"2, 2014. A DVD of the special was released on December 17, 2013, through Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The DVD includes a behind-the-scenes look, titled ""The Making of ""The Sound of Music Live!"""" and a preview of the soundtrack. It was released on DVD in Canada on January 7, 2014. The Sound of Music Live! The Sound of Music Live! is a television special that was originally broadcast by NBC on December 5, 2013. Produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the special was an adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical ""The Sound of Music"". The television special starred"
"is one of the last songs written by Oscar Hammerstein II, who died 9 months after the play opened. So Long, Farewell ""So Long, Farewell"" is a song from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1959 musical, ""The Sound of Music"". It was included in the original Broadway run and was first performed by the Von Trapp children, Kathy Dunn, David Gress, Evanna Lien, Mary Susan Locke, Lauri Peters, Marilyn Rogers, Joseph Stewart, and Frances Underhill. ""So Long, Farewell"", along with ""Do-Re-Mi"", are the only songs to predominantly feature the Von Trapp children. They first perform the song on their own to party"
"Sweetest Sounds"". Rodgers also wrote both the words and music for two new songs used in the film version of ""The Sound of Music"". (Other songs in that film were from Rodgers and Hammerstein.) Rodgers went on to work with lyricists: Stephen Sondheim (""Do I Hear a Waltz?"") who was a protégé of Hammerstein, Martin Charnin (""Two by Two,"" ""I Remember Mama"") and Sheldon Harnick (""Rex""). At its 1978 commencement ceremonies, Barnard College awarded Rodgers its highest honor, the Barnard Medal of Distinction. Rodgers was an honoree at the first Kennedy Center Honors in 1978. At the 1979 Tony Awards"
"featured in the list, including Elmer Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner, and John Williams. His scores for the following films were also nominated for inclusion: Jerry Goldsmith Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for such films as """" and four other films within the ""Star Trek"" franchise, ""The Sand Pebbles"", ""Logan's Run"", ""Planet of the Apes"", ""Patton"", ""Papillon"", ""Chinatown"", ""The Wind and the Lion"", ""The Omen"", ""The Boys from Brazil"", ""Capricorn One"", ""Alien"", ""Outland"", ""Poltergeist"", ""The Secret of NIMH"","
"revival in 2002 starring Lea Salonga had a rewritten plot by playwright David Henry Hwang but retained the inter-generational and immigrant themes as well as most of the original songs. ""The Sound of Music"", Rodgers and Hammerstein's last work together, is based on the story of the Von Trapp Family. Starring Mary Martin as Maria and Theodore Bikel as Captain von Trapp, it opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16, 1959, garnering much praise and numerous awards. It has been frequently revived ever since. The show was made into a film in 1965 starring Julie Andrews as"
"were done. Oscar is not about the 'lark that is learning to pray' – that's easy to make fun of. He's about ""Allegro"","" Hammerstein's most experimental musical. His reputation for being sentimental is based largely on the movie versions of the musicals, especially ""The Sound of Music"", in which a song sung by those in favor of reaching an accommodation with the Nazis, ""No Way to Stop It"", was cut. As recent revivals of ""Show Boat"", ""Oklahoma!"", ""Carousel"", and ""The King and I"" in London and New York show, Hammerstein was one of the more tough-minded and socially conscious American"
"Howard Shore Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer who is notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for ""The Lord of the Rings"" and ""The Hobbit"" film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on the first trilogy, with one being for the original song ""Into the West"", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of"
"the commissary, he met longtime friend, Joe Fields, who mentioned that he was negotiating for the rights to ""The Flower Drum Song"". Intrigued by the title, Hammerstein asked for a copy of the novel, and decided that it had potential as a musical – the lyricist described it as ""sort of a Chinese ""Life with Father"""". Hammerstein consulted with Rodgers, and they agreed to make it their next work, to be written and produced in association with Fields. Hammerstein began work in mid-1958. In July, however, he fell ill and was hospitalized for a month. This forced him to hurry"
"to depression and alcohol abuse, and was at one time hospitalized. He was also well known as a serial womanizer. Richard Rodgers Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music, with over 900 songs and 43 Broadway musicals, leaving a legacy as one of the most significant composers of 20th century American music. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. His compositions have had a significant impact on popular music. Rodgers was the first person to win what are considered the top"
