#climb ev'ry mountain

[ineffable-romantics]

The last one was fun to do, but such a sad scene lmao, so here's a bonus one for shits n giggles [source]

[soulmusicsongs]

Climb Ev'ry Mountain - Alice McClarity (One Life, 1968)

[asmallexperiment]

My daughter's school did "The Sound of Music" this year for their play; my daughter was Mother Abbess. Honestly, you don't expect this sort of thing to go past being a proud parent who might have to hear someone else's kid (natch) miss a note here and there, but this particular performance turned into an actual news story on account of how best to handle a play that deals with Nazi Germany where young ones are concerned. Literally four local news outlets, the regional paper, the local free news site, and a handful of other news outlets picked it up. I don't know if anyone was completely happy with the outcome--I wrote about it at some length on the Substack.

Tonight, though, I just want to lean in on the experience and something that's a touchstone for a lot of us. There are just a load of canonical songs in the musical; "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" is maybe the trickiest to sing. Peggy Wood is just amazing here. And I'm a proud parent for my daughter having done her best with it--and with the whole play.

[good-evening-mr-kaplan]

Sammy Davis Jr.’s cover of Climb Ev’ry Mountain from The Sound Of Music <3

[bestmusicalworldcup]

Best Act I Finale Song Tournament

As a prelude to the Best Musical World Cup 2024, this tournament will find the best Act I Finale song in musical theater.

The tournament begins on 8 October 2023.

Details on the tournament format are here.

Submissions are now closed!

Additional notes: If a musical has had multiple Act I Finales over the course of its history, all of them will be eligible to compete. If a musical's Act I Finale is not a song but a scene, than I will accept the last song performed in Act I. Finales of one act musicals are not accepted.

List of Entrants below the read more link.

One Day More Defying Gravity Nonstop Why We Build the Wall Tonight (Quintet) All I Ask of You Reprise La Vie Boheme Ever After The Ball Coda (Act I Finale) My Own Best Friend Esmeralda Father to Son Tomorrow Belongs to Me A Little Priest Climb Ev'ry Mountain So Much Better Memory (Prelude) Happy Ending Blackout Bottom's Gonna Be On Top I Believe Marry Me A Little Elephant Love Medley Alive Reprise Bad Idea A Light in the Dark Santa Fe The Torture Tango The Last One You'd Expect Morning Glow The Night Belongs to Us Before the Parade Passes By Along Came Bialy Tomorrow Is Anthem Till We Reach That Day Je dors sur des roses Gold Damned For All Time/Blood Money Sunday Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) Our Love is God Journey to the Past Killer Quest! Singin' in the Rain Impossible/It's Possible One Seventeen Your Wagon is on Fire Status Quo Run Away! I Am What I Am Act I Finale (Urinetown) A New Argentina Loser Geek Whatever Upgrade This World Will Remember Us The Riddle The Impossible Dream Tonight Belongs to You Momma, Look Sharp Jimmy Autumn/Finale You're Nothing Without Me Me Myself and I You Will Be Found The Name of Love and Moonfall Who I'd Be If I Can't Love Her Out of My Dreams Final Storm Ich Gehör Nur Mir Reprise Fearless Finale Erster Akt Right This Way Now You Know Hell to Your Doorstep Dear Friend Stronger Soliloquy Be Back Soon One Day It's My Life The Gods Love Nubia Wie wird man seinen schatten los Sirens Somebody Will Do Something I Hope I'd Give My Life For You Aimer Natalya Daffodils The Beauty Underneath Pretty Funny Rush of Blood to the Head Starlight Express Say it Somehow Toledo Surprise A Man's Gotta Do (Reprise) I Got Rhythm What is it About Her? Defense Comfort and Joy Let it Go Just for Tonight It Must Be Believed to Be Seen Full Disclosure (Part 2) Until Tomorrow Monsters and Men Bright New Day Night of Our Lives Bugsy Malone (Reprise) It's A Grand Night for Singing The Trolley Song Cookies Woman Is Falling into You Before I Gaze At You Again Different I'm the Bravest Individual Crazy World A Blank Piece of Paper On the Verge My Favorite Time of Year The Plagues Bamboleo/There's a Tale Sunflower Bedknob Spell (Reprise 4) Interrogation Room / 취조실 / 取調室 It Is Not True! The Truth / 真相 Something is Starting to Change / 何かが変わり始めている

[randomfoggytiger]

Thank you for the tag, @baronessblixen-- went about this slightly different than the rules-- shuffle on a repeat playlist, post the first 10 tracks, and tag ten people-- because I don't use playlists.

