<p>Stradmom,</p>
<p>My advice on bringing music into the room for a string instrument is different from MM’s singers’ experience.</p>
<p>If the music is required to be memorized - and it generally is for strings - I would not bring the music into the room. Your D is already carrying an instrument and bow and there probably won’t be a music stand or any place to easily set the music. It would be very, very unusual for the panel to ask to see a score - believe me, unless she is playing an unpublished work - which I would NOT recommend and which sometimes is explicitly disallowed - the faculty will know her repertoire. Most often at the bigger places, students are asked to get their instruments out and ready outside the room and won’t have to deal with cases either.</p>
<p>With one of my kids in the past, we watched a student come out of an audition at a university shaking his head -“They didn’t even a music stand!” Kid had brought a whole stack of full scores and books into the room and ended up putting it on the floor - no piano, no stand, etc. Shouldn’t really have been a problem - go with the flow - but clearly this kid was very rattled. So, whatever she does, be prepared for several different set of scenarios!</p>
<p>Sometimes string players are asked for an etude or sonata without memory requirement. If so - obviously bring it along! Don’t remember if she’s violin or viola, just a suggestion - if doing a Paganini - play from memory. At the more select schools, faculty is not likely to listen to an etude of lesser difficulty than a Paganini (Rode, Fiorillo, etc.), but be prepared for it anyway!</p>