Newsletter from the Section for the Arts of Eurythmy, Speech and Music Easter 2009 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Topical forum Conference of the Representative from the Eurythmy Trainings (Marcel Sorge) . 30 Jürgen Schriefer 80th birthday Centenary of Steiner’s lecture “The Being of the Arts” (Margrethe Solstad, Michael Kurtz) . 3 the eurythmy performance of Ensemble ELISA A Life dedicated to the Renewal of Musical Culture out of (Rosmarie Felber) . 31 the Human Being: Heiner Ruland on his 75th birthday Kalevala 2009. Sanan mahti / The power of the word (Verena Zacher Züsli) . 3 (Ulrike Wendt) . 32 Section for the Arts of Eurythmy, Speech and Music: EEN – Euritmie Ensemble Nederland co-ordinator Trond Solstad . 4 33rd anniversary Summer Conference in Wanne Eickel (Helga Daniel) . 34 International BA from the Eurythmy School, Articles The Hague (Helga Daniel) . 34 Switzerland: Strengthened collaboration of the Primal Artistic Process: Steiner’s Mystery Drama anthroposophical trainings, integration and (Heinz Zimmermann) . 5 differentiation of methods (Elisabeth Wiederkehr) . 35 The eurythmical Soul-Gesture “Reverence” and Therapeutic Speech Practice: the future is forming the Pentagram (Jan Ranck) . 7 (Martina Kallenberg) . 35 The Water of Life and of Death, Eurythmy-work Puppetry working days 23–25 January 2009: content, in November 2008 (Brigitte Schreckenbach) . 7 mood and significance in the production process Steiner’s forms for Music Eurythmy (Brigitte Sattler) . 10 (Gudrun Ehm) . 36 The Art of Movement, Eurythmy, and its spiritual (Dietmar Ziegler) . 12 Coming from the heart, it speaks to the heart Obituaries (Emilie van der Held) . 14 “Shining light lay over the land”: Further training Betty Parker (Margaret and Arthur Osmond) . 37 in therapeutic speech practice in Helsinki Gerda Lehn (Birrethe Arden-Hansen) . 38 (Gabriela Swierczynska) . 16 Beatrice Albrecht (Ruth Dubach, R. Elisabeth Widmer, Joseph Matthias Hauer (1883–1959).Thoughts on the Blanche-Marie Schweizer) . 40 50th anniversary of his death (Johannes Greiner) . 18 Aurel Stroé (Angelika Kohli-Stroé) . 43 Stella Hagel (Volker Frankfurt) . 44 Reports Biography as Colour, Sound and Gesture: Summer Announcements of the Section . 45 Academy, led by Jan Ranck and Arie Ben-David (Sabine Brüggemann) . 20 World Premiere: A new staging of the “Foundation Announcements Stone Verse” (Michael Mehta) . 21 Polarity and Musicality in Russian Speech and Eurythmy . 46 Eurythmy (Marina Sevastyanik) . 22 Speech . 51 I am a pilgrim: project of the human being Music . 52 (Ursula Steinke) . 22 Puppetry . 52 Review of Master-classes with Gia van den Akker (Martje Brandsma) . 23 Premiere of Steiner’s Mystery Dramas in Japan: Book Reviews Visit of Gioia & Johannes Falk (Hiroko Kagawa) . 24 The Grail Epiphany: The Grail Question Today. Elisabeth Göbel: Auf der Suche nach Mitteleuropa Conference (Lesley Becket) . 24 [The Search for Middle Europe]. A biography “Because I love…”: 25 Years of Eurythmy between West and East in the C20th West Midlands (Malgorzata Spaan) . 25 (Astrid Prokofieff) . 53 Eurythmy and the Lyre (Verena Zacher-Züsli) . 25 Erika Beltle: Was die Sprache versteckt hält – The Human Essence. Seminar with Werner Barfod vom Zauber ihrer Kunstelemente [What is hidden (Elisabeth Viersen) . 26 in speech: the enchanted elements of art] Eurythmy in South America (Eduardo Torres) . 26 (Sylvia Bardt) . 54 im-pulse. Eurythmy: International Eurythmy Studies . 27 Werner Barfod: Planetengebärden und Menschenwesen MA studies in Eurythmy in Järna (Göran Krantz) . 28 [Planetary gestures and the essence of man] (Elisabeth Göbel) . 55 2 FOREWORD Dear Colleagues, The Christmas Conference 2008 at the Goetheanum car - al discussion, stimuli for individual work and insights into ried the title “Art and Initiation”. Firstly, because the new the most varying methods and research achieved by indi - production of Rudolf Steiner’s first mystery drama“The Por - viduals. Thereby possibilities open up for human encoun - tal of Initiation” was performed; secondly, because it was the ters. We need our Newsletter ! 60 th anniversary of Marie Steiner’s death whose whole life But in order to appear, our Newsletter requires the finan - was dedicated to this theme. She saw the work in speech as cial backing—an ever-recurring theme. Last year was a very a preliminary to meditation. “The laws of speech-formation bad year with regard to subscriptions. A payment form is coincide with those of the path of schooling.” always included in the Easter edition. € 20 is hardly a large These are her words. I can only marvel when I read again sum to support the Newsletter .Yet when many people fail to the stimuli and directions she gives on speech-formation as pay, it becomes a large burden for the Section.We very much the method to re-enliven the cultivation of language. hope that in this respect 2009 in will turn out better.We need Through her writings we can but divine to what