Climb Ev'ry Mountain

[@jimbuxton2187]

Now THAT is how you sing this song! With Steady Tone, Power, Emotion, and musicality....

[@timwil09]

I saw Patricia Neway in The Sound of Music on Broadway. Her rendition of Climb Ev'ry Mountain remains the finest to date. May she rest in peace knowing the joy she brought to countless theatre goers in that and other performances throughout her career.

[@allenjones3130]

One of the greatest inspirational ballads ever written for the musical theatre, brought brilliantly to life by the late Patricia Neway.

[@mmjhcb]

This was my first Broadway show. Mary Martin was my idol and this moving song was such a standout memory. BTW, I was around nuns for quite a period of time in my youth, but I never heard one sing like this. 😁😁😁

[@brianoneil6659]

I saw Ms. Neway in The King and I in summer stock. I was very young and she stood next to me in the aisle and sang "Something Wonderful." I could not believe a sound like that was coming out of a mere mortal. It was astounding!

[@fountainchain126]

Oh my god NOW I know why Patricia Neway won the Tony Award for her performance. She is magnificent.

[@wholeNwon]

Listen to her sing "You'll Never Walk Alone".

[@brianoneil6659]

​@@wholeNwonAs I commented here, I saw her sing it live AND she was standing right next to me!!

[@wholeNwon]

@@brianoneil6659 What a great memory for you!

[@marshagarwood2076]

So true. In the movie Peggy Wood's voice was dubbed

[@thesingingrose2809]

As I watch this, my heart sings out for joy! 2 more years until I'm a nun! Oh I'm so happy!

[@mormonslayer71]

God bless you sister, all the best. Pray for us sister.

[@jasonhurd4379]

The Singing Rose Please pray for me, Sister, and God be with you on your journey. ❤

[@dennrb6640MK]

Congratulations, sir!

[@2uah464]

Well look at that. Two years since you posted this comment. I'm so proud of you, sister. I hope you enjoy being in gods presence every day. I used to.. but due to complications I couldn't practice Christianity anymore. It's been years, and it's gotten to the point I have forgotten how to pray. Could you please ask the Lord for my forgiveness, sister? I would really appreciate it, but toot have to. I don't want to trouble you. Anyways, God bless. Have a wonderful day and may God welcome you with open arms.

[@amysorrell9246]

Well according to the time frame you named in your last post, you should be a practicing nun, no longer a novice, but a full fledged 100% nun, so Mazeltov on reaching your dream! I hope you realize how rare that truly us!!! Really, I'm overjoyed you've got there!!!!

[@chgoboy69]

Thank heavens for Ed Sullivan and his show. The only existing film of some of the greatest Broadway shows and performers.

[@amysorrell9246]

Patricia Neway is so sublime!! And the corral is splendid,,, i dont think i was born when Ms Neway won the tony, but she deserved it hands down. Its a performance and a voice i will never forget!!

[@billgucci8378]

Now I know what breathtaking means, my chin quivers, my face is wet, my vision is blurry and I can't breath. Thank you Patricia Neway.

[@Tenortalker]

Patricia Neway one of the greatest voices to grace the Broadway stage. Can you imagine how proud she must have been to introduce this great song to the world? She was unique. The only singer with a similar splendour in her take on the role is Constance Shacklock in the original London cast recording .Constance was older than Patricia when she sang it and just retiring from her opera career, but she made a fine job of the role. Wouldn't it be nice to have real singers and no microphones on stage these day! Then we could appreciate the real sound of the voices without the distortions of technology. Glorious.

[@randysills4418]

Tenortalker Nice to know that the great Constance Shacklock was in "The Sound of Music" in London. I have a live recording of Ms. Shacklock and Kirsten Flagstad, probably the greatest Wagnerian soprano of all time, singing "Tristan Und Isolde" from Covent Garden about 1951.

[@Tenortalker]

Yes she stayed with the cast at the Palace Theatre for 6 years. I had no idea the Tristan recording existed. I must try to find that. Thank you.

[@randysills4418]

Tenortalker I just saw your comment about Shacklock, Flagstad, and Tristan today. it is excerpts only and I got it from the late curator of the Metropolitan Opera, Robert Tuggle. I don't know how available it is...

[@eduardobraivein8496]

Tenortalker Ms Neway sang Magda Sorel in the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Consul."

[@pam0626]

2022 here!! What an absolute gem. We are so blessed to have this on YT.

[@showtunestarpower]

Rodgers and Hammerstein: Not only genius creators but genius casters! Patricia Neway is glorious.

