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The hills are alive with The Sound of Music in Salzburg,
Austria, the city where many scenes from the movie were
filmed. This year, the iconic musical celebrates 50 years
since it was first released.

and I deposit our suitcases at the newly Mozart, Salzburg’s other famous musi- think the film's soundtrack would be
refurbished Hotel Goldgasse, chosen for cal export, drank here? I choose to be- on everyone’s lips. Yet many Austrians
its superb location in Old Town and its lieve.) aren’t that hip to the Hollywood hype,
contemporary, music-themed décor, we says local guide Michaela Muhr, who
seek solace in Salzburg’s equivalent of a Speakers broadcast an eclectic selection takes us on a walking tour the next
pub. of tunes as we sip our brews, but there’s day. They tend to prefer an earlier Ger-
not a whisper from Julie Andrews. It’s a man-language film. And “Edelweiss?”
Soon, we’re bellied up to the bar at shame, as I’d love to hear a roomful of It’s not even a real Austrian folksong.
Zwettler’s, a friendly local hangout beer-swigging Salzburgers belting out Rodgers and Hammerstein, who wrote
where all manner of detritus adorns “Edelweiss.” the original Broadway musical, made it
the walls: skis, ice skates, deer antlers, up.
and plaques bearing the names of loyal With year-round Sound of Music tours
boozers, including “Wolfgang.” (Maybe and a SOM gala on October 17, you’d That’s the first of many epiphanies re-

64 Wine Dine & Travel Summer/Fall 2015