Alix Williamson

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Alix Williamson (5 April 1916 – 26 August 2001) was an American

Trapp Family Singers for more than two decades; and it was she who came up with the idea for Maria von Trapp's autobiographical work The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (1949) (the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music). She also worked as a promoter for the New York Philharmonic for 15 years.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Obituaries: Alix Williamson". Opera News. December 2001.