This weekend the boys watched The Sound of Music for the first time. They have been learning "Do Re Mi" at school and were amazed that I knew all the variations (quick quiz: anyone else's mother make their siblings matching outfits so they could sing this song in public? No? Just us? Pity! It also helped that my father loves Julie Andrews so we saw the movie as often as it was available.). The boys kept wanting to sing along and learn all the parts, and I decided it was high time for them to watch the movie on their own. So, after church, we downloaded it from Amazon and set them up to watch.
And they LOVED it! I mean, they had lots of questions: what are nuns? What's wrong with climbing trees? What kind of a name is Gay-org? Who is Hitler and why is everyone waving to him? I thought their interest might flag after the fun songs were over, but they stayed glued to the screen the whole time. We had to pause after two hours to go to a friend's house, so they watched the last hour at home the next day. Their favorite part? The funny third place winner at the Salzburg festival who can't stop bowing! Their favorite song? "So Long, Farewell," though (How do you Solve a Problem Like) "Maria" is a close second. E was even willing to sit through the documentary that came along with our 50th anniversary edition download. Who knew it would tickle his five year old fancy so much?
I told them when "Edelweiss" came up that they would recognize that song because I have been singing it to them at night for years; it's one of my staples. But no, afterwards J said he had never heard it before at all...ouch! It's been great to have them singing the choruses all around the house for the past few days!
The husband thinks we should move on to West Side Story because it's more exciting, but I think it's too scary for my very, VERY tender-hearted duo, stylized fight scenes notwithstanding. Plus the ending of that one is so dark! I think maybe Oklahoma instead? Those songs are catchier anyway!
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