June 30, 2020

In 1965, an evergreen musical was born, The Sound of Music. It explored the life of Maria, a free-spirited postulant. The opening scene sees the Mother Abbess lament to other nuns about Maria’s behavior in music; “How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you hold a cloud and pin it down? She’s late for everything, except for every meal…” Wordings aside, it was beautiful music, each note resonating stronger than the last. However, notes and chords aside, words enliven music, and this was the case. Never had the composers thought, a personality they built in their fantasies would share striking similarities with a country, and no just any, one with a population of over two hundred million people.