CEDAR FALLS - The class starts with the children slowly patting their knees. The music changes ever so slightly and the patting moves upward to their stomachs, then their heads. Their movements ...

Carl Orff used simple melodies to teach kids to play music, including a street song from Medieval Bavaria in his Schulwerk collections. We'll enjoy some of them during our music today beginning at ...

Next week, the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri is introducing children to Orff Schulwerk. Orff Schulwerk is not a modern painter or sculptor, but a method for learning music. "Orff" comes from ...

Discover how Carl Orff transformed music education with the ... Carl Orff's legacy, the recorder in American schools. Posted: July 24, 2024 ... 4 things they always did when their kids were young.

In 1976, Canadian music teacher Hans Fenger was inspired by Orff's concept, and decided to commence on a project involving students from several elementary schools in the provincial Langley region ...

Meet the Orff rock band made up of a group of ambitious students in Portugal. The music club kids infuse the classic tune with unexpected instrument choices like xylophones, ...

"Eight hours of Orff is simply too much!" The speaker, a tall, lank-haired man in tweed jacket and maroon wool shirt, was none other than rehearsal-weary Carl Orff, Germany's most ...

Music from Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana,' featuring Marin Alsop conducting the Bournemouth Symphony, from a recording which will be released on the Naxos label in January 2007: If I could only take ...

Dozens of students from Manitoba and elsewhere gathered for a day of music and dance on Friday for the annual Orff Children’s Day event at Brandon University. As we navigate through ...

A San Francisco teacher will receive the Orff Schulwerk Pro Merito Award in Germany today. Doug Goodkin, head of the music department at the San Francisco School, a private elementary school, is ...