Shows

The Children Choir of Austria: The Sound of Music

Date: Aug 19 - 10:30 am

Venue: Shanghai Center Theater

The musical The Sound of Music tells the story of Maria, who takes a job as governess to a large family while she decides whether to become a nun. She falls in love with the children and their widowed father, Captain von Trapp. He is ordered to accept a commission in the German navy, but he opposes the Nazis. He and Maria decide to flee from Austria with the children. In the year 1966, when the Salzburger Musikschulwerk took measures to promote choirs, the teacher Hans Laimer started the "Kindersingschule Maxglan". The members came from the primary school for boys in Maxglan in Salzburg. On the occasion of the choir's first significant journey abroad, it was renamed "Salzburger Chorknaben". Some years later the school was also opened for girls and the choir boys followed this example and the choir was renamed "Salzburger Chorknaben und Chormaedchen" (Salzburger Boys Choir and Girls Choir).