Is The Sound of Music based on a true story? Discover how the real von Trapp family inspired the classic film, and what the ...

"The Sound of Music" echoed throughout American movie theaters for the first time on this day in history, March 2, 1965. It remains among America's favorite things some 60 years later. The film's ...

Kendall Myers is a Senior Author with Collider. As part of the TV and Movies Features team, she writes about some of the most popular releases before, during, and after they premiere. In three years, ...

Christoph Dallach’s book explores how Nazism, a postwar German identity crisis and anti-authoritarian youth movements spurred some of the most daring experiments of 1970s music. By Walker Mimms “We ...

Anette Hoffmann does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

No one has ever become world-famous by playing the oboe. Although the instrument has an integral role in the orchestral ecosystem—every ensemble tunes to its piercing A—the sweet-and-sour tang of its ...

The story is largely historically inaccurate. "The Sound of Music" centers on the von Trapps, a real Austrian family. The Broadway musical — which later inspired the 1965 film — was based on the ...

SALZBURG, Austria — Dhananjay Raval first saw The Sound of Music, as a young child. This summer, he traveled from his hometown of Ahmedabad in western India with his own adult son to fulfill a ...

(RNS) — When I was young, movie theaters were ornate palaces of popular culture that our family did not often visit. But, for “The Sound of Music,” we did. If I recall correctly, I even had to get a ...

This article was originally published on Moment Magazine. Music, at its core, is freedom. It cannot be caged by ideology or controlled by propaganda. The Nazis understood that, which is why they tried ...

This past fall, the Philadelphia Orchestra selected the German conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch as its new Music Director, succeeding the Italian Riccardo Muti. In so doing, Philadelphia was following in ...

I found the energy and the sense of fulfilment from music-making which every section of the orchestra conveyed irresistible. Holst’s The Planets showed, among many virtues, quite how strong German ...