Spring /Summer 25 - Music thread

@TreeAtMyWindow glad they are enjoying it. I generally work on the ' no news is good news' principle. We are lucky to get the odd text, a phone call is very rare!

Well done on the fantastic GCSE results. I hope they've all enjoyed their orchestra courses.

DD is currently on the Rodolfus choir course. I'm sure she's having a great time, but I wasn't prepared for how much I would miss her. She's called a couple of times, but I only get a couple of minutes of chat before it becomes clear she would rather be spending time with her new friends than filling her mum in on what she's been up to. I'm sure you're all veterans of residential music courses - I just wanted to share with people who would understand!

Well done to your ds both on the results and the concert!

dd is the same - gcse results yesterday (all amazing) and a concert tonight for her orchestra course! The residential was definitely a good distraction in the run up to results day.

This is the first time for dd that she’s playing a full symphony. She’s finding it quite tough on the arms (cello) but is having a lot of fun.

Well, yesterday was gcse results and concert day of orchestra course!

Good day - 9 for music. And a few others, including stellar mark for drama, which is making him think he should do it as a fourth A level. 🤔

Concert astounding. Four days of rehearsal, and no one over 18, and sounded like a professional orchestra.

We have used that software for a different proctored test and the room scan is so painful - we had to buy a separate webcam as ours is built into the computer. I was very grateful that she took her theory exam in school after that experience!

@ThisAgileDeepthank you for sharing the experience. I think I read your post a couple of years ago too lol. DS is only 8 so I did the scanning for him. Maybe next time I leave it to him - he might do a better job 🤣. Fingers crossed he doesn’t have to do it again. He’ll probably be sick to revise again!

I think you'd better wait. My daughter took the Theory 5 exam when she was 7 so we didn't take it seriously. All the scanning went wrong, but she just went with the questions and submitted （and some questions she couldn't do before it was auto submitted）. When the results out, she failed, but we got email from ABRSM asked us to retake the exam for free due to error on internet transmission. The 2nd time, she handled all the process herself, as we thought she would definitely take another theory exam again when she grows up, so we didn't care much. She was too young so she couldn't do the scanning correctly. But she passed the exam, and the new result overrode the old one, I don't think ABRSM is strict on how we scan the room.

Wow northern that’s quite a story. Hopefully ours is okay too

Has anybody actually done a bad room scan and failed because of it?

Yeah I e heard of so many horror stories about it and was quite worried about it already beforehand!

I’d wait. Everyone who sits it seems to have a story!

Hope all DC are enjoying their well earned summer breaks.
Apologies as I have to let something out of my chest. My DS did his grade 5 theory exam online last week but I’m worried like hell now. I think I might have messed up the room scan. I used the webcam to scan but the cable wasn’t very long and I had to duck under the cable at one point. I couldn’t do a good smooth 360 scan a there’s only 30 secs. I tried a few times in the end went with the last one. I’m not sure I actually covered all parts of the 4 walls. Webcam is zoomed in quite a bit so I couldn’t cover a whole wall so had to move it up and down. I don’t know why I didn’t use the mobile phone to do the scan. I think I was panicking at the time as we had a problem with software install prior to that and I had to call hubby to help. I was worried the 3 hour window will close. Overall it was very stressful. Now I don’t think I’ve done the best job at all. Also we forgot to show the blank piece of paper before the exam so I showed it just after he started the exam. DS forgot to rip up the paper before closing the exam so I emailed them the torn off paper afterwards. It was such a bad experience now I’m worried he might have to do it again if this one came back invalid or something. I feel sorry for my DS. Im sure he would have a good score as long as the room scan was acceptable.
What do you wise ppl think? Should I pay and ask him resit the exam or wait till 28 days?
thank you for reading!

@se22mother ha!

I've yet to hear what DD2's cousin thinks of her first proms trip - no doubt dd2 analysing the whole thing in great and tedious detail.

I did jokingly suggest she see it at the Prom tonight… she declined 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@se22mother very dedicated of her to do it all again!

double shos summer here…. DD not impressed

Thanks @achangeofnameisasgoodasarest DS did it 2 years ago and I had to go and get his gcse results and whatsapp them to him! The signal there wasn't great so he didn't get his results for hours

@Pollyanna8234 DD2 is not doing SLYO this time as she's just done Shos 5 with LSSO and the concert clashes with GCSE results day as well.

I hope they've found someone as they did ring me at one point to beg her to do the contra part - she was pretty adamant she wouldn't feel up to it. Lots of her friends are more dedicated I think and will be doing it anyway.

Hope he has fun!

@achangeofnameisasgoodasarest DS went to Shos 13 last night and loved it. It was his 3rd Prom this week! He had managed to get a cheap restricted view seat in the Rausing circle. However, a couple (50s ish) arrived to sit next to him after the 1st piece. The man spent the whole of the Ravel scrolling on his mobile and then stood for the whole of the encore. DS could not cope with this and joined some friends that were Promming for the second half and said he looked up to see the same man standing for the whole half!

He is doing SLYO this week coming so will have to pause on the Proms attendance for a bit

@ThisAgileDeep - to PM someone you need to click on the three little dots at the top right of their message - that brings up a drop down menu that includes a PM option.

My apology, I mean state school 😂