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My Journey Yours sung by Cantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley

My Journey Yours sung by Cantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley

Jul 6, 2019 | , , | 0 Comments

“My Journey Yours” is one of the most moving pieces on our upcoming program “Rituals and Transformations,” to be performed at the ACDA National Conference in Kansas City. I found your piece last year and programmed it for the small advanced ensemble I conduct at Cantabile Youth Singers, called “Aria.” My colleague Elena Sharkova was so moved by the performance that she decided to program it for our larger group of advanced singers for their performance at ACDA. Our audiences have heard this program now two or three times and have been incredibly touched by it.

Musicguy247’s Interview with Elise WittA celebration of people involved in music

Musicguy247’s Interview with Elise Witt
A celebration of people involved in music

Oct 2, 2017 | , , , | 0 Comments

Elise Witt – An interview with the singer, composer, educator, recording artist and community activist. “I wanted to contribute to change and connect to people through my music.” Elise Witt is a person who is driven to make the world a better place through music and the performing arts. After being born in Switzerland and spending her early childhood in upstate New York, Elise was raised in the southern U.S. state of North Carolina and since 1977 has made Georgia her home. Her mother used to sing in a choir in Switzerland and Elise carries on that singing tradition. Her main interests through her school years were languages of the world. She would study this in college and is fluent in French, German, Italian, Spanish and English.

Elise Witt – Using Song in All the Best Ways by Barbara McAfee

Elise Witt – Using Song in All the Best Ways by Barbara McAfee

Sep 12, 2017 | , , , | 0 Comments

I met Elise Witt years ago when she came to Minneapolis to lead a singing workshop. In that afternoon together, I learned songs from her that I am still singing today. It was also the beginning of long, deep and inspiring friendship, fostered by my frequent visits to Atlanta. What a blessing that she lives in the same town as my brother and his family! We have sung a number of concerts together and always cherish the way our work – like our voices – intertwine.

CoNNeCTioNS The Newsletter Of Music For People features Earbone and Improvisation

CoNNeCTioNS The Newsletter Of Music For People features Earbone and Improvisation

Nov 12, 2016 | , , , | 0 Comments

The idea that sound goes on forever, and that any sound we make is in the universe forever, is something to deeply consider in these controversial times.

I was born in Switzerland and came to the US at age 4. I was sent to a nursery school where all the children were communicating with each other in strange sounds that I had never heard.

Our Global Roots – Alternate Roots Artists Respond to Immigration in the Deep South

Our Global Roots – Alternate Roots Artists Respond to Immigration in the Deep South

Jun 23, 2016 | , , , , | 0 Comments

Elise and the Global Village Project, along with Ecuadoran/New Orleans performance artist José Torres-Tama,are featured in this article for Public, a Journal of Imagining America, exploring higher education and public engagement.

For the past 40 years, Alternate ROOTS has been a champion of, and resource for, artists, cultural workers, and progressive movement builders in the southern United States. In this article, Nicole Gurgel interviews two longtime ROOTS members—Elise Witt and José Torres-Tama—and explores these artists’ responses to the global challenges the Deep South is facing.

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

Apr 11, 2016 | , , , | 0 Comments

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.

The Children’s Music Network revisits Thank You

The Children’s Music Network revisits Thank You

Dec 20, 2015 | , , | 0 Comments

From the Archives at The Children’s Music Network: Thank You by Elise Witt. “Thank You” was written during a residency at Garden Hills Elementary School in Atlanta GA. My students spoke 40 different languages among them, and we all shared the way our culture says “thank you.”

International Songstress Elise Witt Launches “We’re All Born Singing”

International Songstress Elise Witt Launches “We’re All Born Singing”

Oct 23, 2015 | , , | 1 Comment

Lake Claire neighbors know Elise for her Impromptu Glorious Chorus™ community singing classes and workshops, which she has taught in our neighborhood since she moved to Atlanta in 1977 as a founding member of the Theatrical Outfit. Currently, Elise is teaching at the Candler Park Yoga Studio, and the next 6-week session runs Monday evenings 7:30 – 8:45 p.m., Oct. 12 – Nov. 23.

WABE – Atlanta Composer And Educator: ‘We’re All Born Singing’

WABE – Atlanta Composer And Educator: ‘We’re All Born Singing’

Oct 2, 2015 | , , , | 1 Comment

“We’re All Born Singing:” that’s the name of a new CD and book from Atlanta-area composer and singer Elise Witt. It’s also her paradigm as a music educator. Witt will officially launch her album with a concert at Decatur’s Oakhurst Baptist Church at 7 p.m. Thursday, but she gave Amy Kiley a preview. Witt began by explaining how she herself was born singing.

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