Youth and Young Adult combined

[idoobiedub]

I'm curious if anyone has a choir that is combined of youth and young adults ranging age from 13-35?  Our church has a youth and young adult choir that used to be seperate but then it was combined when we got a new musician.  I'm just curious of some of the problems that may occur or some of the situations you may go through in your specific choir. For instance, the young adults have a problem with youth that tend to play in rehearsal a little more than they need to be.  And then we have youth who think the young adults are trying to take over everything and are not giving the youth any say. What kind of issues do you all encounter and what are some of your solutions?

[Nu-Day]

In Our Choir, The youth doesn't like the song selections that the adult choir sing. Since our youth choir has a different musician, we sing a lot of different songs then the adult. When we combine, the musician for the adult choir is in charge of everything and most of the youth doesn't like the songs aldult musician play. Plus the adult choir isn't as organzined as the youth. We range from as young as 5 & up.

[chrisjr4]

The mass choir at my church used to range from 11+ (I don't really think they had a limit on how old, although the oldest was 32)...

Issues we had:

1. Younger members lacked attention span and played too much (sadly some of the adults had a bit of the same problem lol)
2. Parents who were in the choir with their kids were a bet edgy when their children were told what to do.
3. Kids took advantage of their parents being in the choir and tried to act up (which was causing number 2 lol... Cause the director wasn't havin' that!)
4. Young members couldn't understand certain voice manuvers (for lack of a better word lol) and had to ask a LOT of questions which slowed down rehearsal considerably.

Now the age range is 16+ ... All that playin and immaturity has been ccut out and we don't have to worry about the parent-child relationships being strained during rehearsals.
We never had a problem with the youngest members verses the older members as far as arguing over the type of songs we sing. The type of songs we sing are "I Want To Live So....." (James Hall), "Hero" (K. Franklin), "So Many Times" (Dorinda C. Cole), those type of songs. I guess we're Contemporarated-old-skool-gospel-group-choir-type lol.

[kyrstal4christ]

And.... they the adult choir is a little more advanced ... we make take a song up 3 keys... the youth cant.... "its hurts my throat" said Jon