I decided to select an OST, randomly generate a number, and list the corresponding song below:

"Posh!", Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

"Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 (Eroica): I. Allegro con brio", Beethoven

"Chin Up", Charlotte's Web

"Eric to the Rescue", The Little Mermaid

"How Can I Refuse", Barbie The Princess and the Pauper

"Stroll Through the Sky", Howl's Moving Castle

"There's Always Tomorrow for Dreams to Come True", Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

"Climb Ev'ry Mountain", The Sound of Music

"I Dreamed a Dream", Les Miserables

"La Esmeralda", Pugni

Tagging: @welsharcher, @agent-troi, @amplifyme, @suitablyaggrieved, @dd-is-my-guiltypleasure, @cecilysass, @aloysiavirgata, @perpetually-weirdening, @enigmaticdrblockhead, @settle-down-frohike, and I think that's over ten, so I'll stop~.

[aziraphales-library]

My sibling is desperately looking for a good omens fic where the angels realize that they take the place of the Nazis in the Sound of Music story, they don’t remember much of the details other that that but maybe you can still help lol

It could be...

Dixit Dominus by effanineffableplans (T)

"Are we the Nazis, Gabriel?" The Sound of Music hits a little differently in light of the events surrounding the failed apocalypse. Gabriel, Uriel, Michael, and Sandalphon come to Earth to apologize to Aziraphale. Only, their idea of an apology is to sing "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" to him.

- Mod D

[doppelnatur]

Captain Kirk is climbing [points] El Cap

But not only climbing... he's free climbing.

Free climbing is... uhh... climbing without ropes

hands and toes. Climbing up this granite. [mimes climbing]

Seeking energy, strength... and toe and finger holds

Up thirty... three thousand... almost four thousand feet high in the air

One misstep, and it's- and they- and- and and and he- and they fall

The freeclimbers fall

[inhales] The first scene in the film

is our GUEST STAR, Sybok rides in on a polluted planet

and he has to breathe through a breathing device because evrything was so polluted

and seeks to convert

a... a follower to his way of thinking

the next scene

essentially, the opening scene:

CAPTAIN KIRK IS CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN

WHY IS HE CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN?

I've thought often, since, I wrote:

[YOSEMITE. CAPTAIN KIRK, FREECLIMBING]

I've thought often: "Why did I come up with that idea?"

And I had no idea!

For the longest time, I , i i i i-

I had no,,,, uhh... understanding

Subconsciously.

PICKING freeclimbing- which I've never done- and I'm FEARFUL of HEIGHTS

uhhhh

th-ey- to me-

the the the- my worst nightmare- as many people's are- is falling

and i've always found it hard to look overthe edge of aNYTHING

two storey building, let alone...

THREE THOUSAND

FOUR THOUSAND FEET

and then, I began to understand, within the context of the film- let alone in real life- what that climb *meant*.

The climb is not just a climb up the rock, but it's a climb-

the ASPIRATIONS to climb, to reach higher than yourself

man, and this human being, uh, Kirk, representing all of man, climbing higher than himself- there's a line uh, in the scene, I- "I wish to make this ascent," he says, "I'm making an ascent!"

The meaning of that line? Obvious, now, taken out of context.

Free-climbers challenge the rock. Challenge themselves. They are at one with the rock. They become PART of the rock.

There is reason to believe that GRANITE is ALIVE.

The- CRYSTAL formations, and the crystal growing- there's reason to think that a crystal can recreate itself, that's one of the criteria of life!

And- climbers believe that granite IS alive, and they get energy from the granite.

SUN-WARMED by EONS of DAYS in the sun.

THIS. ROCK. can be. thought of as alive-

and so they climb this living body

seeking to be part of the living body

aspiring to climb to the top

and challenging

DEATH

and, thereby, gaining life.

And that's what. I thought. KIRK would be doing.

And we treat it in a funny, in a comical fashion. Uhh... There is great humour in the scene, and- and that was the reason, I discovered for myself, that Kirk is on the mountain.

And the only place he could be [unsettlingly long pause]

was Yosemite.

Because THIS. IS. THE MECHA. [Pause]

For climbers.

From ALL OVER THE WORLD.

Friends of mine who've been on that mountain

over there

have said they have been climbing

and have heard languages from all over the world

and not heard English!

