EUGENE–"Be a Marching Duck," one of the University of Oregon School of Music’s most popular children’s programs, returns for a seventh year at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 30, at Autzen Stadium, 2700 Centennial Blvd.

Tickets, available at Gate C on the east side of the stadium, are $2 per person, child or adult, or $5 for a family ticket.

Because Autzen Stadium will be a busy place that morning–the Washington Huskies play the Oregon Ducks in a sell-out game at 12:30 p.m.–parking will be scarce. Parents are urged to make arrangements to be dropped off with their children (and picked up by 10 a.m.) in front of Autzen.

Alternatively, parents can make the morning an extended adventure by parking on the UO campus and taking their youngsters on the beautiful walk (allow about 30 minutes) over the footbridge to Autzen. The fall colors, the river and the early tailgating festivities in the Autzen parking lot will make a festive prelude to the 9 a.m. marching band program.

Children will receive a kazoo when they enter the stadium, and the Oregon Marching Band will teach them the Oregon fight song, "Mighty Oregon." All youngsters then will assemble into "marching clinics" with members of the band and get some hands-on marching instruction right on the field.

At the conclusion, everyone will watch the Oregon Marching Band go through a final rehearsal of its halftime show for the football game.

The UO Children’s Concert Series, now in its 12th season, is subtitled "Lively Music for Young Listeners." The series is designed to introduce young people and their parents to different kinds of music and to help them develop good listening skills.

For more information about the Autzen Stadium program or the Children’s Concert Series, contact Kathleen Jacobi-Karna at (541) 346-3769 or the music school’s publicity office at 346-5678.

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