Beginning Solfège

Recorded at the 2024 National Conference.

Experience a Dalcroze education class from the 2010 National Conference.

Experience a Dalcroze education class from the 2010 National Conference.

2023 Conference Keynote Speaker Mary Dobrea-Grindahl addresses the question "So who are we?"

In this 75-minute collaboration, we will explore the idea of a personal inner tempo and then consider the challenge of “being music” that is at tempos more-than and less-than our authentic selves. How am I to feel the reality of another? With examples from Bach, La Bottine Souriante, and Satie, we will consider the difference between playing the notes of and being the music of another.

In this children's demo class, Ruth Alperson teaches musical concepts through movement and singing. Students learn musical phrases by moving and singing them, and then they notate them.