The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

by Trapp, Maria Augusta

• ISBN13: 9780060005771
• ISBN10: 0060005777
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-16
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family history. But much about the real-life woman and her family was left untold. Here, Baroness Maria Augusta Trapp tells in her own beautiful, simple words the extraordinary story of her romance with the baron, their escape from Nazi-occupied Austria, and their life in America. Now with photographs from the original edition.

Table of Contents

Part One
The Chapter Before the First	7	(2)
Just Loaned	9	(14)
Glories of the Past	23	(5)
``The Baron Doesn't Want It . . . .''	28	(8)
An Austrian Christmas	36	(12)
``God's Will Hath No Why''	48	(14)
Feasts in a Family	62	(14)
A Festival Summer and a Baby	76	(7)
Uncle Peter and His Handbook	83	(9)
An Operation, a Turtle, and a Long Distance Call	92	(6)
Aren't We Lucky!	98	(5)
``Never Again''	103	(4)
From Hobby to Profession	107	(6)
And the Lord Said to Abram . . .	113	(14)
Part Two
On the ``American Farmer''	127	(5)
The First Ten Years Are the Hardest	132	(9)
Getting Settled	141	(11)
Barbara	152	(6)
What Next?	158	(6)
In Sight of the Statue of Liberty	164	(7)
Learning New Ways	171	(7)
The Miracle	178	(7)
Merion	185	(11)
The Fly	196	(7)
Stowe in Vermont	203	(11)
A New Chapter	214	(8)
The End of a Perfect Stay	222	(6)
The New House	228	(18)
Concerts in Wartime	246	(7)
Trapp Family Music Camp	253	(18)
Snapshots of the Camp	271	(7)
Trapp Family Austrian Relief, Inc.	278	(10)
A Letter	288	(15)
The Memorable Year	303	(4)
Cor Unum	307