[@Michaelbos]

Beautiful. Nothing on television like this anymore.

[@stevehinnenkamp5625]

The theatrical producers today do not recognize a voice like this.

[@marianoalojado8344]

If these singing nuns are as beautiful as the angels in heaven, who will not strive to go there?

[@AI-hx3fx]

+Mariano Alojado The Alleluia part sounds like something that would play each time a soul enters heaven!

[@CanadianMonarchist]

That's a beautiful thought. I like to think that Wagner's "Prelude to Lohengrin" plays as our souls ascend to Heaven.

[@pstraveler1]

The way this was restaged, the late Patricia Neway does the crescendo early so she shares the climax with the ensemble. But the audience is captivated, and when it comes, the applause could have stopped the show... perhaps should have. Thanks for posting. Rest in Peace Ms. Neway.

[@vanmusician]

Neway is wonderful! And how amazing to see Tatiana Troyanos, She's the nun on the right in the first closeup in the fast section of the first piece. This was one of her first 'gigs' before her Met career.

[@allenjones3130]

Sadly. Ms. Troyanos died of cancer in 1993. May she rest in peace.

[@hawby7mgh]

Wow!

[@DANPETRYSSHOWCASE]

For my mother Mrs. Phyllis Petry, I am devastated and heartbroken...1922 to 2020...The best mother anyone could ever have...This is her favorite song...

[@theatreaficionado]

The Mother Superior is sung by dramatic soprano Patricia Neway, who co-starred opposite Mary Martin as Maria (and who was, incidentally, six years younger than Martin!) Neway won the Best Featured Actress Tony for her performance.

[@JohnnyAngel8]

What year was this Sullivan show performance?

[@detectivefiction3701]

I'd always assumed Neway was a mezzo-soprano. She certainly sounds like one.

[@detectivefiction3701]

@@JohnnyAngel8 1959.

[@majahandlovu2050]

@@detectivefiction3701 I don't hear mezzo , her terrisuta is way too high to be a mezzo

[@jeffreymiller4814]

@@detectivefiction3701Let’s start out by saying this video is of monumental historical importance. She’s the “creator” of this now iconic role. Miss Neway WAS a soprano when she began her career. Unfortunately the long run of Magda Sorel in Menotti’s The Consul on Broadway in 1950 took a heavy toll on her voice. She does sound like a mezzo soprano here, 8 years later at age 38-39, and it was probably her choice. She darkened the color of her voice and stayed in the mezzo soprano range. Mother Abbess can be sung well by all operatic mezzo sopranos. The role sits in the upper stretches for only 2 or 3 measures, and requires nothing higher than one high A-flat.

[@chiedu90069]

And they did this show eight shows a week - without microphones!!!!

[@michaelg2478]

As my old man says, the world will have to go back to basics someday, it can't go on the way it is with people glued to their phones and all this nonsense being obsessed with celebrities. The spirituality of humanity is vanishing, but it's great to see something like this to remind us of the real essence of how we once were.

[@jayakumar4069]

Michael G

[@paulheffron4836]

Your comment is so on target and I'm hopeful that your comment is a sign that many are waking up to the truth you've stated here

[@SymphonyBrahms]

The original Broadway production of "The Sound of Music", starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened in 1959 and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical. I was 10 years old and already collecting Broadway musicals on L.P. records. I bought "The Sound of Music" with Mary Martin and Patricia Neway and loved every song on the record. In 1965, when I was sixteen, I saw the film with Julie Andrews and loved it as well. I saw it on widescreen in CinemaScope and it was a thrilling experience.

[@dennrb6640MK]

You and I have the same history, and same age! Mary Martin was 46 when she played this role. She was much older than Patricia Neway. Go figure.

[@ElleCee62978]

I played the Mother Abbess in 1994. Still my favorite role I’ve ever played.

[@johnpickford4222]

ElleCee62978: You have played the role but you never sang it like that!!

[@ElleCee62978]

@@johnpickford4222 I don’t know about that. I got into Juilliard, Berklee, and about 30 other colleges for music with full scholarships. I sang with opera companies starting in high school. So not at the level of Neway, but pretty dang close for being a teen.

[@brianoneil6659]

​@@ElleCee62978I've taught at Juilliard and I bet you were TERRIFIC!

[@mayle2010]

Can you imagine experiencing this live?!?! It must have been so magical, Patrica gift is so wonderful! Such talent!

[@mmjhcb]

It was!

