I just played Tristan und Isolde at the Met EIGHT TIMES. The opera is 5 hours long. By the end I was sooooo done. Like seriously, I had to play a series of whole notes, then hold a long decrescendo to a pianissimo at the end of the Liebestod. Every time I wasn’t sure I could hold on! But I remembered your advice about finding a color to focus on. The inside of my music folder had a little tab of blue and my eyes found that color and I held on!! Sometimes I needed even more and I found a bright white violin case in the bit, then a red luggage tag. WHEW.

Joy — French Horn, New York

She picked up the idea from a Dispatches sneak peek. She’s never seen the full system.