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Through the fall and winter months of the U.S. concert season, no group travels farther and gives more performances than the Trapp Family Singers (last season: 125 concerts from coast to coast). When summer comes, the Trapps retire to their 660-acre farm in the Green Mountains near Stowe, Vt. and let lovers of Bach, Palestrina and Vittoria come and sing with them...
Last week, some 60 devotees-teenagers to greybeards-from 17 states had arrived at the converted CCC barracks near the Trapp Farm for the first of four summer "Sing Weeks." They paid from $70 to $90 apiece for ten days' board & room and the chance to study church music and folk songs with the Trapps and their music director, Father Franz Wasner, who is also the family chaplain...
Afternoon classes in the recorder, an antique flute, are held by the Trapp girls. After supper, the campers do folk dances. When one youngster suggested going into Stowe for a movie one night last week, he was gently but firmly frowned down...
...Trapps, the camp is far more than a musical outing; it is their own family experiment in living. Since the death of Baron von Trapp in 1947, the experiment has been presided over by handsome Maria Augusta Trapp, a woman with the charm and will of a medieval matriarch...
Also, A. Hunter Dupree 2G, John H. Nixon 2G, Ingeborg Greeff 2G, Carol E. Marshall 2G. Kathleen H. Moss 3G, and Frank A. Trapp...