Chapter Sharing:
Crystal Estey
&
Mary McKenney
Sat., Feb. 16
9 am - 12 noon, followed by our annual pot luck lunch & chapter officers' meeting
Crystal Estey
"Putting
It Together:
Exploring Musical Forms Using the Orff Process"
In
this workshop we will use singing, saying, dancing and playing to help
students understand how music is structured, and to help students use these
concepts to create their own music.
The recently wedded Crystal Estey is extremely excited to share some of the
things she has learned with the amazing teachers that make up the
chapter of AOSA.
read the notes on the staff before learning to read English. She had the
fortunate opportunity to attend an elementary school that embraced the ideas
of Carl Orff and thus was exposed to the Schulwerk at an early age, and was
raised with the concept of student centered learning. Throughout her
education, she has been an active member in orchestra, band, choir, theater
and dance. She has her bachelors in Music Education through
education through our fantastic workshops here in
the national conferences in the fall, and through the fantastic kids she has
a chance to work with every day!
Mary McKenney
"Recorder
Tips"
Mary
McKenney has been teaching elementary music for
more-than-thirty-less-than-forty years. She has taught in both public and
private schools in
Mary Institute and
from
Letterman, who also was a student there). Mary is a certified Orff
Schulwerk teacher, taking her certification levels at both
playing the recorder for most of her life, and has performed with the St.
Louis Early Music Band and the Westminster Consort.
Crystal & Mary are both members of the Orff performance ensemble "Variations" (formerly known as "Shapes"). To see video clips of "Variations", click on their logo below.
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