Beginning Orchestra with an Orff Schulwerk Approach

Redefining performance as the sharing of music and movement with someone outside the initial experience, the author shares some ways of working with multi-age classrooms in a Montessori school community. From holding space for Upper Elementary students to create and bloom to welcoming parents to join younger students in the Orff process and performance, Orff in a Montessori school is a potential field of wildflowers.

Orff Schulwerk, orchestra, performance, process, student-centered, creative