5 Comments

1. 
   Mike

   June 16, 2009 at 2:48 pm

   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.)
2. 
   Patty

   June 16, 2009 at 2:53 pm

   I’ve heard of some youth orchestras using 30 to 40 year olds. I’m mystified!
3. 
   Ben Clapton

   June 16, 2009 at 5:40 pm

   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.
4. 
   Patty

   June 16, 2009 at 10:31 pm

   Up to 25 is fine, as long as they are still students. After that, I say nope … they don’t qualify.
5. 
   Jolene

   June 17, 2009 at 11:52 pm

   wow, odd… my youth orchestra was high school and under, aside from the conductor.