[@c5back9]

Incredible! As a small boy went with mother to the premier of the movie in my city. Even at age six, these beautiful melodies and arrangements moved me deeply as they still do today more than 50 years later. Wish I'd seen it on Broadway back then. Thanks for sharing this amazing performance!

[@oneway5527]

c5back9 I was 10 when I saw TSOM even had the soundtrack. My LP had started to thread. Lost it along the way but I can still remember my emotions at 10 yrs old. I am so mesmerized by Patricia Neways performance

[@4260laurel]

RIP Mother Superior! What a glorious voice- and heartful performance.

[@4260laurel]

+4260laurel and at six feet so commandingly beautiful

[@jas026able]

She was perfectly cast; superb chest tones, stature (as you mention). We now have Hamilton in hip hop. What's next, John and Abigail in doo wop? I'm so glad I can't get a ticket to Hamilton. Providence intervened on my behalf.

[@AlbatrossDude]

Majestic! She sings so proud, so powerful! Made every sing hair of my body go up! Impressive

[@allenjones3130]

The Beatles could NEVER have written anything as beautiful and inspirational as this!!

[@ivandeankruger6983]

Awesome Vocalist Patricia Neway* This song always moved my emotions. I first heard it in the movie in S.A {1967} was 7 years old. Got addicted to The Sound of Music....

[@globalman]

Wonderful...Thank you for this memory. I saw this show on Broadway as a boy. Although Julie Andrews is legend in the Film I always regretted Mary not doing the film. There is so little film of the truly great broadway legends. True, Mary was not young but she was stellar. And Patricia Neway should have also done the film as she could act and was a great mezzo soprano. Peggy Wood is an old favorite of mine but she was not singing in the film, The dubbed voice did not have this sublime quality.

[@renaniidepinheiroepereira4104]

Cinema needs more realistic performances, and at that point Mary never would convince as a young nun.

[@terryhammond1253]

🎹 This was the second musical I saw on Broadway starring Mary Martin.. The cirst on

[@BalletBabyBoy]

Sublime! Every time I see this i sob...was there ever anything so exquisitely inspiring...Rogers and Hammerstein certainly tapped into the divine here..

[@babylove8541]

Climb Every Mountain.........Incredible!!👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻🙏🏻

[@dennrb6640MK]

And Patricia Neway not only sounds awesome, but is beautiful to watch! what expressions!

[@raystalowski7930]

Beyond incredible!!!

[@GODDESSVEE28]

Gives me chills everytime I watch this!

[@KT-sq2ml]

So beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing this. This was my grandmother’s favorite Broadway musical and as a young boy I would listen to the album of the Original Cast with her. I’ll confess, as a kid I wasn’t too crazy about the nun’s singing (or Climb Ev’ry Mountain), but my grandmother loved them. As an adult I came to understand why. This brought back some wonderful memories. I still have that very same cast album among my collection of vinyl LP’s.

[@elainebmack]

Another example of the best song in a musical being sung by a mature woman's voice. It's a wonderful sound that I miss. Another example is "Something Wonderful" from The King and I.

[@dennrb6640MK]

That's a good one too, though not as powerful as this. They never quite knew how to end that song.

[@nevillehill5210]

Wow , what an amazing voice P N had , what depth , tone & strength

[@ElleCee62978]

Patricia Neway was my inspiration while playing the Mother Abbess. I was a 16 year old soprano who was miserable playing the role up until I got the original Broadway recording.

[@nobleza1959]

Sublime!. Marvelous!. Thank you so much!!.

[@JohnnyGNV]

MAGNIFICENT -I Had this Original Broadway album (well my parents had it, and played it often) and it's wonderful to see it here performed live on stage, I was much too young to be taken to a Theatre. Thank you so very much for sharing this musical treasure.

[@31Alden]

Magnificent! BRAVA, Patricia Neway!

[@randysills4418]

Regarding live performances of Mary Martin: There is a live performance of Mary Martin in "South Pacific" available on U-Tube. It was from 1952. The picture is quite faded, but at least we can see one of the true greats of the musical theater in a complete role!

[@agarryking]

Patricia Neway's rendition of Climb Every Mountain. is positively shattering. Powerful.

[@maryexstroughtonaire4244]

😢😢😢

[@notpropertyadream]

gets better every time. thanks.

[@billsav57]

This is beyond brilliant... thank goodness somebody preserved the original theatrical version (not a big fan of the movie). I still wonder how they rehearsed these, to get in sync with the orchestra (after performing all week with the show’s orchestra).

