OUR SMALL corner of Maryland is receiving international attention this week. The Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria, has sent a videographer to Gorman Crossing Elementary School to film music classes ...

Carl Orff, composer and music educator, was born in 1895 in Munich, Germany, and died in 1982, but his Schulwerk Method lives on in the world of Music Education. The Orff Schulwerk Method is a ...

The Orff teaching method sounds like something Kermit the Frog might try on Sesame Street, but more and more music teachers are using the technique to catch their pupils’ attention. Part singing, ...

CEDAR FALLS - The class starts with the children slowly patting their knees. The music changes ever so slightly and the patting moves upward to their stomachs, then their heads. Their movements ...