answers: the Mother Abbess
context: starting over again, Lily decides to leave, but she convinces Tom and Deladis to "go down the mountain" with her to make and sell phonograph recordings of mountain music. As they depart, Cyrus Whittle, a renowned professor from England, arrives on a collection foray of his own, ensuring that the ballads will be preserved in the manner that Lily had originally intended. The character of Viney Butler was based on Mary Jane Queen, whom Greenwald consulted when researching the film. The film's score was written by David Mansfield, who also assembled a roster of female country music artists to perform </s> Theola Kilgore Theola Kilgore (December 6, 1925 — May 15, 2005) was an American soul and gospel singer. Kilgore was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and was brought up in Oakland, California. She began singing in church. Her first recording, on which she was billed as Theola Kilgord, was as the featured vocalist on "Look To The Hills" by the Mount Zion Spiritual Choir, released in 1955. While working as a gospel singer in the late 1950s, she befriended Sam Cooke's talent manager, J. W. Alexander, who introduced her to singer and record producer, Ed Townsend. Her first secular recording was </s> Climb Ev'ry Mountain "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music." It is sung at the close of the first act by the Mother Abbess. It is themed as an inspirational piece, to encourage people to take every step toward attaining their dreams. This song shares inspirational overtones with the song "You'll Never Walk Alone" from "Carousel". They are both sung by the female mentor characters in the shows, and are used to give strength to the protagonists in the story, and both are given powerful reprises at the end
question: who was the person who sang climb every mountain in the sound of music