Legacy Recordings has announced announce the release The Sound Of Music: 45th Anniversary Edition. The CD will include the soundtrack from the film, plus a new recording of the film's signature tune, "My Favorite Things," sung by Lea Michele from the FOX-TV series Glee.
The Sound Of Music: 45th Anniversary Edition will be available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting November 2 through Legacy/Rodgers & Hammerstein/FOX.
The release of the deluxe soundtrack edition, with new liner notes and newly-rediscovered photos from the FOX archives, will coincide with the film's high definition Blu-ray Disc debut from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. To commemorate the film's anniversary, TCFHE will release individually numbered Limited Collector's Sets packaged in a keepsake box featuring the digitally remastered and restored film on Blu-ray Disc, a bonus DVD copy of the film, the new deluxe soundtrack CD, a 100-page "My Favorite Things" scrapbook, a reproduction of the original 1965 souvenir program, an exclusive hand-painted "My Favorite Things" music box and more.
In the month prior to the release of the soundtrack and Blu-ray, THE SOUND OF MUSIC will be celebrated where it all began – in movie theaters across America. NCM Fathom, Rodgers & Hammerstein and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment present THE SOUND OF MUSIC SING-ALONG EVENT: A 45th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION on October 19 and October 26 in over 500 select movie theaters in over 150 cities.
One week after release, on November 8 in New York City, the VH1 Save The Music Foundation will honor Academy Award Winner and International Star, Dame Julie Andrews. Along with tributes to other honorees, the program for the evening will include a special tribute to the 45th Anniversary of Rodgers & Hammerstein's THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
The 45th ANNIVERSARY EDITION's full-color CD booklet will include rare photography (some of it recently rediscovered at the Fox photo archives) and an extensive and newly-updated 1,500-word liner notes essay ("I'll Sing Once More: THE SOUND OF MUSIC Lives On") written by Bert Fink, Senior Vice President of Communications for Rodgers & Hammerstein: An Imagem Company.
THE SOUND OF MUSIC Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: 45th ANNIVERSARY EDITION (Legacy/Rodgers & Hammerstein/FOX 88697 79086 2) – Selections: 1. Prelude and The Sound of Music * 2. Overture and Preludium (Dixit Dominus) * 3. Morning Hymn and Alleluia * 4. Maria * 5. I Have Confidence * 6. Sixteen Going on Seventeen * 7. My Favorite Things * 8. Do-Re-Mi * 9. The Sound of Music * 10. The Lonely Goatheard * 11. Edelweiss * 12. Laendler * 13. So Long, Farewell * 14. Entr acte * 15. Climb Ev'ry Mountain * 16. My Favorite Things (reprise) * 17. Something Good * 18. Processional and Maria (The Wedding) * 19. Sixteen Going on Seventeen (reprise) * 20. Do-Re-Mi (reprise) * 21. Edelweiss (reprise) * 22. So Long, Farewell (reprise) * 23. Climb Ev'ry Mountain (reprise) * 24. Finale * Bonus track: 25. My Favorite Things (by Lea Michele from Glee).
