From Salzburg: 'My Favorite Things,' Coltrane-style
&Rdquo;You can’t stop yourself from humming it here. But for this blog post, I am not thinking of Julie Andrews’ saccharine version from the 1965 Hollywood classic, “The Sound of Music.” I am thinking here of John Coltrane’s much more complex take on “My Favorite Things.”
So with apologies to “‘Trane,” here are a few of my favorite vignettes from the journey to Salzburg. Three to be precise, and one small addendum:
1) Karaoke in five languages At the Salzburg Global Seminar, karaoke night takes place in the palace’s beer cellar, where thick, stone walls had a nice way of muffling ‘“the sound of music” for those of us, like myself, who are, well, musically challenged. The 50 students there from around the world were surprisingly gifted. And they sang in Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, English and I guess you could say Swedish, unless one considers Abba its own foreign language.
They were just about all pop songs (with the exception of a serious Syrian folk song) and they all had their own “truth” in the way they were sung. It was the kind of truth that Coltrane would have loved. (If you have never heard the American jazz legend’s album titled “My Favorite Things” you are missing out on perhaps the greatest jazz album ever. And a fun fact is that it came out in 1961 based on the Broadway play, which made it a full five years ahead of the Hollywood classic by Julie Andrews.)
And there were a lot of good laughs. My youngest son, Jack, sang a Justin Bieber song. He’s eight years old and was doted over by the college girls, which was nice but which resulted in teasing by older brothers. Gabriel, 10, fearlessly sang a much too mature rendition of Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie” accompanied by the Argentinian intern Gisele Laffont, who is not only brilliant but has a great voice.
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Goetz Dietrich Schaffhauser, a local teacher of German and other languages, known for his humor and passion for sustainable living, died in his Amherst home Wednesday after a long illness. He was 75.
Born in Leipzig, Germany, he lived in Munich until he came to the United States in 1961, moving to Buffalo at the invitation of German friends who had settled here.
He was a teacher of German, Spanish and French at many local schools including Amherst Junior High School, Park School, Daemen College and St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute.
Mr. Schaffhauser was well liked by students. In one recent encounter, one said he had been inspired to study by his former teacher’s encouraging approach, said Charlotte Grantham, his longtime companion.
Grantham recalled a trip to Salzburg, Austria. When there was no English speaking guide for one palace tour, Mr. Schaffhauser began translating for the German guide.
“Pretty soon there was a mob of people around us, listening to what Goetz had to say,” said Grantham, a retired assistant audiology professor at the University at Buffalo.
The couple met in the audience of a production of the Samuel Beckett play the Endgame in the 1982. “He came in and just seemed to brighten the atmosphere all around him,” she said. He was the hit of a Halloween party when he arrived in an old night shirt and carried a tall, old-fashioned candle.
“He just was one of the funniest people there,” Grantham said. “That’s all.”
Always concerned about nature and the environment, he hiked mountains in Bavaria. After retirement, he made many friends collecting recyclables, on his bicycle. He was a dedicated worker at Trinity Episcopal Church’s White Elephant Sale. In 1956, he graduated from high school in Munich, where he was named the “Bavarian Junior Judo Champion.” He studied economics and geography at the University of Munich before leaving for the states.
He is also survived by a sister, Christin Duscher.
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