By Xulin Han QQ:962394412
(Prelude And The Sound Of Music - Maria)
The hills are alive with the sound of music.
With songs they have sung for a thousand years.
The hills fill my heart with the sound of music.
My heart wants to sing every song it hears.
My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds that rise from the lake to the trees.
My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies from a church on a breeze.
To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over stones on its way.
To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray.
I go to the hills when my heart is lonely.
I know I will hear what I've heard before.
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music.
And I'll sing once more.
Hallelujah,hallelujah...
Reverend Mother.
Sister Bernice.
I simply cannot find her.
Maria?
She's missing from the abbey again.
We should've put a cowbell around her neck.
Have you tried the barn? You know how much she adores the animals.
I have looked everywhere. In all of the usual places.
Sister, considering it's Maria I suggest you look in someplace unusual.
Well, Reverend Mother I hope this new infraction ends whatever doubts you may still have about Maria's future here.
I always try to keep faith in my doubts, Sister Berthe.
After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.
We are not talking about sheep, black or white, Sister Margaretta.
Of all the candidates for the novitiate, Maria is the least...
Children, children.
We were speculating about the qualifications of our postulants.
The Mistress of Novices and the Mistress of Postulants were trying to help me by expressing opposite points of view.
Tell me, Sister Catherine, what do you think of Maria?
She's a wonderful girl, some of the time.
Sister Agatha?
It's very easy to like Maria except when it's difficult.
And you, Sister Sophia?
Oh, I love her very dearly.
But she always seems to be in trouble, doesn't she?
Exactly what I say.
She climbs a tree and scrapes her knee her dress has got a tear.
She waltzes on her way to Mass and whistles on the stair.
And underneath her wimple she has curlers in her hair.
I've even heard her singing in the abbey.
She's always late for chapel but her penitence is real.
She's always late for everything except for every meal.
I hate to have to say it but I very firmly feel.
Maria's not an asset to the abbey.
I'd like to say a word in her behalf.
Say it, Sister Margaretta.
Maria makes me laugh.
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
How do you find a word that means Maria?
A flibbertigibbet.
A will-o'- the-wisp.
A clown.
Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her.
Many a thing she ought to understand.
But how do you make her stay and listen to all you say?
How do you keep a wave upon the sand?
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
When I'm with her I'm confused out of focus and bemused and I never know exactly where I am.
Unpredictable as weather.
She's as flighty as a feather.
She's a darling.
She's a demon.
She's a lamb.
She'll out pester any pest drive a hornet from its nest.
She can throw a whirling dervish out of whirl.
She is gentle, she is wild.
She's a riddle, she's a child.
She's a headache.
She's an angel.
She's a girl.
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
How do you find a word that means Maria?
A flibbertigibbet.
A will-o'- the-wisp.
A clown.
Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her.
Many a thing she ought to understand.
But how do you make her stay and listen to all you say?
How do you keep a wave upon the sand?
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
You may go in now, Maria.
Come here, my child.
Now sit down.
Reverend Mother, I'm sorry. I couldn't help myself. The gates were open and the hills were beckoning and before...
Dear.
I haven't summoned you for apologies.
Please let me ask for forgiveness.
If you'll feel better.
Yes, you see, the sky was so blue today and everything was so green and fragrant, I had to be a part of it.
The Untersberg led me higher and higher like it wanted me to go through the clouds.
Suppose darkness had come and you were lost?
Mother, I could never be lost up there.
That's my mountain. I was brought up on it.
It was the mountain that led me to you.
When I was a child, I would come down and climb a tree and look in your garden.
I'd see the sisters at work and hear them sing.
Which brings me to another transgression, Reverend Mother.
I was singing out there today without permission.
Maria, only in the abbey do we have rules about postulants singing.
I can't stop wherever I am.
Worse, I can't seem to stop singing things. Everything and anything I think and feel.
Some people will call that "honesty".
Oh, but it's terrible, Reverend Mother!
You know how Sister Berthe makes me kiss the floor after a disagreement? Lately, I kiss the floor when I see her coming to save time.
Maria when you saw us over the wall and longed to be with us that didn't mean you were prepared for the way we live here, did it?
No, Mother, but I pray and I try. And I am learning. I really am.
What is the most important lesson you have learned here my child?
To find out what is the will of God and do it wholeheartedly.
Maria it seems to be God's will that you leave us.
Leave?
Only for a while, Maria.
No, Mother! Please don't send me away! This is where I belong. It's my home, my family. It's my life.
Are you truly ready for it? - Yes, I am.
If you go out into the world for a time, knowing what we expect of you you will find out if you can expect it of yourself.
I know what you expect, Mother, and I can do it! I promise I can!
Maria.
Yes, Mother.
If it is God's will.
There is a family near Salzburg that needs a governess until September.
September?
To take care seven children.
Seven children?!
Do you like children Maria?
Yes, but seven!
I will tell Captain von Trapp to expect you tomorrow.
Captain?
A retired officer of the Imperial Navy. A fine man and a brave one.
His wife died,and he is alone with the children.I understand he has had a difficult time keeping a governess there.
Why difficult, Reverend Mother?
The Lord will show you in his own good time.
When the Lord closes a door somewhere He opens a window.
(I Have Confidence - Maria)
What will this day be like?
I wonder.
What will my future be?
I wonder.
It could be so exciting, to be out in the world, to be free.
My heart should be wildly rejoicing.
Oh, what's the matter with me?
I've always longed for adventure to do the things I've never dared.
Now here I'm facing adventure, then why am I so scared?
A captain with seven children.
What's so fearsome about that?
I must stop these doubts and worries.
If I don't I just know I'll turn back.
I must dream of the things I am seeking.
I am seeking the courage I lack.
The courage to serve them with reliance.
Face my mistakes without defiance.
Show them I'm worthy and while I show them. I'll show me, so let them bring on all their problems.
I'll do better than my best.
I have confidence. They'll put me to the test, but I'll make them see I have confidence in me.
Somehow I will impress them.
I will be firm but kind.
And all those children Heaven bless them. They will look up to me and mind me with each step I am more certain.
Everything will turn out fine.
I have confidence. The world can all be mine.
They'll have to agree I have confidence in me.
I have confidence in sunshine.
I have confidence in rain.
I have confidence that spring will come again.
Besides which you see I have confidence in me.
Strength doesn't lie in numbers.
Strength doesn't lie in wealth.
Strength lies in nights of peaceful slumbers.
When you wake up, wake up, it's healthy.
All I trust I leave my heart to.
All I trust becomes my own.
I have confidence in confidence alone.
Oh, help.
I have confidence in confidence alone.
Besides which you see I have confidence in me.