Welcome to the disorienting world of Carl Orff. In spite of Orff’s success, or perhaps because of it, histories of music seldom make more than a nod in his direction. And critical opinion has ...

Current approaches to elementary music, particularly Orff-Schulwerk, provide the experiences and techniques to guide students though the creative process. The emphasis on creativity and improvisation ...

Reported TIME Correspondent Paul Moor: “For a non-German-speaking audience, this opera has long, boring stretches because the music is so subservient to the text. Nevertheless, Orff has created ...

Orff Schulwerk is not a modern painter or sculptor, but a method for learning music. "Orff" comes from the last name of the method's creator, Carl Orff. The German music teacher first began to ...

Of all the musical one-hit wonders to emerge during the century just past, Carl Orff's may be the most striking case. He wrote voluminously (as well as concocting an elaborate pedagogical system ...