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Kolkata schools to celebrate 50 years of 'The Sound of Music'
Kolkata, June 9
Fifty years after it first
captivated audiences globally, iconic Hollywood film "The Sound of
Music" has remained evergreen. To celebrate its golden jubilee, school
children across the city will celebrate various aspects of the movie in
'The Edelweiss Festival'.
To commemorate the film, 17 Kolkata
schools will participate in the festival highlighting various sides of
the movie in an innovative manner during June 16-17 at the Kala Mandir
auditorium.
Winner of five Oscars, "The Sound of Music" starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer released to internal acclaim in 1965.
Based
on the real life story of the famed von Trapp family singers of
Austria, the cult film gave the world memorable melodies like "My
Favourite Things", "Do Re Mi" and "Edelweiss" to hum for decades to
come.
Organised by the Ashok Hall Group of Schools, in
association with the Austrian embassy in India, the event will begin
with a choral presentation by performers from Vienna and a pageant
depicting characters from the movie.
Students will celebrate the
essence of the musical through an inter-school competition on
instrumental music based on the film's compositions and speech contests
on the scenes and human values portrayed in the classic.
School-goers
will tap into their acting skills for a skit competition and put their
thinking caps on to create a video montage of films in other languages
that have been influenced by the "The Sound of Music".
Songs from the film will also be performed by the participants.
Austrian
Ambassador Bernhardh Wrabetz, and Michael Heinz, director of the
Austrian Cultural Forum, are scheduled to attend the gala, organisers
said.