"music and English sea shanties, as well as other music from the early seventeenth century that helped inspire numbers in the film. Schwartz modeled his lyrical writing for people of other ethnicities on that of Oscar Hammerstein II and Sheldon Harnick. ""Colors of the Wind"" was the first song to be written for the film. Gabriel, Goldberg, and Pentecost insisted that the song help define the film's ""heart and soul"". Schwartz began ""Colors"" with a few draft ideas for lyrics taking inspiration from Chief Seattle's letter to the United States Congress. Then, Menken wrote the melody with Schwartz listening at"
"won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for ""Oklahoma!"". In 1954, Rodgers conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in excerpts from ""Victory at Sea"", ""Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"" and the ""Carousel Waltz"" for a special LP released by Columbia Records. Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals earned a total of 37 Tony Awards, 15 Academy Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, two Grammy Awards, and two Emmy Awards. After Hammerstein's death in 1960, Rodgers wrote both words and music for his first new Broadway project ""No Strings"" (1962, which earned two Tony Awards). The show was a minor hit and featured the song, ""The"
"lived to the age of 102. In the early 1940s, composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, each a longtime Broadway veteran, joined forces and began their collaboration by writing two musicals that became massive hits, ""Oklahoma!"" (1943) and ""Carousel"" (1945). An innovation for its time in integrating song, dialogue and dance, ""Oklahoma!"" would serve as ""the model for Broadway shows for decades"". In 1999, ""Time"" magazine named ""Carousel"" the best musical of the century, writing that Rodgers and Hammerstein ""set the standards for the 20th century musical"". Their next effort, ""Allegro"" (1947), was a comparative disappointment, running for"
"""The Sound of Music"". Andrews later beat Hepburn for the Best Actress Award at the Golden Globes for their respective roles. Andrews would also win the Oscar for Best Actress for her role. Hepburn did not receive a nomination. Richard Sherman, one of the songwriters, also voiced a penguin as well as one of the Pearlies. Robert Sherman dubbed the speaking voice for Jane Darwell because Darwell's voice was too weak to be heard in the soundtrack. Sherman's voice is heard saying the only line: ""Feed the Birds, Tuppence a bag."" Disney cast Dick Van Dyke in the key supporting"
"Mountain"", ""Do-Re-Mi"", and ""Edelweiss"", Hammerstein's last song. Much of Rodgers's work with both Hart and Hammerstein was orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Rodgers composed twelve themes, which Bennett used in preparing the orchestra score for the 26-episode World War II television documentary ""Victory at Sea"" (1952–53). This NBC production pioneered the ""compilation documentary""—programming based on pre-existing footage — and was eventually broadcast in dozens of countries. The melody of the popular song ""No Other Love"" was later taken from the ""Victory at Sea"" theme entitled ""Beneath the Southern Cross"". Rodgers won an Emmy for the music for the ABC documentary"
"would have collapsed during that summer of 1948."" Rodgers composed the music once he received the lyrics from Hammerstein. A number of stories are told of the speed with which he wrote the music for ""South Pacific"" 's numbers. ""Happy Talk"" was said to have been composed in about twenty minutes; when Hammerstein, who had sent the lyrics by messenger, called to check whether Rodgers had received them, his partner informed him that he had both lyrics and music. Legend has it he composed ""Bali Ha'i"" in ten minutes over coffee in Logan's apartment; what he did create in that"
"on their 1972 album ""Sloppy Seconds"", and later by Doyle Holly (on his 1973 album ""Doyle Holly""), Barbi Benton (on her 1974 album ""Barbi Doll""), Emmylou Harris (on her 1975 album ""Pieces of the Sky"") and Dave & Sugar (on their 1976 album ""Dave & Sugar""). Silverstein composed original music for several films and displayed a musical versatility in these projects, playing guitar, piano, saxophone and trombone. He wrote ""In the Hills of Shiloh"", a poignant song about the aftermath of the Civil War, which was recorded by The New Christy Minstrels, Judy Collins, Bobby Bare and others. The soundtrack"
"Some of the songs are based on ""The Sound of Music"", with the original lyrics replaced by ones about killing Bart Simpson. One example: ""The hills are alive and they ate Bart Simpson."" In 2007, Carrie Underwood performed the song live Maria in ""The Sound of Music Live!"". The program was seen live by more than 18 million viewers. JLS sampled the song on their 2010 single ""The Club Is Alive"". The single debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number one. The Sound of Music (song) “The Sound of Music” is the title song from the 1959 musical ""The"
