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2008 Summer Music Teachers
Conference June 30 - July 4; Sunbridge College, Chestnut Ridge, NY
This 9th Annual Waldorf Music Conference is an exciting
opportunity for Waldorf teachers to deepen their understanding of the Waldorf
music curriculum. Music and class teachers alike gather to make music and to
inspire one another. Our visiting guest teacher, Thomas Adam, will be sharing
his innovative and creative approaches to music making through deepening our
practice of singing and listening, leading us in many forms of singing,
listening, improvisation and exploring the new instruments. Afternoons are
devoted to conversation, music-making and sharing ideas about music curriculum
and other vital issues concerning Waldorf music education. A special evening of
music sharing will be planned, as well as open meetings of the Association of
North American Waldorf Music Educators.
ANAWME members will receive a $30
discount off the registration fee.Join now and this savings will cover your full dues ($30)!
If you have any music sharing ideas for the
conference or have any questions about the conference or how to join ANAWME,
please contact Andrea Lyman at themusicpainter.gmail.com THOMAS ADAM is currently the
Director of word-wide Therapeutic Singing courses and has been a Singing
Therapist at Windrather-Talschule, Bochum, Germany since 2000. He trained with
Jurgen Schriefer in the School for Uncovering the Voice. From 1977-1979, he
studied anthroposophy and Waldorf Pedagogy at the Goetheanum in Dornach,
Switzerland.
A must for all Waldorf Music teachers! Also accessible to class teachers, specialists and administrators! Inspiring, informative and fun- don't miss it!
Music courses with Manfred Bleffert being offered for the first time in the USA!!
The
work of Manfred Bleffert is known in the States through the delicate
tones of his gongs, glockenspiel, cymbals and other percussion
instruments. For the last thirty years, Manfred Bleffert has been
working throughout Europe as a composer, musician, painter and sculptor.
For the first time Manfred will offer artistic courses in the United
States in the summer of 2008. From July 28 to August 16, four courses
will be held in Santa Rosa, California: a three-week Music Training and
three one-week courses in Instrument Building, Painting and Sculpture,
and Pedagogical Study through the Arts. This innovative artistic work
will serve as a vehicle for developing new experiences of the world and
one's own humanity. Through contemplative work, each participant will
gain deeper insights into the processes and products of the arts. Each
course will be a transformative experience!
Bleffert's concert at Grace
Cathedral in San Francisco has just been scheduled for
8/17/08!
Tim Allen
707-332-3432
timothyallen1@mac.com
16th Annual Movement Education Conference: Dancing Through the Grades
with Stephen Kotansky and Jaimen McMillan.
July 23-27, 2008
Hudson /Up River Site, Mechanicville, NY
Dance plays a
key role in developing movement and social skills as part of a
child’s education. Stephen Kotansky is an internationally
recognized expert on ethnic dances, giving workshops around the
globe, and has been teaching dances at the Green Meadow
Waldorf School for 15 years. Jaimen McMillan is the director
and founder of the Spacial Dynamics Institute and has
been a pioneer in the field of dynamic
age-appropriate activities for the growing child. In this
workshop, we will learn a spectrum of dances that are developmentally
appropriate for grades one through eight and will explore how the forms
that are moved can support other subjects and processes that a child
will move through. Music sets the rhythm, the forms are the social
skeletons, and balance imparts a feeling of being at peace in
one’s self and connected to what is
around. All are welcome to join in, and if you missed this when you
were growing up, it is not too late to learn. Tuition is
$500 and the course begins at 7:30pn on the first night and
concludes at 12:00 noon on the last day. May we have
the next dance? For information and to register, contact
sdiadmissions@earthlink.net or 518-695-6377.
The New Song of the Heart: A SANA
Conference
The Singing Association of North America (SANA) invites
you to a conference on February 21-23, 2008 at the RudolfSteinerCollege in Fair Oaks, California. (SANA represents The School for Uncovering the
Voice, based on the principles of Valborg Werbeck-Svardstrom.)
The organizers write: “In the terminology of the
mysteries, ‘The New Song’ means a new step of development in the realm of the
social. A new awareness and sense for the needs of all the creatures around us
can arise out of the warmth and depth of our hearts, when they awaken through
the sound of the new song, the power of pure love.
How can singing in the sense of ‘The School of
Uncovering the Voice’ teach us this? Can we bring this quality into the world
through our song?”
The conference will include lectures by Dennis Klocek,
singing exercises and lectures with Thomas Adam, and choral singing with Eva
Cranstoun, as well as workshops designed for those of varying experience, of
interest to amateur and professional singers, instrumentalists, teachers, and
therapists.
For information, contact Robin Elliott at 707-829-2409
or songlyrel@aol.com (Attn: SANA conference).
Toward Genuine Tuning: Second Annual
Conference
The second annual Toward Genuine Tuning conference will
take place May 8-11, 2008, in Spring
Valley, N.Y. (See the
report on the first conference on page 3 of these Lyre Notes.) Participants will
experience and work with the new way of tuning developed by Maria Renold on the
basis of suggestions by Rudolf Steiner. There will be sessions devoted to
supervised practical application. Bevis Stevens will again lead the conference,
collaborating with Paul Davis and Daniel Hafner.
A special highlight of the second conference will be a
performance by The Light Eurythmy ensemble from Domach, Switzerland. This ensemble
specializes in working with a different way of lighting and with plant dyed
gowns, veils and curtains, as well as with this new way of tuning musical
instruments.
For more information, contact Daniel Hafner at
dhafrer1964@hotmail.com or Laura Langforct-Schnur (845-469-2227 or
langfordschnur@frontiernet.net).
Waldorf Certificate and Master's
Degree options for Music Teachers
Sunbridge
College
is currently accepting applications for the upcoming cycle of its
Part-time Teacher Education Program, which includes tracks
for music teachers, class teachers and foreign language
teachers.
Director: Stephan Vdoviak, with Coordinators Cat Greenstreet,
George MacWiiliam, Jana McFee, and Sydney Morrell
The Sunbridge College Part-Time Teacher Education Program is a
professional development opportunity for practicing Waldorf educators
and those who wish to become Waldorf teachers but are currently unable
to participate in a full-time program. It gives a
philosophical,
artistic, and practical foundation for Waldorf class and subject
teaching. It involves an integrated, three-year program of
coursework, with classes convening for three weeks each summer, one
week each fall, and one week each spring.
The program is unique in that it provides a forum for class teachers
and subject teachers (music, foreign language) to interact as they take
the same core courses in Waldorf pedagogy, inner development, and many
of the arts. This enables them to explore and understand the
different yet essential roles class teachers and subject teachers play
in the education of children.
To request a brochure or ask questions please contact Sunbridge College
845-425-0055
THOMAS ADAM is currently the
Director of word-wide Therapeutic Singing courses and has been a Singing
Therapist at Windrather-Talschule, Bochum, Germany since 2000. He trained with
Jurgen Schriefer in the School for Uncovering the Voice. From 1977-1979, he
studied anthroposophy and Waldorf Pedagogy at the Goetheanum in Dornach,
Switzerland. 
The
work of Manfred Bleffert is known in the States through the delicate
tones of his gongs, glockenspiel, cymbals and other percussion
instruments. For the last thirty years, Manfred Bleffert has been
working throughout Europe as a composer, musician, painter and sculptor.