American Orff Schulwerk Association

The American Orff Schulwerk Association (AOSA) brings together Orff Schulwerk educators from the United States and from over thirty nations around the world. Key School's membership in this organization affords Key's music faculty the opportunity to participate in the many workshops and conferences offered by AOSA. Indeed, because of Key's long history with Orff Schulwerk and the School's expertise in teaching its approach, Key's faculty is sought after by the Association to present nationally and internationally as clinicians as well as to teach graduate level Orff Schulwerk Certification courses at multiple universities across the country during the summer months.

Key’s Orff Schulwerk program is recognized by many as the most comprehensive in the country if not the world.

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Highlights

  • The Foundation and Educational Philosophy of Orff-Schulwerk

    Brigitte Warner, teacher of Orff-Schulwerk at Key since 1970, retired in 1993.

    Carl Orff, a 20th century composer and music educator, developed an approach to teaching music in the early 1920's.

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  • Brigitte Warner

    "Orff Schulwerk... puts us in touch with our musical beginnings, roots most of us lost contact with long ago, but to which the child is still able to respond." Brigitte Warner

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  • Fifth Graders Perform in Philadelphia

    Mrs. Schrader conducts the fifth graders during the performance in Philadelphia

    Key School's fifth grade, a class of 51 students, performed before hun­dreds of music teachers from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe at the Annual Conference of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association.

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  • Key Administrator Invited to Speak at National Conference

    Key music faculty Kathy Lingo, David Sunshine, Rick Layton, Jacque Schrader, and Erin Castner pose with Mary Jane Milner (third from the left) at the conference

    Lower School Head Mary Jane Milner was invited to speak at the 1996 National Conference of the American Orff Schulwerk Association held early last November in Memphis, Tennessee.

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  • Orff Schulwerk: On Stage and Behind the Scenes

    Typically a spring event, this year's Lower School music performance was held in December. Integrated with their curricular work in language arts/social studies classes, third graders presented an enactment of Noah and the Ark.

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