"Richard Rodgers Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music, with over 900 songs and 43 Broadway musicals, leaving a legacy as one of the most significant composers of 20th century American music. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. His compositions have had a significant impact on popular music. Rodgers was the first person to win what are considered the top American entertainment awards in television, recording, movies and Broadway – an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award"
"the mountain. The landmark gained international fame as the ""distinctive, lopsided peak"" featured at the beginning and end of the 1965 movie ""The Sound of Music"", although the filming was done on the German side, not the Austrian side. It was where Julie Andrews sang ""The Hills Are Alive"" at the opening scene and where the family climbed the mountain on their escape to Switzerland at the end of the film. The mountain also lends its name to an 1829 opera, ""Der Untersberg,"" by Johann Nepomuk von Poißl (1783–1865). The Untersberger marble ball mills are located in Marktschellenberg in Berchtesgaden,"
"Words and Music (1948 film) Words and Music is a 1948 American biographical musical film loosely based on the creative partnership of the composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart. The film stars Mickey Rooney as Hart and Tom Drake as Rodgers, along with Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett, Ann Sothern and numerous musical stars. It was the second in a series of MGM biopics about Broadway composers; it was preceded by ""Till the Clouds Roll By"" (Jerome Kern, 1946) and followed by ""Three Little Words"" (Kalmar and Ruby, 1950) and ""Deep in My Heart"" (Sigmund Romberg, 1954). The movie is"
"not sing until the end of the show. Rodgers refused to consider such an innovation, bringing Sondheim to recognize that in the Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration, it was Hammerstein that was the pathbreaker, because Rodgers was an ""archconservative"" whose innovations were restricted to superficial gimmicks (for example, no string instruments in ""No Strings""). Sondheim felt that Rodgers was not able to write a story in song so he ended up writing many of the lyrics first. Unlike his other partnerships in which composers responded with a collaborative give-and-take between lyrics and music, Sondheim felt that working with Rodgers was like"
"Hammerstein source; these additions are considered to be the most dramatic of the changes made to the musical. ""The Sweetest Sounds"", a duet Rodgers wrote himself following Hammerstein's death for the musical ""No Strings"" (1962), was used to explore the lead couple's initial thoughts and early relationship upon meeting each other in the town square, performing separately until they are united. The filmmakers found this song particularly easy to incorporate.""Falling in Love With Love"", which Rodgers wrote with lyricist Lorenz Hart for the musical ""The Boys from Syracuse"" (1938), was adapted into a song for Cinderella's stepmother, a character who"
"a system that copied recorded imagery of fire. The musical score for ""The Lord of the Rings"" films was composed by Howard Shore. It was performed by the 100-strong New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Voices, The London Oratory School Schola, and the Maori Samoan Choir, and featured several vocal soloists. Shore wrote almost four hours of finalised music for the film (of which just over three hours are used as underscore), featuring a number of non-orchestral instruments, and a large number (49-62) of leitmotives. Two original songs, ""Aníron"" and the end title theme ""May It"
"that later historians writing about important moments in twentieth-century theatre would begin to identify eras according to their relationship to ""Oklahoma!"""" ""After ""Oklahoma!"", Rodgers and Hammerstein were the most important contributors to the musical-play form... The examples they set in creating vital plays, often rich with social thought, provided the necessary encouragement for other gifted writers to create musical plays of their own"". The two collaborators created an extraordinary collection of some of musical theatre's best loved and most enduring classics, including ""Carousel"" (1945), ""South Pacific"" (1949), ""The King and I"" (1951) and ""The Sound of Music"" (1959). Some of"
"that involve flight inspired Goldsmith to write some of his most exhilarating music, such as in ""Supergirl"", ""Star Trek: The Motion Picture"", ""A Gathering of Eagles"", ""Night Crossing"", ""Air Force One"" and ""Tora! Tora! Tora!"". Goldsmith's scores to ""A Patch of Blue"" and ""The Sand Pebbles"" garnered him his second and third Academy Award nominations, respectively, and were both one of the 250 nominees for the American Film Institute's top twenty-five American film scores. His scores for ""Seven Days in May"" and ""The Sand Pebbles"" also garnered Goldsmith his first two respective Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Original Score"
