Quite some years ago a bride requested this for her wedding processional. At that time, no sheet music for the complete organ solo had been published (but it has been published since then). Lacking...
Quite some years ago a bride requested this for her wedding processional. At that time, no sheet music for the complete organ solo had been published (but it has been published since then). Lacking printed music for it I transcribed it by ear, listening over and over to the record.
The bride and I did agree that the sequé into "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria" should be eliminated! So I ended the music by resolving it on V/I chords just before that part came in.
Incidentlly, the organ sequence was composed by Ashley Miller and played (most likely by Miller) -- not on the beautiful organ in the cathedral (*) where the scene was shot, but on the now-gone Robert Morton pipe organ in the former Lorin Whitney Studio in Glendale, California.
Yes folks, that glorious "cathedral organ" was really a theatre organ (Wurlitzer type) played without tremulants! Organists familiar with that sound -- theatre organs sans trems -- who listen to that track with this knowledge now in hand will clearly recognize that that's what they are hearing.
"That's show biz!"
------- (*) The Mondsee Cathedral in Salzburg, founded in 748 A.D. on the ruins of a Roman settlement. The oldest German translation of the Bible was written here - the Mondsee Matthew. In the wedding scene, Maria, led by Liesl, walked down the aisle to meet the Baron von Trapp in front of the main altar. The first time they filmed the scene, there was nobody at the altar to wed them when they reached the top of the stairs - someone had forgotten to summon the actor playing the bishop. According to Julie Andrews, the real bishop of Salzburg is seen in the movie. (Source: tinyurl.com/3pfvaw)
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My wedding processional! We don't have any of our ceremony on tape, my mother was supposed to have turned on the audio video equipment that was set up before she was escorted in...but in her nervousness she forgot! Thanks for the memories, my aunt played the Sound of Music processional for our wedding, minus the "How Do You Solve a Problem..." part. Absolutely my favorite wedding processional because it's so majestic & grandios!
I would love this at my wedding. The part in this video I would love as the congregation are stading ready for me to arrive, and maybe the bridesmaids coming down, and then I'd come down during the "How do you solve a problem like Maria" bit... Oh the fairytale :) I'm planning my wedding at the moment haha.
But seriously, arranging it by ear is incredible. Fantastic. I do a lot of that with the choir I teach, so I appreciate how long that takes in itself.. But this is incredible. Great work :)
what is the sheet music called and how could i find myself a copy...all i have been able to turn up on google and amazon are piano solo...no organ solo wich makes me sad b/c you play it so well...i'd recommend more pedal stops for a fuller, more powerful sound...but very excellent job at transcribing by ear...thats friggen awesome!
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But seriously, arranging it by ear is incredible. Fantastic. I do a lot of that with the choir I teach, so I appreciate how long that takes in itself.. But this is incredible. Great work :)