We're celebrating the 60th anniversary of The Sound of Music with the 60 most iconic moments from the film. Drop your favorite in the comments below! 🩵 CONNECT WITH RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN https://www.RodgersAndHammerstein.com​ http://www.facebook.com/RodgersAndHam... https://twitter.com/RnH_Legacy http://instagram.com/RodgersAndHammer... https://www.tiktok.com/@RodgersAndHam... CONNECT WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC https://www.facebook.com/TheSoundOfMusic https://twitter.com/SoundofMusic https://www.instagram.com/SoundOfMusic ABOUT THE 1965 FILM On March 2, 1965, 20th Century Fox premiered the movie version of The Sound of Music, directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City, where it played for a record-setting 93 weeks. The movie’s initial U.S. release lasted four-and-a-half years, and from 1966 to 1972. The Sound of Music was cited by Variety as the “All-Time Box Office Champion.” It remains the most popular movie musical adaptation ever made, featuring unforgettable favorites like “Edelweiss,” ”My Favorite Things,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Sixteen Going On Seventeen,” “The Lonely Goatherd” and “The Sound of Music.” The Sound of Music won five Academy Awards in 1966, including Best Picture. ABOUT RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN After long and highly distinguished careers with other collaborators, Richard Rodgers (Composer, 1902-1979) and Oscar Hammerstein II (Librettist/Lyricist, 1895-1960) joined forces in 1943 to create the most successful partnership in American musical theater. Prior to joining forces, Rodgers collaborated with lyricist Lorenz Hart on musical comedies that epitomized wit and sophistication (Pal Joey, On Your Toes, Babes In Arms and more), while Hammerstein brought new life to operetta and created the classic Show Boat with Jerome Kern. Oklahoma!, the first Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, introduced an integrated form that became known as “the musical play.” Their shows that followed included Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. Collectively, the Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals have earned Tony, Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, Pulitzer, and Olivier Awards. The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization is a Concord Company, www.concord.com. #RodgersAndHammerstein #RichardRodgers #OscarHammerstein #Rodgers #Hammerstein #Instrumental #Musical #MusicalTheatre #SoundofMusic #TheSoundofMusic #JulieAndrews #ChristopherPlummer
The 1965 film The Sound of Music is produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 Broadway musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical's book by Lindsay and Crouse. Based on the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian woman studying to become a nun in Salzburg in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children. After bringing and teaching love and music into the lives of the family through kindness and patience, she marries the officer and together with the children they find a way to survive the loss of their homeland through courage and faith. The film was released on March 2, 1965 in the United States, initially as a limited roadshow theatrical release. Although critical response to the film was widely mixed, the film was a major commercial success, becoming the number one box office movie after four weeks, and the highest-grossing film of 1965. By November 1966, The Sound of Music had become the highest-grossing film of all-time—surpassing Gone with the Wind—and held that distinction for five years. The film was just as popular throughout the world, breaking previous box-office records in twenty-nine countries. Following an initial theatrical release that lasted four and a half years, and two successful re-releases, the film sold 283 million admissions worldwide and earned a total worldwide gross of $286,000,000. The Sound of Music received five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The film also received two Golden Globe Awards, for Best Motion Picture and Best Actress, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical. In 1998, the American Film Institute (AFI) listed The Sound of Music as the fifty-fifth greatest American movie of all time, and the fourth greatest movie musical. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". #SoundOfMusic
Celebrating "the happiest sound in the world" with the definitive Super Deluxe Edition of the beloved soundtrack! The Sound of Music can be found in a variety of formats, including a Super Deluxe Edition (4-CD/1-Blu-Ray Audio box set and digital). Order here: https://found.ee/som-superdeluxe Craft Recordings proudly celebrates Robert Wise’s film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s timeless masterpiece, The Sound of Music, with multiple expanded, remixed and remastered reissues of the Julie Andrews-led musical’s beloved—and immensely successful—soundtrack. Featuring such iconic classics as “My Favorite Things,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “The Sound of Music” and “Edelweiss,” the 1965 film was an Academy Award®-winning blockbuster, while its album broke numerous chart records and, today, remains one of the world’s best-selling soundtracks of all time. With well over 40 previously unreleased tracks, the definitive Super Deluxe Edition set collects every musical element from the film for the very first time, along with instrumentals of each song, plus 11 never-before-heard alternate takes, including rare performances from the cast. The accompanying Blu-Ray Audio disc features the full score in hi-res audio as well as a new Dolby Atmos® mix of the original 16-track soundtrack for the ultimate immersive listening experience. Rounding out the 5-disc box set are new, in-depth liner notes by the acclaimed writer, preservationist, and Robert Wise associate Mike Matessino, who also remixed and remastered the album from the original multi-track tapes. In his detailed essay, which delves deep into the making of the film and all of its music, Matessino writes, “You will hear what you’ve heard before, famous songs with the mellifluous tones of Dame Julie Andrews leading the way, but the experience has been transformed beyond what the 1965 soundtrack album offered—with extensions to the songs, a brilliantly arranged underscore, and even some segments not used in the completed version of the film.” Fans can also find the album on Deluxe 2-CD and 3-LP triple-gatefold formats, which include the film’s full score. The classic 16-track 1965 album will also be released (with newly remixed and remastered audio) on standard and HD digital and Dolby Atmos, as well as several international versions (Spanish, German, French and Italian) available on standard digital.
Get ready for karaoke! Sing along to The Sound of Music Super Deluxe Edition – now available to stream or purchase. The definitive Super Deluxe Edition of the beloved soundtrack, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, can be found in a variety of formats. Order here: https://found.ee/som-superdeluxe

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The R&H GOES POP! series is now a full-length album! It’s the Rodgers & Hammerstein songs you know and love – reinterpreted in ways you’ve never heard them before. Join your favorite Broadway stars as they put their own unique spin on the Rodgers & Hammerstein songbook! Stream or download here: https://found.ee/RHGoesPop​
LISTEN TO THE EP HERE: https://found.ee/WAKtBv The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization partnered with stories to release four-song EP, "songs by Rodgers & Hammerstein," to honor the 80th anniversary of one of the most successful musical theatre partnerships of all time. Featuring reimagined takes on some of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s most iconic songs, “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Impossible,” “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and “My Favorite Things,” the EP will be released on streaming and digital platforms worldwide beginning Friday, August 25. stories, from the team behind funk cover band Scary Pockets, creates stripped-down covers with a rotating cast of singers and musicians. Each track on songs by Rodgers & Hammerstein has been reinterpreted by stories' team of talented musicians and features a different vocal artist, breathing new life into the melodies while staying true to the original spirit that made them so cherished and allowing fans – both old and new – to experience these timeless tunes in a fresh and dynamic way.
Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today. Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love never runs smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love's journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. That they will succeed in making a new life together we have no doubt, and that this new life will begin in a brand-new state provides the ultimate climax to the triumphant OKLAHOMA!