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Past and Future
Dates to Remember!
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Music Performances
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Becky's Class - 28 February, 2008
(New Date!!!)
"Stomp for the Planet "
A stomp-based musical performance!
Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 6:30 PM
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Patti's Class - 15 May, 2008
A musical performance based upon
a mythological story created by the class!
Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 6:30 PM
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Lower Elementary Classes - 23 April, 2008
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Multi-Cultural music and dance performances
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Wednesday, April 23rd at 5:30 PM
Mary's, Jeffrey's and Holly's classes
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Wednesday, April 23rd at 6:30 PM
Sarah's and Jenny's classes
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All performances will be located in the Community Montessori Gym.
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Special Guest
Presentations!
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On March 5, to celebrate the upcoming St. Patrick's day holiday and an introduction
to our new guitars, Paul Roberts visited the Upper-Elem. music
classes. He presented a colorful history of the holiday and taught three guitar chords,
while singing his favorite Irish folk tune. He teaches locally in Boulder. For more information,
go to paulrobertsguitar.com
(link opens in new window).
Project Drum performed for the whole school on November 14, 2007.
Their highly energetic, amazing performance included drumming, singing and dancing from Guinea,
West Africa. They teach on-going classes for children and adults in drumming, dance and
balafon (similar to a xylophone) at their studio in Boulder (located at 5589 Arapahoe, Suite 102).
Please visit their web site at projectdrum.com
(link opens in new window).
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Music Program
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Music at Community Montessori is influenced by the Orff-Schulwerk process. The
"Orff" model blends so well with the Montessori philosophy since it encourages
a hands-on approach to creativity. It also emphasizes the experience of the music first,
before it is defined on a conscious level. Schulwerk means schooling in music through
activity and creativity. Orff is the last name of a composer, Carl Orff, who together
with Gunild Keetman, created the material and ideas to use as models for teachers all
over the world. The "volumes", as they are referred to by music teachers,
are now translated into 18 languages. Presently, there are over 10,000 teachers in the
United States who use the Orff process as the vehicle to bring music to children.
Students are constantly active using poems, rhymes, games, songs and dances as their mode
of expression. All these elements may be accompanied by drums, and various other non-melodic
percussion and/or the "instrumentarium" of melodic percussion: xylophones,
metallophones and glockenspiels.
Eleanor Farjeon, the music teacher at Community Montessori is certified in three levels of
Orff-Schulwerk in addition to having Creative Dance, African Drumming, Kodaly training and
Bachelors & Masters degrees in Music Education.
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