spiritual support. Donations are most gratefully received! realms she penetrated through her tireless efforts and self - However, we are rich in written contribution; grateful less will to change. thanks should here be expressed to all the contributors. Yet, as it always is, such things can no longer be imitated. In conclusion, the summer is calling with many activities Everything has to be taken hold of through our own activity. in speech and in eurythmy. First of all the conference for Through the will and openness to change as well as the con - eurythmists Bewegte Sprache–Sprechende Bewegung fidence in Rudolf Steiner’s stimuli we can take up this mod - [“Active speech – meaningful movement”] from 16–18 July. ern, future-orientated impulse of life-giving power for our Then, immediately following, the Eurythmy-Symphony work, whether it be work with children, colleagues, patients Summer Week from 19–24 July. You are most welcome to or audiences. The results of the work can be felt because it is attend. spiritually carried. The Newsletter is now published in its 50 th edition. Early With warmest greetings, on, the eurythmist Cara Groot carried the work for years.Ten years ago the form was revised through the initiative of Werner Barfod. Since then the Newsletter has appears bi- annually. Our Newsletter offers the possibility of profession - Dornach, February 2009 http://srmk.goetheanum.org TOPICAL FORUM 3 TOPICAL FORUM Jürgen Schriefer celebrates still to be found amongst shepherds and farmers, as in the his 80th Birthday alp-horn, yodelling , bag-pipes, in which radial “minor” of the aulos-scales, however, a “major” can be reflected . On 6th March Jürgen Schriefer celebrates in Witten his 80th In studying Rudolf Steiner’s research on the post- birthday with a host of festive occasions. Our Performing Atlantean cultural epochs and their correlation to the inter - Arts Section worldwide is obliged to express great gratitude vals , and at the same time orientating to the results of com - – not only for his lectures on the history and present state of parative musicology, Heiner Ruland studied the essence of music which enthuse and open up new perspectives, but the intervals and thereby discovered the prehistoric precur - especially for the tireless way he built up the impulse for sor of the circle of fifths: the circle of sevenths (Slendro) and singing of the “School for Uncovering the Voice”. In recent the circle of sixths. These tonal systems can be experienced years, he has worked freshly deepening the piano works of as a living mirror of the stages of human consciousness . He Mozart, Beethoven and Debussy. A detailed appreciation of learnt that tempering the Dionysian natural intervals does his work by several hands will appear in the next issue. not have to be an adulteration, but a living and sensitive Margrethe Solstad and Michael Kurtz marriage. Indeed, it can be an intensification of the polarity of radial and cyclical principle—in fact a humanising. This was the emphasis for his own composing . 1963–74 Heiner Ruland taught at the Steiner-Waldorf A Life dedicated to the Renewal of School, Benefeld. In 1975 he was a tutor at the Alanus Musical Culture out of the Human Being Hochschule; from 1976 he was a music therapist in Öschel - bronn. He also taught in the free Music Seminary in Ham - Heiner Ruland on his 75th birthday burg and led numerous courses, amongst others for 14 years Verena Zacher Züsli, CH-Zürich in Salzburg. In his book, Die Neugeburt der Musik aus dem Wesen des Menschen [“The rebirth of music out of the Heiner Ruland was born on 6th April 1934 in Aachen, quite human being”] he makes fruitful the 7 notes of the scale for near the cathedral, the Pfalzkapelle of Charles the Great. the 7 life-processes and the 12 tonal regions for the 12 sens - Although enthusiastic for music and passed his grades in the es, which opens unimagined possibilities for therapy . humanities and ancient languages , he began first to study Full of enthusiasm, Heiner Ruland gets to work in his com - chemistry. Yet already after the first term he changed positions with these expanded scales and their possibilities “remorsefully” to study music in Freiburg in Breisgau. He of modulation . Short pieces were written for choir of three or was especially attracted to early music and harpsichord four voices. In 1966 a first clavichord with twelve additional lessons with Fritz Neumeier. As a student in Paris in 1959 he notes was constructed, and in 1985 a first organ. Linking to got to know the “Schlesinger scales”—the early Greek aulos- Bach’s “Well-tempered Clavier”, Ruland has composed “12 scales to which Rudolf Steiner pointed the musicians. He Umspiele und Reihen” for organ, also the “Hohenfrieder was stimulated to penetrate these notes through practice in Orgelheft” with studies on the seven intervals and music for order to be able to lead music further. At 25 years old, he felt the services of The Christian Community.