The song says that this boy was poor and had nothing to offer the Christ Child but the rasping sound of his drum, which made ...

Do you love "The Sound of Music," the award-winning movie musical released in 1965? Well, you might love it even more when you learn the true story behind the Julie Andrews classic. Maria and the von ...

Sixty years after “The Sound of Music” came out, the hills of Salzburg, Austria are still alive with the sound of music. The movie musical, based on a true story, follows what happens when a charming ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. The Trapp family’s history is an immigrant success story ...

The 1965 film was based loosely on a 1949 book by Maria von Trapp. Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, had seven children. By The Associated Press Rosmarie Trapp, whose ...