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Dear Friend of MusicWelcome . . .Hi to all our enews subscribers and welcome to our Spring edition of Musicnotes. And a very warm welcome to all our new subscribers and those wonderful folk we have met and shared our music with over the last few months. What’s New?In our last Musicnotes we mentioned the forthcoming release of our new album Your Stage. Well, it has finally arrived and so far the feedback has been excellent. Click here to order. About Your Stage
Students, who are marginalised in some way, usually have some social difficulties that sabotage their efforts of connection. This program provides and facilitates those connections while also actively developing self-esteem. Alongside self-esteem development, activities facilitate explicit teaching of social skills including team work, sharing, waiting, leading, copying, self expression, idea initiation and relaxation. To read more about this wonderful new resource click here What’s coming up?Together with Your Stage author Mary Brake we will be presenting workshops in Launceston and Hobart late October Hobart workshop: Monday, October 27th‘Undercroft’, Elizabeth College, 256 Elizabeth Street, Hobart. Launceston workshop: Tuesday, October, 28thNorwood Primary School Hall, Norwood Avenue, Norwood. For more info and to register click here Joy of Jammin'Sydney Part 2 Stage 1 November 14, 15, 16 2008 Presented by Susie Davies-Splitter SPECIAL OFFER for NSW OrffiansJoin in the fun of Jammin' and improvising the Orff way. You can now attend Part 2 of this exciting course purely as a weekend workshop of Professional Development in improvisation. ‘All in’ Jammin’ session, concert & information nightPromoting self expression, joy, confidence, well being and effective communication through musical improvisation. Sing, say, move, dance, play and create music that is accessible for all As part of the ‘Joy of Jammin’ course, we are offering a FREE ‘jammin’ evening for participants, their family and friends, anyone interested in doing the course in the future and anyone who loves music. The evening will consist of: ALL IN jammin’ session – just bring your instrument, voice or use a percussion instrument supplied – this is for everyone! No experience necessary. Information session – Susie will give a brief description of the philosophy behind the ‘Joy of Jammin’ course For bookings and further information – contact Susie@welcometomusic.net Click here to view the Joy of Jammin’ flier Register NOW with our NSWOSA administrator by emailing rosssam@tpg.com.au or contact susie@welcometomusic.net for further information What’s been happening?Whew – Just like the old song says ‘We’ve been everywhere man!’ In June we went up to the Gold Coast (well, someone had to do it!) and had the pleasure of working with students at All Saints Anglican school ‘Livewire festival’ during their Arts week and we actually met some famous Aussie authors! Mind you they also got to meet us so it was a real win win!
Music styles Masterclass for the middle years About 20 people turned up for the day – 2 secondary students, 2 tertiary students, primary and secondary teachers, instrumental./studio teachers as well as various musicians. People brought their clarinets, recorders, violins, guitars and keyboards – even a ukelele! As it was a day about ‘styles’ the workshop was divided into 3 parts – the blues, Latin/tango and Broadway musical genre. The day included singing, movement and dance, discussions about styles, demonstrations at the piano and lots of playing the ‘Orff’ instruments and participants’ instruments Session 1 – Blues and variations (pop and rock) History – origin of 12 bar blues The blues, or delta blues was a vibrant musical import from Africa to the Southern States of USA, and born out of slavery. This was set against a more traditional US ‘folk’ sound of the time of the early 20th century as presented by Foster and orchestrally displayed by Copeland. Given the basic nature of the blues instrumentation, guitars and harmonicas, blues became a heartfelt cry of the plight of the Afro-American slave and moved in a radically different direction to Negro Spiritual/Gospel. The basis of the Blues was a simple 3 chord progression, set over a 12 bar pattern, that continued for several verses. The simple idea was elaborated upon once migration had begun, and a greater sophistication occurred in instrumentation. Once Trad Jazz took hold and trombones, clarinets and trumpets became the popular musical form of the day, the Blues became a more upbeat, optimistic form of musical expression-Louis Armstrong is a great example of this. The harmonic vocabulary was the same, but the arrangement, tempo, lyrical content had more of a ‘swing’ feel, and less of a ‘shuffle’ feel. Click here to view full Masterclass notes Susie ran stage I of ‘The Joy of Jammin’ in Melbourne in July and we hope all of the participants are now happily improvising on a daily basis. She is hoping to run stage 2 next year so keep tuned for more information on that. In July as the first stage of a 2 month trip we presented at the Cairns Music conference where Phil gave his keynote on stress called "I'm Not Stressed - I Always Look Like This" which went over very well plus we presented 2 fun workshops.
From there we headed to LA for a few days to catch up with our good friend Lynn and Steve Kleiner and to visit her summer school there Music rhapsody which was lovely. We are planning joint workshops with Lynn in Oz for 2009 (see below for more info on this).Then it was off to Bologna, Italy for the 2008 ISME conference which was ‘hot hot hot’! Oh and the workshops were great as well as the networking with teachers and musos from all around the world. After that we were off to Taiwan to present workshops for the Chinese Orff Association of Taiwan on Taichung and Taipei – complete with translator! Everything went well except for some of Phil’s jokes which definitely got lost in translation.
Susie flew back for a week in August to present a workshop on our new resource ‘Your Stage’ for aMUSE before meeting Phil in Singapore where they spent almost 3 weeks presenting at several conferences, including an Early childhood conference and a Storytellers conference whey they unveiled prototypes of their new story books ‘The Firemans’ Barbeque’ and ‘Rocket Sam’ which will be available here very soon. (Yes, we will let you know!) Finally in early September we had the great pleasure of co-ordinating and presenting at the very first Orff conference in Singapore - MUSAIC (see report, below). On our return to Oz we weren’t home long before we were up in Sydney presenting at the ‘Lifestart’ early intervention conference, once again using some of our new songs from ‘Your Stage’ which were received very well. Just recently Susie presented at the Kindermusik conference on the Sunshine coast (what can we say?) and even more recently have been way out west in Port Fairy doing children’s shows at the Port Fairy consolidated school as part of the Spring music festival. Musaic 2008 – an international Orff Schulwerk Singposium in Singapore Musaic 08, was the first ‘Orff’ international conference in Singapore held over the 3rd to the 5th of September. Phil and I were privileged to help co-ordinate this historic event together with Patricia Koh, and her wonderful team from Pat’s Schoolhouse and Knowledge Universe. The guest presenters included – Doug Goodkin (USA), Denise Gagne (Canada), Sarah Brooke (Australia), Warren Wills (London), Susie Davies-Splitter & Phil Splitter (Australia) and Patricia Koh (Singapore). Other esteemed presenters from Australia and Singapore took electives – Ruth Friend, Beth Rankin, Susanne Khalek, Andrew Robertson, Carolyn and Allan Watson and Dr Ros McMillan. Click here to view full report
Would you like to attend one of our PLAYshops for free?We are always looking for good venues and someone on the ground to help us organise workshops around the country – so if you or anyone you know might have an appropriate space on Saturdays (ie: music room in a school) we would love to offer one or more free registrations in lieu. In particular we are looking to run joint workshops with Lynn Kleiner famous music educator from the US in August 2009 in Darwin, Alice Springs, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Tasmania so please let us know if you can help! phil@welcometomusic.net What people are sayingAbout Artist in Schools program
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