[@terryhammond1253]

🎹 When Ed Sullivan brought the Broadaay casts to perform excerpts on T V, he also brought the pit musicians from the show as well as the shows conductor.

[@DetroitLives313]

This is absolutely classic!

[@adrictinaye]

takes me back to my humble beginnings, one of the first songs I learned to sing on stage at 4. The audio system of the Sacred Heart was rather substandard so you learned to project and maintain perfect pitch and tone with perfect diction. #PASSION

[@오복수-j7g]

Amazing ~~~~~May GOD bless everyone who believe

[@philsterthephilster]

And that is how its done Here endeth the lesson.

[@Americaslawyer]

Thanks for posting this definitive version. By my light you shine!

[@frederiquecouture3924]

It is lovely and gay, joyful! Merci beaucoup!

[@judebarnes4]

Goes right to your core. What a voice!! Just perfect for this song. I wonder why they didn't use her in the film??

[@tomgallowitz4464]

Audra is wonderful, but Patricia owns this.

[@mortner3669]

+Tom Gallowitz TOTALLY!!!!

[@4260laurel]

+Jeff Harvey never liked Audra in the role- just too- earthy- needs a Mother who is....ethereal? is that the world...and I love Audra ( maybe it was her association with a horrific Maria?)

[@Ihdc1]

+Tom Gallowitz Margery McKay who dubbed Peggy Wood in the movie was also excellent.

[@tomgallowitz4464]

+Ihdc1 still give Patricia the edge, since she won a Tony for the role and did live 8 times a week.

[@davidpayne697]

Don't forget about Kim Criswell and Maria Friedman. And Mrs Constantine from the original London Cast

[@jimp7907]

Stunning❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌈

[@joeloseiga]

God Bless you sister and congratulations!

[@matthewtzivakis9567]

It's amazing to see this! Does anyone have any footage from the actual original production? Would be so good to see it

[@dennrb6640MK]

This is from the Ed Sullivan Show, recorded live on December 20, 1959.

[@OperaLAV]

The April 2012 issue of Opera News gives your Great-Aunt a beautiful tribute on page 14. It's why I came looking to hear her. You must be very proud!

[@stephanieyeshuaislife7236]

Thank you so much for this upload! It is simply Wonderful ~

[@aaround]

Thank you for sharing your video``~

[@CraigFarangBa]

Magnificent

[@martineddydejong]

the best ever

[@charleswhiterhodes]

This comes from an era when singers really could could sing acoustically. Not aided by microphones and auto tune. We have lost much!

[@Ihdc1]

+charleswhiterhodes We still have opera singers.

[@aleromero33]

Hermoso el coro y maravillosa la voz de esta mujer! :)

[@fermingodoy7534]

+aleromero33 .- asi es increible la voz ..su nombre peggy wood y es la misma que aparece en the sound of music con julie andrews. interpretando esta pieza.

[@Americaslawyer]

Superlative performance! Iconic!

[@TreeOfLifeSword]

Beautiful.

[@brookehanley3659]

Back when the world was a better place and had class and dignity. No wonder many aspired to be a nun after this ..as time went on they all left especially 70's. It was a beautiful fantasy but the reality of it all was too much for many.

[@4260laurel]

+Brooke Hanley fantasy? women dedicating themselves to God and mankind? shame on you- belittling it so much....true many left- but many stayed and still do to this day

[@brookehanley3659]

+4260laurel I was schooled by them. More than half left in the 70's it was all too much. They couldn't take it. Many went in and realized they did not know all they gave up. Some went in to live in a protected environment,Sorry, but they were in a fantasy world thinking this was to be their life. there are very few nuns left now and none in the Catholic high school I went to back then. It is run by all lay teachers. same with the grammar parochial school.

[@4260laurel]

+Brooke Hanley as was I, and still work with many communities today- but it is not a fantasy world- and still, shame on you. There are many new to the orders- but true, not in America, The nuns should have schooled you better!

[@brookehanley3659]

4260laurel No, SHAME on you for not accepting a reality. Why did so many leave? Maybe for you it was a true calling and not a fantasy, but with the ones I saw they did not make the cut and several in grammar were downright abusive they were so frustrated. Physically inflicting injury. Do not judge lest ye be judged. Save your shame on you's.

[@4260laurel]

+Brooke Hanley Honey, from your sound I would have used the ruler!

[@helenzumaran4609]

Simplemente ... hermoso...

