My Favorite Orff Schulwerk Sound Bites (and an accompanying speech piece)

by Russell Nadel    September 2022

Here are a few of my favorite sound bites when I am trying to describe the Orff Schulwerk approach…

Learn about music by making it, hands-on!

= Sound and feeling before symbol (see Soap Box below) = Experience it first!

If you can say it, you can play it 

Speech → body percussion → instruments, “Sing what you play. Play what you sing.” (Doug Goodkin)

President’s Message 2022

By Andrea Donahoe  September 2022

I’m not sure how the others do it. The non teachers. Of course, many people get some amount of time off. And then there is the marking of time by celebrating the new calendar year, the Lunar New Year, and each birthday as we circle round the sun. But no cycle feels quite as satisfying and complete as the school year, which also demands the proper amount of time to reset. Each August a fresh start, a chance to begin again, and with the guarantee, marked clear on the calendar, of when we’ll tie up all the loose ends of the deep work of the year, hug each other tightly, and say so long, for now.