[TPIN] Adults playing in student productions

[mike magers]

The downside to insisting it be kids only is the likelihood of the teachers cutting the orch altogether.  Some schools like to do big productions, don't have the students who can carry off playing a major musical and wind up doing it to CD or just piano accompaniment.  I have seen that happen.

There have been some good comments made on all sides.  I tend to settle down to the view of one of the excellent posts yesterday.  If you are going to use adults to perform alongside the students, make it a learning experience for the students.  If that is the goal and it is done, I don't see any problem with mixing adults in with the students in order to pull off a program.

Mike

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From: "JFDonaldsn at aol.com" <JFDonaldsn at aol.com>
To: tpin at tpin.okcu.edu
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 10:00:03 AM
Subject: Re: [TPIN] Adults playing in student productions


I think that student productions should be done with all students. I think 
the drama department and music department should work together to find or modify 
the production so that it can be done by all students. This means that the 
school may not be able to put on West Side Story and/or the band director is 
going to have to re-write some parts to simplify or lower them so that the 
students can play them. There is nothing wrong with that and the only people who 
will notice will be anybody in the audience who has previously played the part 
and remembered it (that would be no one in most instances). The audience will 
notice a failed attempt at playing very difficult music.

There are exceptions to this where the school or program is very small and 
the choice is to augment the orchestra with adults (or students from other 
schools) or not have a production at all and deprive the students of the entire 
experience. 







 
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