Creating New Blends - Adelaide 2010

Presenter	Session Title	Session Description
Sarah Brooke	Is This What Orff Meant?	This discussion paper will focus on the frequently asked question 'What is Orff?'. If this question were asked of recognised Orff practitioners across the globe, we may find that answers vary. I suggest that Orff can mean different things to different people. However, what common threads do we see as essential to this approach? This discussion will look at these threads through the viewing (DVD) of a children's performance from China.
Mandy Carver	Look again and find our connections	In the global village educators are presented with a baffling selection of possible material for their classrooms. It is a tall order to not only blend world music into work schemes, but to respectfully pay attention to the cultural aesthetics of the music in doing so.
Marco Fanti	New Cognitive Challenges from Choral Music	Choral music is an essential aspect of music teaching, from infancy to mature age. As for many students the choral ensemble is their only music class, the role of the conductor-teacher is extremely delicate, complex, because it is necessary to continuously create new blends in order to answer new challenges.
Sue Lane	Engaging in Difference: Building Acceptance through Creative Arts (5-14 years)	This paper considers the value of Creative Arts in Education, reporting on findings from a community research project where Creative Arts and Geography were linked in an effort to resist stereotyping and to encourage open-mindedness towards others.
Dr. Pamela Stover	Creating the Orff Schulwerk: From Günther Schule to Musik für Kinder (All-general interest)	This historical paper highlights the developments of the Orff-Schulwerk from the 1920s through the 1950s using primary source materials from the Orff Center, Munich. Focus will be on the Günther Schule, the pageant to the Berlin Olympics, early course for children, and the “Kinder Musizieren” radio program that lead to the publication of “Musik für Kinder.”
Gerard Van de Geer	Providing a significant instrumental blend, marimbas within the Orff instrumentarium	Providing a significant instrumental blend, marimbas within the Orff instrumentarium. This paper presentation reports on the findings from my M.Ed (Hons) research project into the lived experience of students participating in Marimba Mania an annual interschool ensemble performance

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