![]() ![]() ![]() The musical selections included a series of four old German dances and the Augelletti che cantate, an aria for soprano from the Italian opera Rinaldo by Georg Handel, with a recorder and viola da gamba (stringed instrument) accompaniment that was especially pleasant. The ensemble included matriarch and mother Maria Augusta Trapp, four daughters (Agathe, Maria Franziska, Johanna and Martina), two sons (Werner and Johannes), plus two friends, Virginia Farri, soprano, and Donald Meissner, tenor, and Msr. The 90-minute performance was described as “flawless” with “voices that were fresh and true.” Knowing well the story of Baron Georg and Baroness Maria von Trapp and their children who fled Austria to escape Nazism in 1938 (the inspiration for the musical play and film The Sound of Music), I was quite surprised to learn of the family’s evening performance on Monday, Novemin Manitowoc.Īccording to Roy Valitchka of the Manitowoc Herald-Times on December 1, 1953, “an evening of joyous song was the reward” for those who crowded Lincoln High School auditorium to hear the Trapp Family Singers, America’s favorite musical family. ![]() Recently, while conducting local historical research on a 1950s reel of newspaper microfilm at the Lester Public Library in Two Rivers, I happened to notice an article on the world famous Trapp Family Singers and their appearance at the Lincoln High School auditorium in Manitowoc. ![]()
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