Rick has always advocated "backwards practice," where you start at the end of a piece and work backwards through it in segments. The reason for doing this is that it is more typical to start at the beginning and then run out of time or energy before the end is reached, resulting in the end of the piece being short-shrifted.
I did this today with Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, starting at Rehearsal Mark 58, doing that and 59, then bouncing back up and doing 56 and 57 ... got halfway through the piece working backwards in my little 30-minute lunch practice.
First, though, I did my warmup, adding the pedal practice Jack gave me yesterday. I'm hardly getting any pedal notes now, but I know I have gotten them before and am confident that if I perservere, they will come, they will come. I have two pedal notes in this Berlioz, actually, B flat and A, and there is just no way I'll hit those reliably for this concert ... so will take them one octave up.
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