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IMMIGRANT SONGS: Elise Witt incorporates music in teaching English

IMMIGRANT SONGS: Elise Witt incorporates music in teaching English

May 24, 2025 By Jessica Lily

We are all the kin of immigrants or refugees — if you go back far enough. In the past three to four decades the sociopolitical upheavals in other countries have created a need for sanctuary and asylum for millions of people, many forced to leave their homeland due to violence, terrorism, oppression, and extreme poverty. As the need for support services in the US has increased, Clarkston, Georgia has become a safe and welcome haven for many of these refugees. However, basic housing and social support only scratches the surface of need.

CODING IN MUSIC: ELISE WITT TEACHES HOW CODES CAN HELP MAKE MUSIC

CODING IN MUSIC: ELISE WITT TEACHES HOW CODES CAN HELP MAKE MUSIC

July 17, 2022 By Jessica Lily

“It’s important to know that it is not necessary for a musician to be able to read music to make  music,” says Ms. Elise, Artist-in-Residence. “Many musicians learn and create music by ear. Written music is just a code, a language for musicians to communicate with each other.” 

Elise’s GVP STUDENTS WRITE, CREATE, REMIX NEW MUSIC IN SONGWRITERS’ CLUB

Elise’s GVP STUDENTS WRITE, CREATE, REMIX NEW MUSIC IN SONGWRITERS’ CLUB

August 3, 2021 By Jessica Lily

How do we deal with the many feelings we experience while stuck at home and living through a pandemic? For some GVP students, the answer is through songwriting. A new student-led Songwriters’ Club has flourished at GVP as a unique space for students to explore composing their own songs and remixing others’. Students meet weekly via Zoom to workshop original lyrics and share their latest creations with peers. They swap techniques for using GarageBand, a digital music creation studio available on their iPads. And the finished products are impressive: as STEAM Coordinator Danielle Ereddia says, “It’s not only that students are writing lyrics, they’re writing melodies and using loops, voice filters, and instruments on GarageBand to construct multi-layered songs…with up to 14 different tracks on one song.”

on the Choral Commons

on the Choral Commons

June 3, 2021 By Jessica Lily

This interview was conducted on May 12, 2021 by Emilie Amrein and André de Quadros, founders of the Choral Commons.

Arts & Culture Seen: Music: A Common Language For Refugee Girls

Arts & Culture Seen: Music: A Common Language For Refugee Girls

October 29, 2019 By Jessica Lily

Pass It On! the journal of the Children’s Music Network features Elise with Good Vibrations

Pass It On! the journal of the Children’s Music Network features Elise with Good Vibrations

April 11, 2016 By Jessica Lily

In music, a tuning fork is a classic vibratory instrument providing true pitch, used as a guide to all other tonal relationships. In life, it is Elise Witt.

Born in Switzerland to survivors of Nazi Germany, raised in North Carolina, Elise makes her home in Atlanta, Georgia. Speaking fluent Italian, French, German, Spanish, and English and singing in more than a dozen languages, Elise’s passion for music and language has carried her around the nation and across the seas. “My work and my life are all about sound,” says the multi-instrumentalist and longtime member of the Children’s Music Network.

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Your workshop was totally inspiring!
Joanna
New noise theatre, new orleans lA
Elise teaches great ways to access your deepest, most authentic, most beautiful voice.
Leila
Atlanta, Ga
Elise is a master at guiding voices and opening hearts.
Chorus Manager, WomanSong
Asheville, NC
You don't know how much I needed exactly what you gathered and offered - musically and spiritually.
Lynn
Decatur, GA
You help create positive, transformative experiences for people of all ages.
Outreach Director, LEAF Lake Eden Arts Festival
Black Mountain, nc

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