Which songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein do you think will still be played and loved a hundred years from now?

The last of the musicals by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, The Sound of Music, made its debut nearly half a century ago, on November 16, 1959. Their string of hits began in 1943 with “Oklahoma!” Songs from all their Broadway shows and films have entered the repertoire of best-known and loved American music. I doubt there’s anyone in the U.S. who hasn’t heard at least some of their songs, whether they know it or not.

Of all their many familiar tunes, romantic ballads, lively comedic pieces, melancholy and contemplative, light-hearted and fun, solos and duets and choruses, which ones do you nominate for classic status? Which do you think have the staying power to remain in performance repertoires in another century, continue selling in whatever medium we play our music in then, be learned by kids in school chorus and band, and be hummed and sung by ordinary people as they go about their lives?