• A creative chemistry builds between the musician and the music, the artist and the emerging work, between performers and audience. Back and forth, each informs and inspires the other.

  The Magical Mind of the Young Child
• Engaging the School-Age Mind
• Inspiring the Adolescent and Adult Mind
• Addressing Learning Problems
• Arts Awaken the Mind
• Alternative Education
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Arts Awaken the Mind

Introducing the Arts

22. The Inner Dynamics of Creativity
23. Art and the Making of Mind
24. Movement, Meaning and the Mind
25. Music’s Gifts to the Developing Mind
26. Meeting the World with Music
27. Falling in Love with Music: Styles and Stages
28. The Practice Effect and other Mysteries
29. In Defense of Music
30. Unfolding Through Music
31. The Inner Gesture of Music
32. The Brain’s Timetable for Developing Musical Skills [a 16-page booklet]

Introducing the Arts

For all who have been touched by the arts and know the joy, the healing and the opportunity to find one’s own expression that they can offer–especially for those who are exploring and developing their own creativity or guiding the creative development of others, and those who want to understand what makes the arts so important. For music and art teachers • movement specialists • parents • administrators • community arts leaders • school boards • educational & professional lending libraries

22. The Inner Dynamics of Creativity

This extremely popular tape explores the very roots of creativity and the relation-ships between the body, mind and heart. What is the inner gesture quality that inspires creative expression? How can we incubate ideas effectively and know that is what we are doing? What can help elegant compositions arise from that incubation process? And how can we sustain the rigor needed to be productive?

Studio interview designed for radio broadcast.
93 min. $11.95 (This tape also listed in child development section of catalog)

23. Art and the Making of Mind

This inspiring talk explores the gift of art throughout the child’s life from fascinated preschooler through the growing imagination and hunger for imagery of the elementary school learner and on to the emotionally intense and sensitive adolescent artist who longs to come to expression in the world. The art teacher serves as a steward of the eyes, a champion of beauty and truth and a servant of the developing mind of the learner. This tape has many surprising and exciting ideas to inspire the imagination of the teacher of the arts.

Keynote address: Four Corners Art Educators Assn., Denver.
73 min. $10.95

24. Movement, Meaning and the Mind (two tapes)

This two tape talk soars into uncharted territories as it links neurological findings, subtle observations of children and the work of Rudolf Steiner regarding the special senses of balance, movement, the sense of life itself and the sense of touch. The audience had a pioneering spirit that invited this lively talk. Wonderful tapes for those who love to stretch their minds and imaginations and explore new and important questions.

Keynote address: Educational Kinesiology Fdn. conference,Greeley, Colorado.
136 min. $19.50 for set (sold as set only)

25. Music’s Gifts to the Developing Mind

Touching the school age child with music is truly a gift. Music can reawaken the body to a sense of wonder, encourage each child and each culture to sing out and be heard and give the mind a taste for the brilliance that is embedded in all great music. This tape offers brain research to support the wisdom that all music teachers intuitively know resides in music.

Audience: Orff Schulwerk national conference, Detroit.
73 min. $10.95

26. Meeting the World with Music

Music prepares the young child to meet the world more fully and more joyously. The teacher who commits to bringing music to children can play an important part in helping them develop their movement skills, their love of music and their ability to cooperate and experience community. This tape explores the importance of introducing music to the young child from l8 months to 7 years of age.

Keynote address: Kindermusik® national conference, Chicago.
73 min. $10.95

27. Falling in Love with Music: Styles and Stages

This talk gives a very rich picture of the developing mind and temperament of the school age learner. It offers a special focus on the basic temperaments of their musical minds, their special gifts, obstacles and needs. It also explores the ways children come to music at different ages, what teachers can call forth from them and how to sustain their love of music throughout their musical education. This magical journey can just as easily and usefully be applied to any other art or academic subject.

Keynote address: Kansas Music Teachers Assn. conference.
73 min. $10.95 (This tape also listed in child development section.)

28. The Practice Effect and other Mysteries

This talk has a rich dialogue between Dee Coulter and her 15 year old son, Scott. For years, her tapes have included "Scottie stories". Now, for the first time, they share the podium as they discuss the mystery of practice, the biological breakthroughs that lead to new skills, and other experiences from the piano student’s perspective.

Audience: attendees, Kansas Music Teachers Assn. conference
63 min. $9.95

29. In Defense of Music

Budget cuts are forever in the air and music programs seem especially vulnerable but much needs to be said in defense of music. Many of the current trends in education fail to support aspects of the developing child’s mind, making a rich music education all the more crucial. This tape explores the important ways a music program can support brain development and strengthen a child’s cognitive potential.

Audience: Orff Schulwerk sponsored workshop, Denver.
93 min. $11.95

30. Unfolding through Music

Kindling a love of music and keeping it alive is very important and can be difficult. Often it is not what we teach but when we teach it that determines our success in the music classroom. Through this tape, the teacher can gain a deeper sense for the pattern of unfolding musical abilities at each age. The ideas can be very helpful in building an effective music curriculum.

Audience: Orff Schulwerk sponsored workshop, Denver.
93 min. $11.95

31. The Inner Gesture of Music

Why do orchestra conductors live so long? Side one of this tape investigates the inner experiences of music, the ways in which our bodies carry out "inner gestures". Let your mind play with ways to tap the power and potential of these inner gestures for education. Could music actually lead the way in developing a set of rich new cognitive capacities? Is music an inner aerobics that can awaken a sleeping mind? Side two of this tape offers a rich array of general remarks to music educators.

Audience: Orff Schulwerk sponsored workshop, Denver.
63 min. $9.95

32. The Brain’s Timetable for Developing

Musical Skills [a 16-Page Booklet]

This booklet began as an extensive article that was published in the Orff Echo and reprinted in the Ohio General Music Journal. It looks at musical skill development in light of current brain science information and contains many useful suggestions for teaching children at each developmental stage.

16 page booklet $4.50 (Please note: this is not an audiotape.)