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NCAKE Workshop with Sanna Longden - February 6, 2010
No Child Left on His or Her Behind: World Singing Games and Folk Dances for the Music Classroom
Saturday, February 6, 9:30 am - 3:00 pm
San Francisco Day School, 350 Masonic Ave., San Francisco
Sanna Longden is an internationally renowned world dance teacher and multicultural movement educator from Evanston, Illinois. Her lessons illustrate how dance and movement can encourage community, civility and cooperative teamwork, as well as creativity, concentration, and cultural and curriculum connections. Sanna's NCAKE workshop will focus on singing games in many languages and on dances performed with recorded music. To register, or for more information, click here.
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NCAKE Workshop with Lydia Mills and Arwen de Castellanos - October 3, 2009
Bringing Spanish Music into Your Classroom!
Saturday, October 3, 9:30 am - 1:00 pm
Cal State East Bay, Hayward, Arts and Education Buildin, Rm 142 (Use Parking lots H and K)
Arwen de Castellanos and Lydia Mills, both performers of traditional Latin American music and classroom music teachers, bring a lively workshop with lovely melodies and fun-filled Spanish language games for your classroom. New repertoire for use with the early elements so-mi, la, ta, titi, and rest will be presented, as well as more advanced traditional singing games from regions of Mexico, Argentina, Puerto Rico and Peru for older students.
Lydia will also report on her introductory Kodály workshops in Puerto Rico, Peru, and Colombia and on the rapidly growing interest from music teachers from all over Latin America in Kodály’s approach to teaching music to children. For more information, click here.
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42nd HNU Kodaly Summer Institute - July 12-30, 2010
Holy Names University's Kodaly Summer Institute offers an introduction to Kodaly philosophy, including musician ship training, conducting, curriculum development, pedagogical techniques, and materials for teaching. Course work within the institute can be applied towards Kodaly Summer Certification, the Master's Degree in Music Education, or the Kodaly Specialist Certificate. Classes meet daily, Monday-Friday, from 8 am to 4:30 pm.
Faculty: Gemma Arguelles, Judit Hartyanyi, Anne Laskey, Helene Matters, Ildiko Salgado, Fran Smith.
For more information, visit here
You may also email laskey@hnu.edu or call 510-436-1234.
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NCAKE Workshop with Kit Eakle - April 4, 2009
Music Listening in the Elementary Classroom
Saturday, April 4, 2009, 9:30 am - 1:00 pm
Reed Elementary School, 1199 Tiberon Blvd., Tiburon, CA
Kit will present principles of Music Listening in the classroom and demonstrate ways listening can be tied to all subject areas in today’s schools. The presentation will include a survey of children’s literature connecting to compositions suitable for elementary school listening; ways to implement a school-wide listening program; activities for focusing children’s listening; and a survey of currently available music listening programs, including the presenters own book “Listen to the Music — a classroom listening guide.” Specific connections between listening and the Kodály curriculum will also be suggested. Attendees will take part in “ears-on” listening activities and many examples of music of the highest quality for classroom listening. For more information, click here.
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HNU Kodaly Center blog invite
To stay in touch with the Kodaly Center, visit The HNU Kodaly Center blog. The blog contains similar features to our newsletters of the past, including Kodály Center and Alumni news, a calendar of events and photos. You can also respond to postings by leaving your own comments for others to view. We're open to suggestions about how the blog can be more effective in creating dialogue among those interested in promoting Kodály’s goals.
If you subscribe to the blog you will receive an email when new postings are made. Please note: In order for your subscription to be completed, you must reply to an email confirmation.
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NCAKE Workshop with Jerry Jaccard - January 31, 2009
Rejoice in the Rhythm of the Seasons! Seasonal Celebrations for Classrooms and Concerts
Saturday, January 31, 9:30 am - 3 pm (Registration: 9am)
California Room, Durocher Hall
Holy Names University, 3500 Mountain Blvd., Oakland, CA
Jerry L. Jaccard is Coordinator of the Elementary Music Education Program and Director of the InterMuse Academy for Kodály Certification at the Brigham Young University School of Music, Provo, Utah. Dr. Jaccard will present a wide variety of customs, celebrations and rituals and discuss how they may be used in our school music programs.
For more information, visit The NCAKE Web Page or call 510-836-5435.
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Early Childhood Music Workshops with Helga Dietrich - July, 2009
The Role of Singing Games in Early Childhood Education - Saturdays, July 11 & 18, 9:30-5:00
Nurturing Musical Creativity in Young Children - Monday-Friday, July 13-17 <6:00-8:30 pm
Holy Names is delighted to announce the return of Helga Dietrich, internationally recognized as one of the most creative and dynamic figures in the field of early childhood music education. In these sessions, she will present materials for teaching, techniques for developing musical responsiveness and creativity, and goals for music education in early childhood inspired by Zoltán Kodály’s philosophy. Videotapes of work with children will allow participants to observe these techniques in practice.
For more information, click here.
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41st HNU Kodaly Summer Institute - July 6-24, 2009
Holy Names University's Kodaly Summer Institute offers an introduction to Kodaly philosophy, including musician ship training, conducting, curriculum development, pedagogical techniques, and materials for teaching. Course work within the institute can be applied towards Kodaly Summer Certification, the Master's Degree in Music Education, or the Kodaly Specialist Certificate. Classes meet daily, Monday-Friday, from 8 am to 4:30 pm.
Faculty: Gemma Arguelles, Helga Dietrich, Judit Hartyanyi, Anne Laskey, Helene Matters, Ildiko Salgado, Fran Smith.
The registration brochure is available here
For more information please email laskey@hnu.edu or call 510-436-1234.
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40th Anniversary Celebration - July 24-27, 2008
The HNU Kodaly Center's 40th Anniversary Celebration, Music for Everyone: Envisioning a Musical Culture, attracted over 50 returning faculty and alumni who joined this year's participants in the final days of the 2008 Kodaly Summer Institute. The list of returning faculty was imipressive: Erzsebet Hegyi, Toni Locke, Sarolta Platthy, Ivy Rawlins Ward, Rita Klinger, Judy Johnson, Anne Comiskey, Judit Hartyanyi, Helga Dietrich, Gail Needleman and Caroline Fraser. The Opening Ceremonies provided a powerful testament to the significance of this unique program, with speeches by HNU President Rosemarie Nassif, International Kodaly Society President Gilbert De Greeve and Vice President Jerry Jaccard '76, an award from the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture (accepted by Sr. Mary Alice Hein, founder of the Kodaly Center) and a performance by Chanticleer, San Francisco's preeminent men't vocal ensemble. The celebration concluded with a choral concert directed by Judit Hartyanyi from the Liszt Academy featuring several of Kodaly's compositions: Straw Guy, Ave Maria (1898), Epigrams #6 and #7, Norwegian Girls, Psalm 114 and three Hungarian folksongs.
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