article_snippet: After seven children’d sung a selection of medieval church music at the Salzburg Festival in 1936, the Von Trapps were invited abroad on tours.
article_snippet: the Von Trapps sang before Queen Mary in London and entertained the Pope at the Vatican.
article_snippet: The five eldest Osmonds (pictured in 1972) are said to have begged to be able to play the Von Trapp children in the famous film .
article_snippet: By contrast, the five eldest Osmonds begged to play the Von Trapp children.
article_snippet: the Von Trapp children were rejected, thank God, though Marie Osmond was to strum a guitar and play Maria on stage in the Seventies.
article_snippet: In late middle age by now, the Von Trapp children are variously software designers, flower arrangers, nurses or interior decorators.
article_snippet: Regarding the authentic Von Trapps, incidentally, the Von Trapp children stopped singing professionally in 1956 and settled in Vermont, where the Von Trapp children ran a hotel that burned down in 1980.