By Saeko Cohn, Nyack, NY

A year ago, Kerry Lee gave me an article that Christof-Andreas Lindenberg wrote in 1986, titled “The Advent Garden and the Lyre.” After having played at two Advent Gardens this year, I revisited this article and am grateful to be part of this history and the therapeutic impulse that lies behind the simultaneous creation of Advent Garden and the modern lyre in 1926.

By Sheila Johns, Cuenca, Ecuador

On Sunday, December 1st, the Uriel Center for Human Renewal through the Arts and Education in Cuenca, Ecuador sponsored our fifth annual Advent Garden. The Uriel Center is serving as a center for anthroposophic activity here in Cuenca and has most recently become home for a budding local Waldorf early childhood program.

By Anna Cooper, Brittany, France

Hi LANA members! I would like to let you know that there is an inspirational music publishing company, run by Andrew Dyer, where music is printed at Camphill Botton Village in the North Yorks Moors, UK.

By Flávia Betti Brincaded, Cântaro - Center for Music Development, Belo Horizante, Brazil

This year the lyre and singing group, Cântaro, together with the young lyrists of Ninho (Nest) school, played at the Rudolf Steiner School bazaar in Belo Horizonte.

In my new house in Dalian, North China, I have started many lyre and sound healing music sessions for children and adults.

As book reviews come in, we will update this list for easy access to all reviews. Just click on a title to go to the review. We would love to hear from you about a favorite or overlooked selection from one of our listings on our Music for Sale page. Send your reviews to wendypolich@hotmail.com.

We are happy to announce our Resonare Reunion in March 2020!

This will be a wonderful opportunity to re-connect with the work of Resonare, and to join with friends to sing, move, and make music together. This long weekend will take place at Camphill Copake, in Columbia County, NY from March 12-15, 2020.

From the front page of the book of lyre music, published in 2018, the lotus flower is glowing. The symbol of compassion and heart forces was the inspiration for Moments of Stillness, as the collection of five pieces for one or two lyres is called. The pieces enchant particularly through their purity and beauty.

Dew Drops, the second book, published in 2019, connects in its character with the lotus flower, the symbol for inner growth and life. "Dew drops" glisten and reflect the surrounding in a concentrated form. Point and circumference are beautifully united.

Thirty-one members and friends of LANA met July 1st in Kimberton, PA for the 2019 Annual General Meeting of the Lyre Association of North America. They came from California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, as well as South Korea and Ecuador.

By Diane Barnes, Hillsdale, New York: The Music for Musical Renewal Conference this past summer was very special. Veronika Roemer brought us many valuable musical games and activities for all ages, and especially for working with children.

By Melanie Eberhard, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania: The 2019 Lyre Conference for Musical Renewal brought to my awareness new opportunities to expand and deepen my listening and observing skills, as well as creating opportunities for children and colleagues to do the same in a Camphill School setting.

By Margo Ketchum, Kimberton, Pennsylvania

For the past few years, LANA has been getting inquiries from parents wanting to help their young sons find a lyre! They say they’re reading books on Greek mythology and Apollo…. Could we direct them to where to find a lyre and a lyre teacher?

By Holly Richardson, Carbondale, Colorado

My dear friend, Hartmut Schiffer, continues to encourage the work of the lyre in the little mountain town of Carbondale, CO on the western side of the Continental Divide. Stay tuned for details of a future event that would help to plant more lyre seeds here in our community!

By Julia Elliott, Boxford, Massachusetts

In late July, a group of six Resonare faculty members and students brought an evening of lyre music and song to the House of Peace in Ipswich, MA.

We are excited to share a new initiative with our members! The Lyre Connection offers an opportunity for experienced lyrists to support and nurture a growing community of beginners. As we move the lyre forward in the 21st century, we are enthusiastic about sharing our instrument with a new generation of players.

By Saeko Cohn, Nyack, New York

Resonare’s convivial learning atmosphere allowed me to turn-off temporarily my judging-self and immerse myself while enjoying the phenomenon that we call music in a meaningful way.

By Kayoko Matsubara, Hong Kong

Since the ancient lyre also plays an important part in Greek mythology, the chairman of Japan Panflute Association (JPA), Mr. Atsushi Nakamura, invited me to play together with him in Greece. We played two musical tunes, old and new, which are well explained in the this YouTube video.

by Veronika Roemer, Quakertown, PA: This past July I had the great fortune to attend the second lyre academy in Germany, with Christian Giersch and Martin Tobiassen as the organizers and teachers.

and by Saeko Cohn, Nyack, New York: This one-week lyre “boot camp” in Germany provided everything that I needed after my Resonare course: to improve my lyre playing skill and play more music in ensembles.

Here in Brazil our work with the Kântele musical instruments with parents and teachers has grown in the last year.

By Kerry Lee, Spring City, PA

With the help of friends and the angels, I was able to attend the conference celebrating Julius Knierim’s 100th birthday and the Independent Music School.

By Kerry Lee, Spring City, PA, USA

Finland: I had the great privilege to take part in the meeting of two great teachers in Finland, Christiaan Boele and Thomas Adam.