Magic?

Mahler said, "All the magic in music comes in the last 2-3% of preparation."

So I have 2 weeks left until my recital. I've done all the dirty work like shifts, vibrato, intonation, metronome, memorization, etc. LeeAnn asked me in my lesson today: "How are you going to practice these next 2 weeks?" I told her I would do more careful practice and perform a few more times. She told me that I needed to have a new mindset, a new way of practicing for the last 10% of my preparation. She directed me to violinmasterclass.com where I went to a video where Sassmannshauss compares preparing a piece to building a house. "Building a house may have taken a year, but painting it takes 2 weeks." He says that detailed, analytical, and technical work takes 90% of your practice time, and inspired musical realization of your dreams gets the final 10%. Well, I have 2 weeks left, so I am going to work out the magic that I want to be able to convey, working on one aspect of the music at a time. I'll probably have a few practice sessions on each piece checking vibrato, phrasing, shifting, and bow control.

Another way I'm going to practice is with the One Note At a Time method, you can also find at ViolinMasterClass:

I'll play the first and second notes and ask myself what is going on? Like a bow change, change in sounding point, a string crossing, whether the note is a finger drop, lift, or shift, how I coordinate it with my bow or if my vibrato is continuous.

This'll take a while, so I hope it works!