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 ...

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 ...

Bedford County elementary-school students are hooked on Orff. The school system spent about $30,000 from the 2005-06 school year budget to buy every elementary school basic instruments used with the ...

Kent City Elementary music teacher Jane Burcon has received national attention for using Orff-Schulwerk* methods in her classroom. Orff methodology, founded by musician composer and teacher Carl Orff, ...

Peggy Wise has devoted much of her life to offering the Suzuki and Orff methods of musical instruction to children. She always believed that the younger the student, the better, but even she used to ...

Carl Orff (1895-1982) must be counted one of the most successful of twentieth- century composers. Carmina Burana is performed every day of the year and Schulwerk (Schoolwork), his method for teaching ...

About the Album: The pieces recorded in Musica Poetica are performed in the playful and creative style intended by the composer. Artistic director of the recording, Wilfried Hiller, has ...