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There's this one girl in my section who thinks she's awesome and sings over everyone else, so at concerts and in recordings she's the only soprano you can hear. My teacher has told her to back off SO many times. She's never gonna make it to chamber choir.

I don't have to worry about slackers 'cause my choir is audition only and everyone has worked hard to get there and would rather not get kicked out. My friend in treble choir always complains about the people who can't sing and don't "participate", and I just feel lucky I don't have to deal with them. Yup.

I get really tired of people who do well... all that stuff you other guys have named. But the one thing that really gets me mad is when someone sings over everyone else, doesn't listen to the director, thinks they're better than everyone else when they are not. I mean its a choir. It's a group not a bunch of individuals. Those people are such losers. xp

What annoys me, is when they don't let Freshmen be in good choirs. We weren't even allowed to audition for the Freshmen choir which is supposed to be auditioned, so there are sucky people in there. Some that can't even sing. *Sigh*

1) The fact that all the sopranos want to be first leaving 2 or 3 girls to be seconds. It's really hard to sing ones part with the blare of uber high notes all around you. We already have problems in our choir with balance and this fact is probably the leading cause.

2) People who are disrepectful to the teacher and disrupt our rehersal. I know that we as humans are sociable creatures and that talking does make things better. Normally I don't mind small chat during laid back rehersals; what can I do to stop it? But when we are getting ready for a compitition people just don't shut up. They also give the teacher lip and grief as if it's her fault that we can't get anything done. A little co-opperation at times like that goes a long way.

3) The fact that my choir teacher is always making shallow threats. I think one reason people do screw around in our choirs is because I teacher never follows through with her threas to kick someone out or send them to the office. The students know she won't do anything and so knowing that there will be no consiquince for their actions that screw around. I really wish that she'd start sending them to the office.

4) When certain persons get diva like attitudes even if they aren't very good. I can understand the more talented girls in our choir program who are divas because they CAN do it better than you. Still they tend not to flaunt it. It's the younger girls who think that jsut because they hit a shreaking high note once are all that. I very much dislike it when they start telling me what I am doing wrong. It's not that I can't take critisim, I enjoy it very much, it's just the way they let me know in that smug attitude. And the things they point out are well, they don't make much sense; ex. "You're opening your mouth to wide". The better to sing my dear, so I don't have that pinched girlie sounds like you.

5) This is just one of my pet peeves; singing the song with someone while they are performing. In my book that is the rudest thing you could do to someone because you are saying that you can do a better job than them. I know at times it can be hard not to sing if you really do like the song and don't mean any kind of disrespect, but just don't. You can sing it all you want later.

Well, Divas were my main annoyance in my high school choir. We were never sure if we were the Chamber Singers, or "May and Company". The other big annoyance was people who just didn't care. They would skip all of the time, they would talk all through rehearsal, they wouldn't learn their parts, it drove me nuts.

Now, my main annoyance is with the complete and utter lack of drive in my choir,and with my director for not pushing us harder. It is absolutely unacceptable in my view to not have the music that we were working on LAST SEPTEMBER memorized by now. We also have no blend, we're more a bunch of people singing together than a choir. The music program at my school is just starting to come back from the dead, our choir is only three years old, so I suppose we're really not doing too bad, all things considered, it's just really hard from going from the top, audition-only choir to... this. Don't get me wrong, it's still fun, just frusterating sometimes.

*Sigh* I love to sing, but our choir is awful. I don't mean we aren't good, we get plenty of compliments on our performances, but what bugs me is our director just doesn't care if we goof off. Kids are text messaging (cells aren't allowed at our school), beating each other up, talking and laughing in the middle of songs, etc., etc., etc. I wish our group was audition only. Most of the people there are just in it for the easy grade, so there's only about three people in each part who actually sing at our rehearsals.
Grr.
stressed

I am a diva.