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NCO 2018

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stringchild · 23/08/2017 19:07

The new annual thread for those interested and/or auditioning! Ask questions, update your news - lots of nco parents on board and those hoping to be :)

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TrumpetVoluntary · 13/12/2017 13:26

Wow - the first invite to residentials! Well done to marmaduke’s DD!
Waffle - that must be really difficult if the child has been already to a residential and is desperate to go again. Hopefully she will get a place from being on the reserve list.

Musicdoc · 13/12/2017 13:25

Well done to minimarmaduke.
Waffle I feel your pain for Goo. Hopefully she will get through as a reserve. They are all brilliant to get through this far though.

CoffeeTeaChocholate · 13/12/2017 13:23

Oh Waffle, I am so sorry to hear that you think DD will be disappointed. It sounds like she has done amazingly well, but it is so hard to be missing out on something you want so much x

folkmamma · 13/12/2017 13:23

Awww, bless her. it must be so hard when they have formerly been full members. At least we've only ever known Regionals... Let's hope she doesn't give up and finds some joy in Regionals this year!!! xx

Wafflenose · 13/12/2017 13:20

I am grateful she can go to anything at all, and I realise it's very good. NCO is her whole life though (perhaps unhealthily so) and she is going to be devastated. I won't be surprised if she tries to give up the flute.

folkmamma · 13/12/2017 13:19

How do you think she will take it waffle??

marmadukehussey · 13/12/2017 13:16

Thank you, stringchild :-)

Wafflenose · 13/12/2017 13:16

Regionals and reserve list for U12 for Goo.

If you or your children know her, please do NOT share this information because she doesn't know yet. We'll tell her after her concert tonight.

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stringchild · 13/12/2017 13:13

Well done Marmaduke juniot😀

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marmadukehussey · 13/12/2017 13:09

Thanks bassclef and folkmamma - she looked so despondent this morning, it'll come as both and joy and a relief for her to know!

Fingers firmly crossed for everyone else x

folkmamma · 13/12/2017 13:03

Yay for miniMarm!!!! at last the Yes's are coming!! Smile

bassclef · 13/12/2017 13:00

Massive congratulations to mini marmaduke! I think the first to get a yes for residentials on this board!

CharisInAlexandria · 13/12/2017 12:59

Oh and we will hear in January which regional orchestra we will be allocated to. So London Junior or Southeasterlies for DD.

Happy either way.

marmadukehussey · 13/12/2017 12:59

Just received the second email for DD2. It's a yes for the Training Orchestra and regionals. She is going to be over the moon :-)

Good luck everyone still waiting.

CharisInAlexandria · 13/12/2017 12:58

Just phoned and spoke to a helpful lady who said that the London junior and Senior Orchestra are on the same date.

CharisInAlexandria · 13/12/2017 12:53

Annoyingly the only regional orchestra for which they don’t have dates is the London Junior which I have put down as DDs first choice (southeasterlies are second as quite a long drive)

Instead they have posted the dates of the London senior twice!

folkmamma · 13/12/2017 12:53

Thanks Charis, in my haste to click 'YES LET US IN' I must have forgotten to scroll down..... Wink

folkmamma · 13/12/2017 12:51

No, that's last years...

CharisInAlexandria · 13/12/2017 12:51

Link to regional orchestra dates

www.nco.org.uk/nco-2018/regional-orchestras/regional-sign-up

snowbellina · 13/12/2017 12:50

Oh no, I see it's last year's list.

snowbellina · 13/12/2017 12:48

Is the list on NCO for 2018 the final names?

TaggieOHara · 13/12/2017 12:30

Sorry to hear about the feedback, Charis. Like most of the others, DS's report was kind. Really lovely about the pieces and tactful about his sightreading. They also helpfully (for me) said that his violin was lying 'a little low', which I have been campaigning about for months. Maybe he will listen to them!

Kutik73 · 13/12/2017 12:29

I really hope DS can also join you South Easteries forks!! Fingers and toes and everything crossed.

TaggieOHara · 13/12/2017 12:24

We are Southeasterlies too!

folkmamma · 13/12/2017 12:20

We are violin South Easterlies too! DD also would have been U11 if she got full membership.. sounds like there are a lot of very good 10/11 yr old violinists out there! Smile