[@augustogugudao]

Minha gente, que coisa linda!

[@scoottoujourspret743]

1:41 Lowest voices are awsome

[@clairejohnston2461]

Giving altos the credit they deserve (says an alto). 😄 Thanks!

[@scoottoujourspret743]

@@clairejohnston2461 sometimes I hear basses other times altos

[@georgebaldwin5456]

This aria was created for Patricia Neway, and vice versa. Brava!

[@helenzumaran4609]

simplemente hermoso

[@dangervich]

Oh, yeah, that's better! I've been plodding through all kinds of versions and this one's one of the better ones. This song can be awfully boring, especially in the very first phrase, which presents a challenge since that's when the singer courts the audience. Each note has to be filled up from the top down and bottom up at the same time. She does this superbly. Each note has to lead, full, to the next full note, which echoes and fulfills the lyric. Masterful. Honorable mentions to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (a very different approach) and, knock me over with a feather, Tony Bennett of all people. But he does have that low/high split in his notes.

[@dennrb6640MK]

WTF?

[@yisuah]

영상감사합니다.댓글에 가사적어주신분도 감사해요~

[@chuckbeedle1983]

I wonder what they thought of the version of lately. They must giggle and say, we sis that way before you!! Its really our song!! lol

[@tommurphy901]

Awesome!

[@ray6342]

God Bless.

[@ejanocrowsnatcher]

This needs more views

[@shlmel]

😯 👏🏻👏🏼👏👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿

[@lesleeeastwood3323]

Thank you-

[@wotish]

Top gear Africa special brought me here

[@unclelouie3828]

Great!

[@jamesfeeney6295]

Bravo

[@hfvlachosful]

4.30 climb....but the previous is magical too in choir

[@diytom3448]

Chills

[@Neonfunfair]

Thank you :)

[@AlisonWAmes]

re Tatiana Troyanos: Sound of Music was just before she went to EUROPE to build her opera career. The MET came many years later (not till 1976 -- a LONG wait!).

[@acacia-bloom]

Alison W Ames How strange with Troyanos, as Patricia Neway sounds very similar to Troyanos with her quick vibrato and warm luscious chest voice!

[@ImVee10]

Peggy Wood's singing was dubbed in the movie by Margery McKay.

[@kristiinakehusmaa5333]

Mie saan voimaa Sound of music:in kappaleesta "Climb up the Mountain". Yllättävän usein sitä pitää nykyisin kuunnella ja voimaantua.

[@lostsoul3154]

Not sure what Order are, they're better-looking than any movie star I've seen!!

✨🎶💓 🦋

[@honaru]

すべての山に登りなさい 高い山も低い山も すべての脇道、 あなたの知っているすべての小道を歩いてみなさい すべての山に登りなさい すべての小川を渡り すべての虹を追いかけなさい あなたの夢をつかむまで 夢をかなえるためには あなたが与えられるだけの愛を与えること 生きている間は毎日、いつでも

[@melissamell1785]

É linda a letra, uma lição para a vida.

[@ImVee10]

Someone just wrote (12/5) that Audra MacDonald's Mother Abbess was the best ever. Um, she's fantastic but not even CLOSE to this!

[@mortner3669]

Audra McDonald can SING, but she also "Sing-Speaks," which I don't like. I also didn't like the way she varied the tempo . . . . THIS is what I grew up with and this is what I like!!!!

[@charleswhiterhodes]

Jeff Harvey How did you grow up with this? Did you see it on Broadway many times. Just curious about your comment.

[@mortner3669]

My mom had a record of the Broadway show with Mary Martin and she played it MANY MANY times . . .over and over :-)

[@jackiejns983]

I do love Audra, though!

[@jackiejns983]

Neway IS spectacular

[@scoottoujourspret743]

1:23 to 2:16 is the best part and version

[@drewgievan]

Wow

[@theburb08]

Patricia Neway - 1960 "Sound Of Music"

[@robertoaguiar8082]

How can someone dislike it????? 😔

[@karakusakuma]

I leave in Japanese. 歌ってる歌詞の意味を知りたいです。 日本語では「全ての山に登れ」ってタイトルで曲名が明記されてます。 宜しくお願いします。

[@chrisedmunds9272]

Listen to Neway's To This We've Come' from Menotti's "The Consul" for a breathtaking experience.

[@allenjones3130]

"The Consul" is a great opera, and Ms. Neway's performance in the starring role of Magda Sorel is a classic.

[@Zarastro54]

what is the hymn from the beginning?