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Our 5 Favorite Things From ‘The Sound of Music’ Super Deluxe Edition Soundtrack
Move over, schnitzel with noodles. We have confidence these chestnuts from Craft Recordings’ new edition of the iconic soundtrack will delight fans.
But director Robert Wise, whose West Side Story(1961) featured an impressive amount of location shooting on the streets of New York City, had a grander vision for his cinematic adaptation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s 1959 Broadway hit. Wise took stars Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and the rest of the cast out of the Hollywood backlots and into the Alps, shooting on location in Salzburg, Austria, to give the sweeping songs and story a realistic grandeur. Rodgers is drily humorous and rather prescient, predicting (accurately) that despite the success of musicals in the mid-sixties, there was likely to be a fallow period that followed given that Hollywood genres tend to “run in cycles.” Carr’s interview is also a delight – she all but fell into this role-of-a-lifetime.
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