28th Anniversary - Edelweiss - Julie Andrews

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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sound of Music! Academy Award-winning actress and singer Julie Andrews performs "Edelweiss" with André Previn conducting the NHK Symphony Orchestra during an August 1993 concert at NHK Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

The song is named after the edelweiss, a white flower found high in the Alps and popular among Austrians. Rodgers provided a haunting waltz-time melody to the simple 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. It was the last song the two wrote together prior to Hammerstein's death.

I mixed the concert footage with HD aerial footage of the Austrian Alps. I thought not only did the smooth visuals of the Austrian Alps blend with the graceful rhythm of "Edelweiss" but, as the unofficial anthem of Austria, it was an ideal backdrop to Andrews' performance.

NHK, Japan's national TV network, broadcast the concert to celebrate the 20th anniversary of NHK Hall, which opened in Shibuya, Tokyo in 1973. It's perhaps the best telecast of a Julie Andrews concert performance ever.

Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein
©️1959, 1960 The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization
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