Music education events are happening all the time in our area. This blog will keep you updated so you'll never miss a beat.
This event summary comes to us from ace reporter Zack Henderson, one of several students who attended the Orff Workshop last week.
"On
Sept. 8, 2012, students (and professors) of Dr. Montgomery's Elementary
General Music Methods class journeyed to the Waldorf School of
Baltimore to attend a workshop on the Orff approach to music education.
The event was coordinated by the Greater Baltimore Orff Schulwerk (https://sites.google.com/site/greaterbaltimoreorff/) and was entitled "Propelling
To Pleasure and Purpose: Releasing the Greatness in Children Through
the Orff Schulwerk Approach." The clinician was Judith Thomas Solomon, a
veteran Orff-Schulwerk teacher, author, and certifier from Nyack, NY.
Ms.
Thomas highlighted her personal views through her acronym PRISMS
(Playing of elemental instruments; Rhythmic exploration; Improvisation;
Speech play; Movement; Singing). The Orff-Schulwerk approach seeks to synthesize these elements and to shift the classroom environment from didactic to evocative, and students are able to construct a personal learning experience.
Favorite lessons from the workshop include:
– Drama: Frog's and Toad's Random Acts of Kindness
– Group/Class Creations: Using a silly story or writing on a t-shirt to create speech pattern games
– Eastern Birdsong in improvisation games
– “Turn the World Around:” a 20-minute world music rondo featuring music and dance from England, Bulgaria, Greece, Bolivia, S. Africa, Ghana, and the United States.
– The Three Little Pigs in 5/4
– A motivating introduction to soprano recorder
Our class had a wonderful experience attending this workshop. Judith Thomas brings brilliant energy and creative spirit to her lessons, and helped to share with us the vision that Carl Orff had for modern music education."
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