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Wednesday, August 31, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Bend wildlife Learning to play music joyfully in Sisters
“When we’re kids, we
center closes By Jim Cornelius
talk first, then we learn to
read and spell,” she said.
Hendrie took up piano
when she was five years old.
“I learned the classical
way,” she said with a wry
smile. “The crying-and-tears
way.”
She also played flute
and sang. But for her, piano
offers the widest palette for
musical expression.
“Really, you can get any-
thing out of the piano,” she
said.
Hendrie, who has a mas-
ter’s degree in special edu-
cation, adopted the Simply
Music program about nine
years ago. Her students range
in age from 4-year-olds to
people in their 80s.
“I love to build commu-
nity,” she told The Nugget.
And that community
spreads far and wide.
“I’ve got students online
from different places in the
world,” she said. “I’ve got a
student in South Africa; sev-
eral in California.”
The Playful Piano studio
is in Bend, but Hendrie and
her husband are moving to
photo provided
Agnes hendrie teaches playful piano.
Sisters, where she plans to
open a studio in her home
in Buck Run in October. For
now, she’s teaching Sisters-
area students at Judy Bull’s
home east of town.
For more information on
Playful Piano, visit www.
playfulpianobend.com or call
541-408-2948.
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ns
If you remember your
piano lessons and recitals
as a nerve-wracking, stress-
ful time of childhood, you’ll
barely recognize Agnes
Hendrie’s method. It’s all
summed up in the name of
her teaching practice: Playful
Piano.
“I’m a Simply Music
teacher, which is a play-
ing-based program from
Australia,” Hendrie
explained.
Simply Music is a fully
developed curriculum and
protocol that is science-
based to make learning
piano a more natural — and
more joyful — experience.
The idea is to create “a life-
long friendship with music,”
Hendrie said.
Students enjoy playing
real pieces from their very
first lessons. The emphasis
is on playing, and learning
patterns — all before learn-
ing to read music. According
to Hendrie, it mimics
the way humans learn to
communicate.
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BEND (AP) — A wild-
life rehabilitation center in
Central Oregon has closed
after resident veterinarian and
center co-founder, Dr. Jeff
Cooney, gave up his wildlife
rehabilitation permit earlier
in August.
The Bulletin reports that
High Desert Wildlife Center
shut down and the Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife took most of the ani-
mals receiving care there.
Department spokeswoman
Michelle Dennehy says offi-
cials dealt with the animals
last week. She says some
were released into the wild,
some were transferred to
nearby wildlife centers and
some were euthanized.
She says she’ll likely
have more information once
a report on the center is
finished.
Former volunteer Amy
Vukovic says the center
was unclean, didn’t provide
enough training for volun-
teers and kept birds in too-
small spaces.
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