Summer 21 music thread

[squintsoftheworldunite]

Hello peeps....

Decided (on a grey, drizzly late June morning!) that it was time for some summer music thread fun....!

My DC is coming to the end of a first term at specialist school, just had first public concert and was reminded of the absolute joy of public performance. We got a couple of exams out of the way before the new beginning, a theory exam coming up this summer but that's all. Some exciting summer music, including a solo performance at a "grown up" concert and some music courses to keep said offspring busy. Excited to see NCO auditions return, even if they're recorded only... Hoping for actual courses next year!

Thanks to those who paved the way in times gone by with the music threads!

@horseymum the places DD is applying the teaching will be in German. School are being great at helping her get up to a reasonable level (from scratch!).
@Siriusmuggle DD is also annoyed about RAM wanting recorded submission - but this does help to spread things out a bit as they want that in by end of October and then her live London ones will be normal time around beginning of Dec.

@nomorehorses he's not a fan of recorded ones -he'd rather do live video. He hasn't got that repeated take mentality. We'll have to see how it all pans out for them.

I was annoyed that last year (for postgrad) RAM still wanted the £100 audition fee for a totally online recording. Other places dd applied to reduced the fee for online auditions reflecting the fact that they didn't have to pay for accompanists and other costs related to in person auditions.

@Siriusmuggle RAM is recorded audition sent in to them, no live video option. DD also not a fan of recording.

I really think they should be in person now with video as a contingency plan.
The crazy thing with RNCM is that his tutors work there and he sees them in person every week anyway. I don’t know if they’d be on the panel but if they are he’ll be doing a video for his face ro face tutors to watch!

Video auditions seem ridiculous at this point - particularly with tutors he already has, sirius.. good luck though!.

Nomorehorses it's so exciting to see students applying to study abroad. Both of my girls speak some Spanish (went to school in Latin America when tiny) and we've kept their tutor on in the hopes that they would cope if they ever needed to study for anything in a Spanish-speaking country - German would faze them though! Since they both seem determined to study latin as their one language for GCSE they aren't getting any help from school!

Just received the school piccolo. Ouch. Love that it is the only instrument I've ever seen that comes with earplugs. Presumably for the player, not the rest of the family? Perhaps we need more?

We dont have a piccolo but we do have various sets of ear defenders for practise - percussion mainly (although trumpet practise is also fairly errm penetrating

As for languages, we're in scandinavia and the kids are from s young age just expected to handle (music) instruction in any scandinavian language or english with instructors /mentors from various places

I think we might have to admit it's a new term
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/extra_curricular_activities/4352298-Autumn-21-music-thread