(S10) - PT 2 - Pregame Hype

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G........ Bb D G Bb.... A F#.. G..... Measure six of the opening movement of Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1: the violin soloist comes in on a low G - the lowest a violin can go. He sound resonates through the concert hall, into the microphone, and out the headphones donned by Dean Jackson. He ascends the G minor scale with such grace, before falling ever so gracefully to the F sharp... before at last, after a moment of tension that felt like a beautiful eternity, he resolves to tonic an octave from where he began.
-- The ball drops, and the rockets away on contact with his right foot. -- The musical maneuver seems to repeat at first before it diverges to a D, an E natural, an F sharp... Bruch has written in melodic minor. But now, he does not resolve it! He goes to the A before G, and only there for a moment! Quickly the pitch rises, more and more, before a C sharp interrupts! And then a D! Where he stays... masterfully written and masterfully played. -- Finally it drops, and a touch of backspin helps it settle at the 8 yard line. -- Jackson listens to a wide variety of music; classical, country, jazz, and rap, just to name a small subset. But the afternoon of Week 2 against the Wraiths, Jackson locked in to Joshua Bell's mastery of the violin and Max Bruch's mastery of the written note.

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