Climbers from every country in the world come to Yosemite

to CLIMB El Cap and the

mountains around it

because it is one of the great climbing places in the in- in the world.

Well. In the erm. In the film. When asked by Spock, uhhh, "Why're you climbing the mountain?"

Kirk says, somewhat facetiously, "Uhhh, because it's there," uhhh, a remark attributed to the climber MALLORY. Uhh. Uhh, who probably did say it, or maybe it was. said by ev'ry caveman who went above the, the lip of the cave 'n, jumped off the top, a-ooh-

"WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT?"

"UH, BECAUSE. IT'S THERE."

You know? uh.

Which. Is a. An answer. That. It. Uhhh. FENDS OFF. The true emotion. Of climbing. A mountain.

The mountain is climbed YES because it's there, because, otherwise, you'd be walking the plains, but the mountain is climbed...

Because I think the climber wants to hug the mountain.

He wants to envelop that mountain within his body.

He wants to make love to the mountain.

And, on its highest and finest level, whether, uhhh, these

tough young guys with their sinewy bodies and their, uhh, one meal a day routine will admit it

There is a

passionate affair

going on

between the climber and the mountain.

[transcript of William Shatner interview by lyrics bot]

[chocolatepot]

I've been meaning to sit down and write out all of my thoughts on "High on a Rocky Ledge" because that song does something to me and every time I listen to it my brain is like !!!!! and I grin hopelessly.

I totally get why this song isn't a Big Deal in the fandom, because it's used before Ed comes on the scene at all. But I'm going to ramble on now about why it affects me so much, because I keep thinking up these points and not jotting them down.

So the context where it's used in the first episode, when Stede is reading to the crew. It sounds a lot like a lullaby, positioning him as their father (along with the fact that he's ... reading a child's story to the crew), for all those found-family feels.

He's also dressed in blue and in bluish moonlight which just makes for an excellent image.

Moondog sounds like some kind of traveling pre-modern singer who travels from village to village, and we all (we are peasants in this scenario) gather around him at the fire at night and listen to him sing his strange stories. This one has an otherworldly edge to it, there is a truth behind it that we can't quite reach.

The tune is quite lonely. Stede has always been lonely. He's definitely a lot less lonely with his crew, who are finally on his side at this point in the episode, but he's still alone. He doesn't really have a second-in-command the way (we will find out) that Ed does.

He doesn't even know that he has a SOULMATE out there, just waiting for him to come along! He thinks he's about as happy as he'll ever be - away from his marriage and boring life, on a ship with a crew that finally seems to accept him. He doesn't know what we know!!

The song itself! Man!

High on a rocky ledge lives a Mädel Edelweiß Shy as a shadow, lovely as lace, and cold as ice High on a rocky ledge, I pledge my love to her Ev'ry time I climb up to Paradise

How many times I've been up to see her, goodness knows Huffing and puffing, dressed in the warmest climbing clothes How many chances would be taken in my Hopeless pursuit of the Schnee Mädel Edelweiß

Then spoke a spirit, "If you would win your lady love There's only one way: fall to your death from high above You will begin to grow in snow beside the one You have waited for to be mated with"

Now, I'm an Edel vice to my Mädel Edelweiß Dying to be with her wasn't any sacrifice We're so deliriously happy on our ledge Where I pledge my love to my Lady Fair

You who are climbing breathless to see me and my love Snow flowers growing fonder on Lover's Ledge above If you've the yen to pluck, then pluck us both For we who have lived as one wish to die as one

So like it's all about a love that's hopeless on the face of it - a man is in love with a flower. He wants to be with the flower but he's a human and she's a flower so it won't work. Some kind of magical being tells him that if he falls off the mountain, he'll be reincarnated as a flower as well, so he does it and it works. That's DARK and weird.

It parallels himself and Ed, who are born to such extremely different positions that they might as well be a human and a flower.

In some ways, Stede is the narrator of the song - he has to die in order to be with the one he loves. This happens multiple times: he's said to have died when he leaves his family to be a pirate (a transformation), he gets stabbed and hanged and nearly dies of the fever as well at the time of his meeting Ed (very liminal), he fakes his own death to be said to have died more truthfully and get closure so that he can be fully with Ed.