"""Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years"", scored by Eddie Sauter, Hershy Kay, and Robert Emmett Dolan. Rodgers composed the theme music, ""March of the Clowns"", for the 1963–64 television series ""The Greatest Show on Earth"", which ran for 30 episodes. He also contributed the main-title theme for the 1963–64 historical anthology television series ""The Great Adventure"". In 1950, Rodgers and Hammerstein received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award ""in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York."" Rodgers, Hammerstein, and Joshua Logan won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for ""South Pacific"". Rodgers and Hammerstein had"
"is described by Lewis as ""arguably the most tautly crafted blues song Dick and Oscar ever wrote"". Having decided that record companies were profiting more from the sales of their cast albums than they were, Rodgers and Hammerstein formed their own record company to produce the cast recording for the original production of ""Flower Drum Song"". The album sold a relatively modest 300,000 copies, compared with sales of over a million copies for Rodgers and Hammerstein's next and final musical, ""The Sound of Music"". Still, it was certified as a gold record for having at least a million dollars in"
"Hammerstein's musicals were named to the ""Songs of the Century"" list as compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Corporation: Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song—in 1941 for ""The Last Time I Saw Paris"" in the film ""Lady Be Good"", and in 1945 for ""It Might as Well Be Spring"" in ""State Fair."" In 1950, the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award ""in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York."" Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards,"
"accepted the invitation to compose the musical score for the screen version of life in the small town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. He explained, ""For the film version, they were counting on the music to translate the transcendental aspects of the story. I tried for clean and clear sounds and in general used straight-forward harmonies and rhythms that would project the serenity and sense of security of the story."" Copland arranged about ten minutes from the film score for a suite. It is dedicated to Leonard Bernstein. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Scott,"
"In an interview for ""The New York Times"", Hammerstein indicated that he wrote the first scene before leaving for London and the West End production of ""Carousel"" in mid-1950; he wrote a second scene while in the British capital. The pair had to overcome the challenge of how to represent Thai speech and music. Rodgers, who had experimented with Asian music in his short-lived 1928 musical with Lorenz Hart titled ""Chee-chee"", did not wish to use actual Thai music, which American audiences might not find accessible. Instead, he gave his music an exotic flavor, using open fifths and chords in"
"Jerry Goldsmith Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for such films as """" and four other films within the ""Star Trek"" franchise, ""The Sand Pebbles"", ""Logan's Run"", ""Planet of the Apes"", ""Patton"", ""Papillon"", ""Chinatown"", ""The Wind and the Lion"", ""The Omen"", ""The Boys from Brazil"", ""Capricorn One"", ""Alien"", ""Outland"", ""Poltergeist"", ""The Secret of NIMH"", ""Gremlins"", ""Hoosiers"", ""Total Recall"", ""Basic Instinct"", ""Rudy"", ""Air Force One"", ""L.A. Confidential"", ""Mulan"", ""The Mummy"", three ""Rambo"" films, and ""Explorers"". He collaborated with some of"
"Oklahoma (Rodgers and Hammerstein song) ""Oklahoma"" is the title song from the Broadway musical ""Oklahoma!"", named for the setting of the musical play. The music and lyrics were written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The melody is reprised in the main title of the 1955 film version and in the overtures of both film and musical productions. In 1953, the Oklahoma legislature chose it as the state song of Oklahoma, replacing a less well-known song, ""Oklahoma - A Toast"", that had been adopted in 1935. Midway through the second act of the play, after the principals Curly and"
"the . In ""The Making of The Sound of Music"" by Max Wilk, Wilk stated that when Robert Wise and Saul Chaplin discussed replacing ""An Ordinary Couple"" with Rodgers, he automatically agreed to the idea and admitted he and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II had been talking of replacing the song but Hammerstein had been too ill to do so. This was not the only song to be written for the film: another song, ""I Have Confidence"", was also added. Owing to the popularity of these songs in the film, both have sometimes been integrated into stage productions, with ""Something Good"""