Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Author, lecturer, and musician, and matriarch of the von Trapp family.
On the island
Eight records
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Karl Böhm
Because it is so joyous. If you are really In a lousy mood where you could spit, you play the Kleinachmusik and you are all right.
At the end of the concert, in my lap, It was a little puddle. I had cried so hard. I didn't notice when I did it, you know. It was so overwhelmingly beautiful. and the taffeta apron was spoilt.
O Isis und Osiris (from The Magic Flute)
I just talk about it the season it gets cool down my spine. It is so great. That glorious voice of his.
Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, 'Jupiter'
New Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini
is one of the most majestic works of Mozart, and it underlines what I said.
And that fits to our situation in life. You see, the Neugeriga means the curious one. And we certainly were curious what what is going to happen to us next.
In diesen heil'gen Hallen (from The Magic Flute)
And I hope I really hope that goose flesh will appear on everybody's. Better school splash appeared. Yeah. Yeah. Olive All over. At least it is so gorgeously beautiful.
The record number seven is called Ungedold, Impatience, and that is the subtitle of my Life. I always was, aim, and ever shall be impatient.
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046Favourite
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan
as a counterpoint to Mozart. See there's this beautiful, very, very emotional really. I don't want to use the word sentimental, you see, it is it is so full of heart. See and Bach is full of head. and both together are a great combination.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:38How well do you think you could endure loneliness on a desert island?
I just want to add, besides being what you said I am, I'm also a mother and a grandmother. I have ten children, twenty-nine grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
Presenter asks
2:56I believe you were born in a train, is that right?
Yes. My mother visited relatives, and then she thought, It looks as if it were uh going to be time. and got herself into a train on on her way to Vienna, where her husband expected her, on this particular train. And for reason I have forgotten, I couldn't wait that long. And so I appeared in the train, and the conductor had nine children himself, and knew all about it, and he played midwife.
Presenter asks
4:19At school, what did you want to be? What was your early ambition?
First of all, I wanted to have ten children. I didn't go into details how I would get them, you know. But I wanted to have ten children because I was alone and I suffered so much from being an only child. And that should not happen ever again, you see. So And I did get ten children.
The keepsakes
The book
A big selection of true, funny stories from well known people
I have a book ... which was a a big selection of true, funny stories from well known people. It got you into a good mood to see you smiled your way through the whole book.
The luxury
a three-hundred-year-old statue of the Madonna and Child
which emanates so much consolation and it's a happy making thing.
Presenter asks
9:30Where did you learn your music? Was it at school? Was it at home?
In Barcia you don't learn music. You sing, you listen, And if you are good enough you get lessons. But everybody sings, everybody listens. It used to be the daily life.
Presenter asks
12:48What happened next after that two years [at the convent]?
Well One day, at the end of the two years, I was called to see Reverend Mother Abbas, and that sounded not good. So I took a long trip detour to go to her room, thinking hard, just what does she know? And When I came to her room, she said, Maria, I want to know how much you have learned in our house. What is the most important thing in life? Now I was so relieved that this is all she wanted to know. because that I had really learned and so I said with great conviction The most important thing in life is to find out what is the will of God, and then go and do it. Even if it is hard? she asked. Even if it is hard, I said, just like this. And right there and then I was told. A certain navy captain A Bear on George von Trapp. had been There seeing the nuns this morning, asking whether they could lend him. Lent him. a teacher for one school year because one of his children had had a bad case of scarlet fever and had to be tutored at home. And all the nuns together decided to send me. I was heartbroken. I didn't want to go. I really wanted to stay. That was my place.
Presenter asks
27:23How many of you spoke English when you first went to America?
Some of the older children had a little basic school English, which doesn't help because I remember in one of the books it said a grandmother is lying under the sofa. I don't know why and I don't know what it did. But these sentences don't help much in conversational English, you know. I didn't know anything. Nothing whatsoever. I had to pick it up. That's the best way to to learn a language.
“The most important thing in life is to find out what is the will of God, and then go and do it.”
“I saw. How difficult it is to be very rich and very good. You are one or the other. And God took over, you see, and avoid it. The Getting Very Rich part. We never made it, you see, we always had to work, and it was good.”
“I always was, aim, and ever shall be impatient.”