Gus would be best served by imagining himself "practicing hard and mastering the troublesome passages".
All music majors and minors are required to exhibit a senior recital.
WELL, a senior recital is a melodic execution done on either an instrument or with the voice. It is typically 40-60 minutes, and the music performed is more often than not in a traditional setting. It's a cumulation of everything that the student has studies and learned in his/her four years of study and ranges in melodic styles from the Baroque time frame to the twentieth century.