DD (9) works really hard at music and is pretty reasonable for her age. She spends a significant amount of time every week on external rehearsals around our city and practising at home.
There is a concert at school tomorrow. A couple of weeks ago her music teacher called in DS and her friend and asked them to play a specific piece tomorrow. The piece was actually pretty hard for them - probably a grade or two above what they would normally play. They have absolutely worked their socks off to learn the piece and get it into shape to play tomorrow. They’ve spent hours and hours and hours on it. They learned it in the first instance on the sunniest weekend of the year when they could have been out playing with their friends, and then DD’s friend was on our doorstep at the crack of dawn this weekend for them to practice playing it together.
This afternoon the music teacher has said that he doesn’t want them to play it after all. He hasn’t heard them play it. I was a bit confused and emailed him to ask whether they needed to bring in their instruments because I thought DD must have got the wrong end of the stick. I explained politely that they had worked very hard on it so would like to play it if possible etc. He has replied saying that he had suggested that they not play it because he didn’t want to put too much pressure on them but as I had mentioned that they’d worked hard, he would let them play it in the rehearsal tomorrow and “hopefully” in the concert too.
I wouldn’t have minded at all whether they played in the concert, but AIBU to be a bit surprised by this after they’ve spent so long working on it? A sanity check would be much appreciated - I really don’t want to be unreasonable. It’s late at night and there is always a risk of getting yourself all wound up about things that might feel a bit daft in the morning!