing in this respect. He is a competent whistler, but he refuses to accept the advice of his manager ...

Source: http://barristerbees.blogspot.com/2008/06/go-whistle.html

Friday, June 13, 2008

Idle American #270 (plus two &quot;repeats&quot; for two weeks following)

As Sister Maria sang with the von Trapp Family Singers (remember “Sound of Music?”), let’s just start at the very beginning, a very fine place to start…. I, a mere collegian, had just survived my freshman year. My summer aspiration was ...

Source: http://www.bytexas.com/2008/06/idle-american-270-plus-two-repeats-for.html

Saw (and heard) the Sound of Music

Blimey, the Von Trapp family singers got me singing the whole day. No wonder why everybody loves this aged film. Though the film wasn't in good quality like those we see in big screens nowadays, the storyline and the music presented in ...

Source: http://tishtashy.blogspot.com/2008/06/saw-and-heard-sound-of-music.html

Thursday, June 12, 2008

<b>von trapp family</b> tricksters.

alright. i am in salzburg, austria so naturally i tried climbing the trees where the von trapp family children climbed and swung from in the movie the sound of music. remember that part where they are waiting for their dad to come home ...

Source: http://arianabentz.blogspot.com/2008/06/von-trapp-family-tricksters.html

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

dreamy thoughts of salzburg and vienna

... tranquility of the parks, the mellifluous music, and woven into it all the stories of people of the past (think mozart, the von trapp family and so many more)... mmm i would soak up the atmosphere if i were there. sighs dreamily. ...

Source: http://mosaic-.blogspot.com/2008/06/dreamy-thoughts-of-salzburg-and-vienna.html

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

List Mania: Europe’s Top 6 Eating Experiences

I visited Salzburg to indulge a childhood whim to be a von Trapp for a day and stumbled over the Hotel Sacher almost by accident: it had a nice terrace overlooking the river, the old town, and, oh, a bridge made famous in The Sound of ...

Source: http://feeds.travelblog.viator.com/~r/ViatorTravelBlog/~3/309049542/

Monday, June 9, 2008

Shorties

Summer holidays they spent performing with one parent or the other. Discipline levels were high. "When you sang with Kate and Anna [Martha's aunt] you had to have your part dead right... It wasn't the Von Trapp family." ...

Source: http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/06/shorties_1495.html

Final Countdown: The Sound of Music

My mom was a fan of the movie, so much so that she always wanted to go to the Von Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. I don't know why she liked it so much. But I do know I just really enjoy watching it. It makes me happy. ...

Source: http://queencitysurvey.blogspot.com/2008/06/final-countdown-sound-of-music_07.html

Sunday, June 8, 2008

But I Could Have Told You, Vincent

Location-wise, Euro 2008 may have all the tweeness of a "Heidi" novel, the starchy haughtiness and death-by-cake of a Viennese coffee house or the Edelweiss-ing schlock of a Von Trapp family climbing every mountain to escape into ...

Source: http://alcudiapollensa.blogspot.com/2008/06/but-i-could-have-told-you-vincent.html

Saturday, June 7, 2008

AMERICA&#39;s 100 GREATEST MOVIES ( part 3 )

Phenomenally popular film adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical about the singing Von Trapp family and their escape from the Nazis. Andrews is Maria, a nun who becomes governess to the von Trapp family. ...

Source: http://movieobizz.blogspot.com/2008/06/americas-100-greatest-movies-part-3.html

Friday, June 6, 2008

Concert: Elizabeth <b>von Trapp</b>: the Sound of Music Continues: June <b>...</b>

Inspired by her father Werner von Trapp's guitar playing and singing (he was called "Kurt" in the movie), Elisabeth has carried on the legacy of the internationally renowned Trapp Family Singers. She began taking piano lessons when she ...

Source: http://www.ctucc.org/events.php?event=1819

Biographies

Joni by Joni Eareckson; Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Trapp; So Help Me God by Roy Moore; Love Letters from Cell 92: The Correspondence of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Maria von Wedemeyer; Ten Peas in a Pod by Arnold Pent III ...

Source: http://inpursuit-ana.blogspot.com/2008/06/biographies.html

Thursday, June 5, 2008

The Sound of Music in Salzburg

From early years on, I was exposed to watching Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic, “The Sound of Music” which was based on true to life story of the Von Trapp family in Salzburg. I hope to visit the place anytime soon, to see snow and ...

Source: http://pechonjr.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/the-sound-of-music-in-salzburg/

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Bar and Patio Guide: Yonge Street Downtown

The elegant resto looks like a room in the Von Trapp family mansion (sans the singing Austrians) and if you think choosing a Democratic Party nominee sounds hard, try ordering from a menu with an entire page on mussels alone! ...

Source: http://sivankeren.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/bar-and-patio-guide-yonge-street-downtown/

Lindsey Schafer Pankey

Elizabeth von Trapp Walker officiating. Interment will follow in Rosemont Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 pm Thursday at Wright Funeral Home, Franklin, and suggests memorials be made to the American Juvenile ...

Source: http://journeyoflife.goof.com/articles/2008/06/03/lindsey-schafer-pankey/

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

&quot;FRIDAY MOVIE SUGGESTION NIGHT&quot; PRESENTS&quot; THE SOUND OF MUSIC!

While certain liberties were undertaken for the film, Maria von Trapp is said to have loved the Broadway play, but she hated the movie. Inspired by a 1956 German film about the Trapp Family Singers, stage director Vincent Donohue ...

Source: http://michaelmanning.tv/blog/2008/05/friday-movie-suggestion-night-presents_30.html

Monday, June 2, 2008

The Sound Of Music (1965)

Maria teaches the children to sing, and through her, music is brought back into the hearts and home of the Von Trapp family. Unknowingly, Maria and Captain Von Trapp are falling helplessly in love, except there are two problems, ...

Source: http://www.rootforum1.com/showthread.php?tid=10750

The Real Sound of Music.

Anyway from here the discussion became really funny for me… my other housemate tells me that this movie is actually based on a true story about the von Trapp family and that the real family run away from Austria and migrated to Vermont, ...

Source: http://mswahili.org/blog/2008/05/31/the-real-sound-of-music/

Sunday, June 1, 2008

<b>Von Trapp Family</b> Villa: Home from The Sound of Music Opens as <b>...</b>

Fans of “The Sound of Music”– and there are many, as the flick is the third most successful of all time, bested only by “Gone With the Wind” and “Star Wars”– will be happy to learn that the von Trapp family’s house in Salzburg, ...

Source: http://traveler.fivestaralliance.com/index.php/2008/05/19/von-trapp-family-villa-home-from-the-sound-of-music-opens-as-hotel-salzburg/