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 Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 4:27 pm
the teachers pick their favorites for the solo instead of the people who can actually sing....that happens all the time in our school.....the same people always get picked....and some of them deserve it....but some of them....cant sing....but the teachers love them so they get picked.....and then the people that can actually do the part.....cant get anything mad
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:21 pm
My director has NO favorites. He treats everyone equally.
In fact, he HATES HATES HATES suckups or teacher's pets. He hates them with such a passion, that he will completely ignore them until they prove they can be intelligient and capable of personal opinion that dosent revolve around the teacher's. Only then, he will help them out. If they try to get good grades by sucking up, hooolllllllygeeze, they get about the opposite.
You have to prove yourself to him as a musician, and I respect that so much.
Especially moreso with the band students. He gets on people's asses until they prove they're a musician, but if they suck up about it, he'll tell them off and leave it at that.
So, in otherwords, I don;t know how that feels o_O seeing as he's the only choir director we've ever had.
One thing that got me spitting mad, though, was in grade 9 band. This teacher's pet got the band award, and she could hardly play her instrument.
Now, hojeeze. The band was tuning, and she took her sax and belted out the Bb to an earsplitting volume, as if she was all that and thinking she'd set an example for everyone who was tuning. Well, the director said
"WAY too sharp! Now pull out and kindly play at the same volume as everyone else, please." in a very sarcastic voice. I LOVED that moment XD
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:16 am
My choir teacher went to school where that happened so she vowed never to do that when she taught.
We have specific audition days, once each semester, for all the solos in our music and for other people to audition for choir. Everyone gets a fair shot at getting the solo, they just have to get up in front of the class and sing it.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:23 am
yea. that sometimes happens in my choir. but i dont think that our director purposely trys to pick their favorites. but sometimes they just end up hearing things wrong at auditions for solos and picks someone who is ok but not the best out of all who tried out.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:40 am
sweatdrop It's not this way in actual chorus, but in large group speech musical theatre... the director REALLY plays favorites... which makes me no friends. We are doing Little Shop of Horror's prologue, somewhere that's green, and finale. She wanted to make Somewhere That's Green a solo piece, but break it up and give everybody in the group (we have 6 people). Well, here's about what happened.
Director: Okay, , you take the first page, and then three measures on the second. , take the next three measures. Then we'll all sing the next two, then will take two measures. gets the next four measures, and then takes the next two, then takes the next 8 measures, then we'll all sing, then will take another 8 measures, then will take the next 5 measures, and then we'll all finish the last 5 measures out together.
One of the seniors was glaring at me the entire time (I'm a soph). And I'm nervous that I have most of the song. I mean, I've done solos before, but not so much in musical theatre, last year I was the only one with, but I only had 3 measures, because we had a freshman group.
I do think I'm a decent singer, and I can hit all of the notes and sing it how the director wants it to be sung. Its just that I don't feel comfortable taking it from the seniors, who have been in musical theatre longer than I have...
...whoops. that was way longer than I meant it... Didn't mean to hijack the thread...
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:21 pm
I hate it even more when I get a solo, fair and square, and at the last minute, it gets taken away over a completely irrelevant spat within the group. I'm a really outspoken person, and if someone cops an attitude with me, I'll cop one right back. I refuse to back down.
Well, last night, at our last rehearsal before our Christmas concert, some girl made a catty remark about me across the stage, which was probably meant for me to hear, if it was so loud, so I marched across the stage and told her off. Quite loudly. In front of everyone. I probably shouldn't have, because she left the stage in tears, but she started it. After that, my solo was made into just a unison line for everyone.
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:38 am
i dont think our teachers really do it on purpose all the time....but it always happens anyway
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