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Orff Class Comes to HSU

• By Dave Coffield
• Posted January 17, 2008 9:45 AM
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Hardin-Simmons University will host an elementary Music Workshop with Orff Schulwerk clinician Chris Judah-Lauder, on the University campus, Monday, Jan 21, for area elementary music teachers.

Chris Judah-Lauder

The Orff Schulwerk method is a process which incorporates singing, instrument playing, and rhythmic play into a process for children to create and perform music. The workshop will focus on ways to establish a positive learning atmosphere that will enable and encourage students to work to their potential in playing, creating, and extending musical compositions. Attendees will work with an assortment of barred instruments and drums, using both sacred and secular material. Teachers will have hands-on opportunities to experience the Orff process, and will receive a packet of materials suitable for use in public school and church music programs.

Chris Judah-Lauder teaches fifth through eighth grade music at Good Shepherd Episcopal School in Dallas, TX where she received the Teacher of the Year Award in 2001. She has served on the National Board for the American Orff Schulwerk Association as a Regional Representative and Local Conference Co-chair. She has recently been elected to serve as the National Co-Chair for the 2009 National American Orff Schulwerk Conference in Milwaukee.

Judah-Lauder practicing rhythmic play with her students

She is a composer and an active nationally known clinician. She teaches Orff teacher training courses, in-service staff developments and presents workshops for “children’s music in church� throughout the United States. Chris has presented at 7 National Orff Conferences.

Chris also directs three middle school music ensemble groups that have been featured at international and national conferences including the opening session at the 1995 National Orff-Schulwerk Conference.

Her publications include Spotlight on Music (Macmillan/McGraw), to drum, Canya Conga, Fun with Boomwhackers®, Hand Drums on the Move, Boom Boom Classic ,Boom Boom Holiday Fun, Keeping It Simple, Sounds n’ Beats, Hands on Recorder Bk 2, the video Hand Drums and More, and she is a contributing author for Spotlight on Music. Chris also has a video presentation on “Hand Drums and More� available from the American Orff Schulwerk Association library.

The workshop grants 3 hours of advanced academic training credit and will be held in the HSU Hemphill Building choir room from 9:00 a.m. until noon. Registration is $30. Music educators, children’s music ministers, Music Education majors, and home educators may register at the door or by sending a check to Dr. Leigh Anne Hunsaker, Hardin-Simmons University, Box 16230, Abilene, TX 79698.

Please make checks payable to HSU-MENC. For further information, contact Dr. Hunsaker, HSU Music Education department head and director of Graduate Studies Programs at 670-1391.