NCO 2018

I'm glad things mostly went smoothly for both of them. Phew! I would have thought that playing to the end would be reserved for Main Orchestra, Trumpet. It's good that he was feeling confident enough to stand up for himself.

It's our NCO day in 15 days! We're away for a long weekend just beforehand, but hopefully the hard work will have been done by then.

Thank you folk I'm sure they will and ds seems pretty chilled about it ( well for now anyway until the results come out ) glad it went well for your dd and I think they both deserve a pat on the back for showing strength of character and dealing with the unexpected. I think auditions etc are good for experiencing and coping with the unexpected ( as well as hopefully- fingers crossed being successful)

Trumpet and folkmamma - glad for you and your dc that it is all over for another year. Still get a few days ( and a few more strops, no doubt!) until DD2's one.

Phew. Done. DD had a memory lapse in the first phrase of one piece (never happened before!!!!) but started again and really nailed it! I hope that shows strength of character... her other pieces went really well and even got a “beautiful” from the adjudicator, so we’ll take that! She seems happy with sight reading too, so we will see. Just desperate to get back in to Regionals, she’s had such an awesome time this year!

Trumpet- that’s a real shame about the quick study, I’m sure they will take the Steward error into account?? X

Thank you . All done now and he feels that it mostly went well . Although I think there was some confusion over the sight reading, . The people in the audition asked him to play to the end , but the steward had only asked him to prepare the first 3 lines . Ds stuck to his guns and played what he had been asked to work on , apparently the last bit was very high ( post grade 8) so he would have wanted to have a go at it first. Then in his unprepared piece they threw in a bit of transposition right in the middle of the piece- we weren't expecting that at all though ds said he could mostly do that . Hopefully none of this will disadvantage him though I would feel awful if he didn't get in because I hadn't understood the bit about sight transposition I've pinged off an email to NCO to explain the confusion over how much sight reading he was supposed to do - with time to prepare he would have been able to play it all annoyingly, hopefully if the steward got it wrong they will take it into account

Good luck to Trumpetboy!

Good luck!

Fingers crossed for no injuries we have turned up to the audition early ( I was worried about being late) but we are now sitting in the park as there's no where to wait !! Same place as last year but different set up ?!? Luckily it doesn't seem to have put ds off

Sounds nice, se22. Rara used to play the Mozart piece and liked it, but never got the rhythm right!

Not much sport going on Doubleup - only PE lessons (badminton and hockey) so far, because netball season hasn't started. Goo has gone on a school trip to a farm today though. If one child is going to manage to injure themselves on a farm, it will be her. But hopefully not!!

Waffle the g2 a1 Mozart - I am not going to try to spell it and a more fun piece from a musical

No sports and bubble wrap Waffle?

Wow, this thread has really moved on since I last ventured inside! Good luck to MiniTrumpet and anyone else auditioning tomorrow.

SE22 no, not usually. She can if she wants to though! What pieces is she playing?

We have just over two weeks to go, which is absolutely fine. We are going away for three days, and getting back two days (only one full day) before, which is not so fine. Oh well! All the learning SHOULD be done by then, but we'll see.

Goo hasn't been working hard enough, and been told to try harder with her cadenza. She's finally decided to pull her finger out. All good. I fully expect her to be bandaged up nearer the time though!

Dd has asked me to enquire whether she needs to introduce her pieces? TIA

Good luck with tomorrow's auditions. DD2 still has 12 days, 2 accompanist sessions and 1, perhaps 2 lessons before her audition.

Yes, good luck everyone! All good here, great final lesson - Noo fast asleep in bed since 7.15. I’m distracting myself with ironing and Tchaik 4...

Thank you mini he seems fine ( the cough seems to come and go) and is looking forward to it

We aren't having an accompanist. I do wish she did, just to give her the stability in audition setting, but she played them in concert with s totally unknown accompanist who made a pigs ear of one of the pieces and we've practised one of her pieces so firmly to a metronome that I can feel her feeling the pulse. So I am hoping she'll be just fine. Her teacher is away, it's a 90 min drive so too far to ask people to go for five minutes playing really!

Good luck to tomorrow's auditionees! I hope trumpetboy has a good day regardless of illness.

Yes string we have talked lots about NOT rushing for the faster piece otherwise while impressive he runs the risk of it sounding a bit scruffy. I'm totally with your dd about playing with an unknown accompaniest mostly when ds has done that it has gone fine but there has been the odd occasion when he has been caught unaware and has had to make some hasty adjustments all good practice

It’s is great - having her ‘other mum’ in the room really helps Noo. Although I think it will really throw her on the inevitable day that she has to work with another accompanist!!!!

Don’t fret Kutik, they are only interested in quality of playing, accompanist or no. I don’t even think the difficulty of the piece is much of a factor. Fingers crossed for everyone!

Trumpet, actually it's a good life skill, isn't it? They learn to do the best nevertheless the condition. Lots of honey lemon and early sleep tonight!

I like to believe what Trumpet said. Then I can stop giving myself such hard time not to give him the best support....

DS also developed cough, sour throat and runny nose at the beginning of last week - it happened to be the week with a science test for state secondary entry on Mon, NCO audition on Wed and a music test for another state secondary entry!! He still has them all, and aural tests for secondary school entry are coming up this week and next week - both are very important as they are his 1st and 2nd choice... He was 100% well for not so important audition/test. Typical!!

Thank you folkmamma he says he'll be fine he did his grade 7 with a truely awful cough ( and collapsed in coughing fits between each piece !!) so he's got experience of just getting on with it . I wish we had access to a regular accompanist that would be great