At the same time, Stede is the flower. Stede loves flowers (and he has been treated like shit his whole life for it); he's picking flowers in the flashback where he's tied to the oars of a rowboat. He is definitely a figure of beauty to Ed, and kind of a damsel in distress - this guy who doesn't know what the hell he's doing as a pirate, who needs to be rescued from himself. (And "lovely as lace", something definitely associated with Stede.)

And that ending: "If you've the yen to pluck, then pluck us both / For we who have lived as one wish to die as one." Hooooooo. A definite parallel to the ending of the season - Ed tying himself to Stede rather than allowing him to be killed.

[chaoscontrolled123]

i did this as a joke to stress test weina's high range and she almost nails it ma'am hello???

[ihaveconfidenceinrain]

Rest in Peace, Tony Bennett ♥️

'Tony And Julie Showtime' is a promotional 45 from 1966 that was released by CBS. The A side includes two Tony Bennet tracks (one of which is Climb Ev'ry Mountain) and the B side features two Julie Andrews recordings.

[fortytworedvines]

My fave stories of yours are: The Ghosts of Christmas Presents; Your body is not foreign to me;  Climb ev'ry mountain; The Escape; and my two absolute faves: The aunt and the third-favourite historian & Standing at the beginning with you! 💙

Thank you ❤️

Some of my berena favourites too 😄

[lboogie1906]

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey DBE (January 8, 1937) is a Welsh singer. She is known for her career longevity, powerful voice, and recording the theme songs to three James Bond films, she is regarded as one of the most popular vocalists in Britain. Born in Cardiff, she began performing as a teenager. She became the first Welsh person to gain a number-one single on the UK Singles Chart. She amassed 27 Top 40 hits in the UK, including two number-ones. She became well-known for recording the soundtrack theme songs of Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker(1979). In 2020, she became the first female artist to chart an album in the Top 40 of the UK Albums Chart in seven consecutive decades with her album I Owe It All To You. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to the performing arts. She received the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist in the previous 25 years. She is considered one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the second half of the 20th century. She had numerous hits in the UK, and five albums in the Top 15. Her recording of "As Long As He Needs Me" from Lionel Bart's Oliver! reached No. 2, and had a chart run of 30 weeks. She made her American television début on November 13, 1960, when she performed on The Ed Sullivan Show. Her collaboration with Nelson Riddle and his orchestra, the album Let's Face the Music, reached No. 12 in the UK album chart; and the single, "What Now My Love" made it to No. 5. Other UK Top 10 singles of the period included her second No. 1, the double A-side "Reach for the Stars"/"Climb Ev'ry Mountain", "I'll Get By", and a cover version of the Ben E. King hit "I (Who Have Nothing)" she appeared on the cover of Ebony magazine, and sang at a Washington gala celebrating President Kennedy's second year in office. She made her Carnegie Hall debut on February 15, 1964. The complete concert recording was not released until it was included in the EMI compilation 'The EMU/UA Years 1959-1979'. She married Kenneth Hume (1961-1965). She married Sergio Novak (1968-1979), and they adopted her grand-nephew. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CnKJV0KLJZy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

34, 36, 45 :)

34. is there a song you know every word to by heart?

Oh, there are many. The first one that occurs to me is O Mio Babbino Caro. I know most of Nessun Dorma! but can't reliably get one section. The Lord's Prayer. The Sound of Music. Edelweiss. Climb Ev'ry Mountain. My Favourite Things (but not always, weirdly enough). I Will Be With You (by Amira). Follow Your Heart (again, not always; also by Amira). Ombra Mai Fu (from Handel's Serse - very famous I think most people would recognise it even if they don't realise yet that they would). Wouldn't It Be Loverly (from My Fair Lady). The Music Of The Night (also not every time, sometimes I forget it). The Phantom of the Opera (Christine's part, anyhow). Ave Verum Corpus (the one by Mozart, I think... I rarely manage to nail the long mortis at the end tho). Probably some I've missed. Ah yes. River (originally Joni Mitchell). Pedestal (Jackie Evancho). Apocalypse (Jackie Evancho). I can get most of The Haunting (also Jackie Evancho). O Holy Night.

36. how many times hav you changed your url?

Only once, and then back again - it was a joke. I was briefly thispyromaniac for less than a week, then returned to this url bc I like it. Any serious changes are likely to retain the catkin bit, anyhow.

45. can you remember what happened yesterday?

Asking the hard questions, I see! I did paperwork for my new job. I cried. I got stressed. Can't remember much details. Then again, I never can unless something special happened.