Dear Angela,
My goodness! After reading of your trials and tribulations in trying to find a practice piano and privacy for working on it in Sao Paulo (I loved your image of playing for the bar customers in the hotel!), I am doubly looking forward to hearing your performance of Messiaen's Turangalila here in Montreal next month. It would seem you are having to climb mountains to conquer it. Here is a huge wish that you may succeed, and with far fewer obstacles in the coming weeks.
All the best! With the effort you are putting into the work, it deserves to result in a tour de force.
-- Margaret Hofmann