Hi everyone

Is anyone free on Friday? My accompanist has just told me that her anticipated page-turner can't make it to my LTCL exam, so I need to find a replacement.

The exam's at Trinity College in Greenwich, at 2pm - we'll be there from 1.30 or thereabouts - and should be over by about 2.50 pm.

Please PM me if you would be free/prepared to do it.

Thanks

Katyjay

I would have been happy to do it, as it's the holidays, but I'm away on the Easter Early Music course from tomorrow for a week (yay!), so I won't be around! But I just wanted to wish you the best of luck - I do hope it all goes well, and look forward to reading about it (probably when I get back from the course, although I will be taking my laptop just-in-case - but last year the venue's Internet connection was 'down' for almost the whole time we were there!)

GOOD LUCK, KATYJAY

GOOD LUCK!!! sure it will be brill!
sadly i don't even know where greenwich is (somewhere near london?) and i'm either going to be at school or off ill so i won't be much use i'm afraid but best of luck, hope it goes really well for you
love hoxie
x

Thank you both of you.

Jo - I hope you enjoy the course.

Hoxie, yes it's in south-east London; and I hope that you are back to school and feeling well.

Oh damn, I'm going to be there from thursday till tuesday but there's some funeral on Friday. It seems pointless to go, seeing as I've only seen this person once in my entire life. Anyway, I've committed myself to it now. Would have come and turned for you otherwise. Your pages, that is; me just standing there and turning won't be much good!

Good luck and hope it goes well.

ooh thanks! now i know where two cities in england are
i'm not feeling ill, i'm just struggling to walk due to having myalgia (sp?) last year which has triggered off with coursework stress! so i've been off today but will hopefully be back before the holidays begin but thanks

I might be able to

I'll give you a definite answer tomorrow (I'm supposed to have a meeting on Friday but I've got a feeling it's been cancelled); in the meantime, if there's anyone who can definitely help katyjay, let her know.

katyjay, if it wouldn't involved rather a long train journey then I would be happy to - what a great excuse to listen to you sing - but I do hope it goes really well!

Best wishes - sorry can't help out!

Sorry I can't be of any help (a bit too far to be feasible) but just wanted to wish you all the best for it .

Good luck! Hope it goes well.

Car Expert

do you not have a local music teacher who could do it? unless there are more people on here from london than i'm guessing anyway, best of luck again, i really hope you can find someone to help

Thanks for all your support, folks, it's really appreciated.

I've tried calling a few people locally, but the short notice means it's not an easy time for anyone (and I live the wrong side of London for Greenwich, it's an hour and a half journey from here).

Sorry katyjay... it's a tad too far

All the best though, I'm sure you'll sing brilliantly

Best of luck katyjay, sadly I'm not going to be around to help you, sorry....

No, sorry

Hope you find someone close by!

Katyjay, Sorry I can't help either. The very best of luck though, I'm sure it will go really well.

Just about to PM Katyjay to say I could do it if she still hasn't found anyone. Good excuse to spend a bit of time in the British Library!

Thank you everyone for all the good wishes. And thanks to the people who pm'd me.

Deborah has very kindly agreed to do the page-turning - thanks very much.

Cheers

Katyjay

glad you've got someone, best of luck for your exam hope it all goes well for you
love hoxie
x

'Tis true I'll try not to start crying during Beim Schlafengehen.

DipABRSM page-turning for barcarolle last summer, LTCL page turning for katyjay this spring. Anyone going to help me get my page-turning fellowship in a forthcoming session?

Depends if you're a good girl and your rates are reasonable

Are we still talking page-turning?

Debzie! I'm surprised at you stooping to my level of double-entendre!

Oops! Assuming you're still talking page-turning, yes and yes.

Since all this is sorted now, all that remains for me to say is good luck .

Deborah is currently celebrating her grade 6 theory result. Good luck for tomorrow katyjay.

Well, I'm back! What an afternoon - a magical mystery tour around Greenwich, a bit of a gossip (it wasn't my fault we ended up talking about Dmitri Hvorostovsky, honest!) - oh, and katyjay did her recital. From my seat in the corner, far beyond the lowest notes of the piano, she did very well. The Menotti made me laugh, the Strauss made me cry, the whole lot made we want to sing!

katyjay will no doubt give you her views on the whole experience, but if it was down to me I'd be happy to award her an LTCL.

Great . If she's anything like me, she'll be glad of having you there as I can remember very little of how my actual performance went when I come out the exam .

Sounds good, glad it went well!

Well, I'm back too, absolutely shattered. Still bugging myself about the error in the Strauss, the slips in the Britten and the miscount in the Menotti - although the bulk of the programme went OK, I think.

Deborah was a great help, and heroically didn't say anything when I got us lost on the way back to the train station......someone had put a building site in the way.

People are so inconsiderate!

Sounds like it went well - it seems people generally remember their mistakes rather than the good bits, and from D's account it sounded really good

Well done ladies, and I look fwd to seeing a repeat performance at first hand in London in June. D are you gonna turn the pages for _that_ ?

WELL DONE!
i'm sure it went really well, now you can treat yourself to a nice long rest

Sounds like it went well katyjay, well done!

I'm sure you did really well.

The worst thing about exams / interviews or anything where you are under pressure and want to do well is that afterwards you run everything over in your mind again... and again... and again....

Try and forget about it - bet it was a great performance and that's what counts - and go and pour yourself a glass of wine or something, then have a restful weekend.

Oh I know, I hate it... I hate the way the aural is always last in music exams, seeing as the last section of the aural is what I always fall down on, and I go out of the exam thinking about it

But I'm sure you did great - and nice name!! Lol.

3 mistakes out of a whole programme Sounds like you did a really good job to me

Actually you can do the various parts of the exam in any order you like. At the moment I think that point is only made in "These Music Exams", but I believe it's going to be mentioned in the practical exam regulations in future. I've accompanied exams where the candidate wanted to start with something other than the accompanied items and that was OK - I just had to lurk outside until they were ready for me!

I can't - I'm on holiday that week, so I'll have to leave katyjay's extremely capable accompanist in someone else's (your?) hands.

Glad to hear you survived, katyjay. I'm looking forward to hearing all about it (and the master class) in due course.

Well done Katyjay .