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Salzburg Celebrates 50 Years of
The Sound of Music
| BY AMY LAUGHINGHOUSE |
Sound of Music Movie Promotional Photo © Twenteith Century Fox
f The Sound of Music is one of your looks more like the set of Waterworld ceived on her first night with the Von
favourite things, it’s time to head than a sunny ode to Austria’s Alps. The Trapp family in the film. As thunder
for the hills of Salzburg, Austria. sky is an ominous gray, and rain lashes crashes and lightening flashes, she com-
This year marks the 50th anniver- against the windows. It’s not quite the forts the kiddies by singing about rain-
Isary of the iconic musical, which welcome I’d hoped for, but somehow, it drops on roses and whiskers on kittens.
was filmed in this beautifully preserved seems appropriate.
baroque city. Well, big glasses of wheat beer and plates
This is exactly the sort of inclement full of schnitzel are all it takes to put a
Admittedly, on the day I arrive, Salzburg greeting Julie Andrews, as Maria, re- song in my heart. So, after my husband
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