2019 [DFO] Banner Tournament: First Round Day 14

14 days to complete a round? What are we, the world’s longest Row, Row, Row Your Boat round? No, that gets no YouTube link. Today we get The Man, Jascha Heifetz, playing a polonaise. Except I prefer the A Major—I’ve played them both but I like the A Major better but I can’t find a Heifetz version, just the one from the Masterclass series. Also Heifetz does stuff that isn’t in the original score, but he can get away with it because he’s Jascha motherfucking Heifetz (or he was, as he’s sadly been dead for over 30 years). He does this in the Conus (even if I still despise the piece), and the Tchaikovsky (which is an extension of the Auer edition), and in the Mendelssohn he adds the octaves that were in the first edition at the end of the first movement (which I also did way back when and would do again upon a re-learning of the piece because at this point I feel like I’d have to).

Now that I’ve successfully alienated most, if not all of the audience (way to go, Senor), here’s today’s penultimate pair of polls to vote on before the bracket branches into its second round. And on an unrelated note, happy Pi Day!

Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment. Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.

Tomorrow may or may not have other Classical music dances or at least dance-based music—I don’t think you can dance to 19th century Romantic solo salon music polonaises very properly. But we’ll see. Beware the Ides, after all.

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Senor Weaselo
Senor Weaselo plays the violin. He tucks it right under his chin. When he isn't doing that, he enjoys watching his teams (Yankees, Jets, Knicks, and Rangers), trying to ingest enough capsaicin to make himself breathe fire (it hasn't happened yet), and scheming to acquire the Bryant Park zamboni.
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blaxabbath

Very unfair matchup for a great bengals comment.

Redshirt

Of course my comment was going up against porn. It was all over except the clean up and nap.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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To big for DFO.

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Unsurprised

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Redshirt

That’s what she said.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Does Janay Rice have to apologize if a comment about her loses?

nomonkeyfun

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Trials of Goodell’s human interaction chip look like they’re progressing nicely.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

This would be the fan interaction:

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ballsofsteelandfury

An AOL / porn joke will always get my vote.

King Hippo

a/s/l??

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