Reservoi rs
reopen it, and we don’t have
that," Chapman said.
“It was never highly
developed, not in the order of
Orchard Point or Richardson.
They have marinas, they have
concessions, they have irrigated
turf, just about everything.
Zumwalt was always more of a
natural park." he said.
The U.S. Corps of Engineers
also operates two parks at Fern
Ridge: Perkins Peninsula and
Kirk, hamster said.
According to Lamster, Or
chard Point is the most heavily
used park at Fern Ridge with
175,000 visitors in 1906.
followed by Perkins Peninsula
with 154.000. Richardson with
127.000. Kirk with 37.500 and
Zumwalt with 12,000
At Dexter Lake, l.ane County
operates two parks. Dexter and
Lowell. Dexter Park has a boat
ramp and dock, picnic sites and
a swimming area. Lowell Park
has a small marina, a boat ramp,
a picnic area and a swim beach.
The University crew team has
their headquarters at Ixiwell
Park as well, with a dock and
storage building located on park
property.
According to Lamster, Dexter
Park attracted 104.000 visitors
in 1986 and Lowell Park
102 000
The reservoirs aren't without
controversy, however.
"There's a group of people
that varies in size that wants
Fern Ridge Reservoir left full
all-year-round," hamster said
“Quite honestly, if the dam
was left full there would be
floods every' year And it may
not affect someone in Fugene
because they're upstream. Hut it
sure is going to flood out
Monroe and Corvallis and some
of those places." he said.
Fern Ridge is drained during
the winter so it has the capacity
to store spring runoff from the
Piano instruction available to community
By Sean Nelson
Of the Emerald
Beginning Sept. 28, the
University's School of Music
will offer a special pre-piano
instruction course for
children emphasizing music
through movement and im
provisation, as well as the
usual piano courses for com
munity residents of all ages.
Children’s courses will in
clude “songs and stories, and
are designed to provide
preliminary instruction to
children ages 3 to 5,” accor
ding to Barbara Baird, direc
tor of the Community Piano
Program at the School of
Music.
“What we're teaching them
is to make music...as well as
learning a repertoire," Baird
said.
More advanced-level
courses are offered to children
ages 5 to 6 utilizing the
Dalcroze Eurythmics method,
she said.
The Dalcroze Eurhythmies
method is "a method of music
teaching that involves the
child in whole body response
to sounds and rhythms," to
prepare them for a continued
musical experience. Baird
said.
Children and teen-agers are
offered courses which teach
the skills of piano itself, while
adults receive instruction in
the form of classes or private
lessons, she said.
“It is a program for children
ages 3 to 93," she added.
Other courses offered
through the School of Music
include a course for teen
agers which concentrates on
individual instruction, but
students meet with a group in
the electronic piano lab once a
week to explore a musical
topic more thoroughly. Baird
said.
“I think our program is uni
que in its emphasis on the
creativity of the child, har
monization and improvisa
tion skills." Baird said "We
have group instruction as well
as private instruction so the
kids are involved in the social
aspect of piano instruc
tion... which makes it more
fun for them," she added.
The skills taught in the
preliminary program would
apply to all of the different
programs offered for all ages.
Baird said. Instruction is
designed to provide a lifelong
learning experience.
The courses cover perfor
mance of standard piano
literature, she said. "It runs
the gamit from Bach to the
contemporary composers in
cluding popular literature and
folk songs.” she added
The courses also cover har
monization and improvisa
tion, and aim to include their
members in ensemble perfor
malices at group meetings,
which meet every other week
and perform for eac h other,
she said.
"Teens paired in lessons
perform for each other, in
dividually instructed teens
perform only once a month or
once a term," Baird said.
The end of the term is open
to children, teens, adults and
the entire community, she
added.
Beginning children’s
classes are taught in groups of
three or four, and emphasize
the reading and creative skills
needed to build a strong
musical foundation
"Basically learning to ruad
music and learning to im
provise, harmonize, transpose
and perform music is all in
tegral in the student's instruc
tion." she said
This would help the in
dividual child "as a well
rounded musician" who com
poses and responds to music
he or she hears. Baird said.
Children who move for
ward from this stage can con
tinue to work in gniups or in
pairs with additional private
instruction, she added.
"We have both adjunct in
structors and GTFs who pro
vide that instruction." Baird
said "For the most part they
are all highly experienced and
well qualified," she said.
Long Tom River. Coast Range
streams and the Amazon
Slough. Chapman said.
"They hit the spring rains,
fill the reservoir up and then
use it ail year round for charg
ing the Long Tom River
downstream for irrigation pur
poses." Chapman said.
"it's a very flat lake. So as
they draw down, the shoreline
recedes quickly.” he added.
The controversy over use of
Fern Ridge has raged for years,
although the 1960s wen? a turn
ing point. In 1905, the U S
Corps of Engineers increased
the height of the reservoir's dam
and combined with the advent
of inexpensive aluminum and
fiberglass boats, recreational ac
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