I will just say one quick thing today. I’ll blog more later … probably sometime next week. But here you go:
A youth orchestra should consist of youths.
Really. And that’s all I’ll write for now.
reed on!
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Agreed. As should youth theater.
(Which, for the most part, appears to be the case. But I know of a recent youth theater production that had people well over 18 doing some pit-singing. Not cool.)
I’ve heard of some youth orchestras using 30 to 40 year olds. I’m mystified!
I would say that they should also perhaps play instruments normally found in an orchestra?
The youth orchestra I’m in has a cut off limit of 25, which I think is fair enough as mainly what seems to happen is that wind players of the level of 18 year old string players are generally a few years older. Perhaps it’s due to starting later, or perhaps wind parts require more training/skill development than string parts.
I don’t know – I’m just a string player.
Up to 25 is fine, as long as they are still students. After that, I say nope … they don’t qualify.
wow, odd… my youth orchestra was high school and under, aside from the conductor.