The Sound of Music (1965): "Edelweiss" by Richard Rodgers (Julie Andrews & Christopher Plummer)

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The Sound of Music (1965)
Soundtrack: "Edelweiss"
Composer: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein
Sung by Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer (dubbed by Bill Lee), Charmian Carr, Nicholas Hammond, Heather Menzies-Urich, Duane Chase,
Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner and Kym Karath and the audience at the Salzburg folk festival
Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Eleanor Parker
Awards: Won 5 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 10 nominations
Genres: Biography | Drama | Family | Musical
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 29 March 1965
Runtime: 174 min
Budget: $8,200,000 (estimated)
Gross: $163,214,286 (USA)

Storyline
In 1930's Austria, a young woman named Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, Maria is given the job. The Captain's wife is dead, and he is often away, and runs the household as strictly as he does the ships he sails on. The children are unhappy and resentful of the governesses that their father keeps hiring, and have managed to run each of them off one by one. When Maria arrives, she is initially met with the same hostility, but her kindness, understanding, and sense of fun soon draws them to her and brings some much-needed joy into all their lives -- including the Captain's. Eventually he and Maria find themselves falling in love, even though Georg is already engaged to a Baroness and Maria is still a postulant. The romance makes them both start questioning the decisions they have made.

Edelweiss
"Edelweiss" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. It is named after the edelweiss, a white flower found high in the Alps. It is sung by Captain Georg Ludwig von Trapp and his family during the concert near the end of Act II as a defiant statement of Austrian patriotism in the face of the pressure put upon him to join the navy of Nazi Germany. In the 1965 film adaptation, the song is also sung by the Captain earlier in the film as he rediscovers music and a love for his children. While The Sound of Music was in tryouts in Boston, Richard Rodgers felt Captain von Trapp should have a song with which he would bid farewell to the Austria he knew and loved. He and Oscar Hammerstein II decided to write an extra song that Captain von Trapp would sing in the Kaltzberg Festival (Salzburg Festival in the film) concert sequence towards the end of the show. As they were writing it, they felt that this song could also utilise the guitar-playing and folk-singing talents of Theodore Bikel, who created the role of Captain von Trapp on Broadway. The Lindsay and Crouse script provides a metaphor of the edelweiss flower, as a symbol of the Austria that Captain von Trapp, Maria and their children knew would live on in their hearts despite the Nazi annexation of their homeland. As such, the metaphor of this song builds on an earlier scene when Gretl presents a bouquet of edelweiss flowers to Elsa Schraeder during her visit to the von Trapp household. Rodgers provided a haunting waltz-time melody based on the simple romantic Biedermeier era tunes like H?nschen klein and others, to the simple too Italian style ritornello lyric that Hammerstein wrote about the appearance of the Edelweiss flower. This song turned out to be one of the most beloved songs in the musical, and also one of the best-loved songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein. This song was the last song that Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote together; Hammerstein was suffering from stomach cancer, which would take his life nine months after The Sound of Music opened on Broadway. Although the stage production uses the song only during the concert sequence, Ernest Lehman's screenplay for the film adaptation uses the song twice. Lehman created a scene that makes extra use of the song. This scene, inspired by a line in the original script by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, calls for Captain von Trapp to sing this song with his children in their family drawing room and rediscover the love he felt for them. Lehman also expanded the scope of the song when it was sung in the Salzburg Festival concert scene so that Captain von Trapp and his family would call the crowds to join in the song with him, in defiance of the Nazi soldiers posted around the arena. It is interesting to note that one of the Nazi commandants is shown singing in a baritone, revealing that he cares more for Austria than for the Reich.

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[wow1371]

This is such a touching moment of the movie

Sound of music is way older than my age.

But I love it and specially this song.

It talks to my heart

[Myblue741]

I'll Think is such a beautiful song, a song you will remember for a long time.Sound Of Music is such a good Movie, one of my favs !!.

[rejlau]

Congratulations on your Academy award for Best Supporting Actor Mr. Plummer.

[Deutchlandcl]

@onehmscer Maybe, but I'm just talking as a matter of pride in your country. The thing that ticks me off is when people talk about Germany they tend to think Germans are evil or something because they associate Germans/Germany with Hitler. A lot of the Germans DIDN'T want to be a part of the war, they only did it to protect their families.

[vegeegal]

this song makes me cry so much. we are currently performing the show at my school, and otnight was the first night i had a glance at the backstage screen of this scene. the song makes me so sad cuz of their situation and it also makes me think of how sad i am that this amazing experience of our show is ending soon. <3 Eidelweiss. Bless my homeland forever

[onehmscer]

@Deutchlandcl He may have been born in Austria, but he moved to Germany at the age of 3. So it would be pretty accurate to say he was from Germany, I think.

[amyblossom1]

My daughter's name is Elodie Edelweiss. <3

[Deutchlandcl]

I am always disappointed and indignant when people think that the Hitler was German and try to pin it on Germany. Hitler was from Austria!

Love this song though... I prefer it this time rather than the part at the beginning of the movie, because there is so much more feeling here. It is also kinda sad/cute when the Captain can't bear to sing anymore and everybody joins in.

[Bronwyn51]

sadly captain von trapp died of cancer less then four years after their arrival in the united states, and the US tried to kick them out at first thinking they were spies for hitler, so they didn,t have an easy time when they first arrived in the united states

[DaedalDragons2011]

my grandpa was the flute player in the beginning of the movie :D

[JoshGotLength]

Yes, it is a film but it is also based on a very true story of a family that went through this same story that you see in the film!

[clancybkj]

one of my favorite scenes in any movement, the Austrian people basically saying suck it Hitler