| 单词 | fiddle |
| 例句 | Granddaddy fiddles with the button on the oven clock, as if Grandma hasn’t said a word. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She fiddled with the Book Scavenger logo pin she wore on her hoodie. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He’ll fiddle with the VCR till it pauses on the exact moment of van Damme holding his knee up to his chest before exploding it out sideways into a guy’s stomach. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Then I fiddled with it until I got the date I wanted. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z So that I don’t just sit there looking uninteresting when she gets back, I pull out my notebook to fiddle with my poem. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z As I fiddled with it, there was the singing rustle of nylon from without and two young women entered, blinking and bedraggled. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Pa packed his fiddle carefully in its box and put it in the big sled that was already waiting at the gate. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Macon hesitated, then wheeled around in his chair and began fiddling with the combination to his safe. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z There was one on an accordion, another on a fiddle, and a third was miscellaneous on maracas and triangle and drums when needed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Dimple sank into the chair and fiddled absently with the laptop. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z So she swung one leg over the porch railing and fiddled with the window. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z But, irritatingly dutiful, he takes the other seat at the table, fiddling with one of the teacups. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Beings,” she said to her husband, “that we’ve got the fiddle for Paul Jones, little Blossom could take lessons too and both could practice on the same fiddle.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa looked, and then he took down his fiddle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I smiled at them and sat with my purse on my lap, fiddling with the clasp until the teacher entered. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “You know,” I said, as I fiddled with the knobs, “I kind of like that you suck at something.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Thanks,” he said, fiddling with the boot slider on his bolo tie and looking at the ground nervously. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Scipio had taken off his mask and was fiddling with it anxiously. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z She kept fiddling with her glasses—they had thick lenses that made her eyes look enormous. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Taryn’s cheeks turned pink, and she fiddled with the strap of her red tank top. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z "We're on our way to a party," I blurted, since Doreen had gone suddenly dumb as a post and was fiddling in a blasé way with her white lace pocketbook cover. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The few days inside had done her well, and she sang under her breath and into the top of her sweater, a nursery rhyme about a fiddle and a cat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Vonetta fiddled with her hair band or twirled her longest braid around her finger. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, from behind me, the echo of guitars and fiddles twang. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Kin fiddled with the magical sword’s cloth wrapping for several long seconds, saying nothing. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Herman E. Calloway stood next to his giant fiddle and started bobbing his head too. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z I fiddle over details, hunch over my pictures, dabbing at the highlights with tiny brushes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Science is loud because Mr. Levy is fiddling with a plastic skeleton and not paying attention to us. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z I sneaked a look to see what he was fiddling around with on my chiffonier. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z It’s embarrassing to spend all your time with a seven-year-old girl, but Jimmy is always fiddling with his mechanical devices, so what am I supposed to do? Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he hopped down the steps working an imaginary fiddle under his chin to match the country tune that was playing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He reported that he had recovered from his recent bouts of illness and now felt “fit as a fiddle.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He used to play country fiddle at square dances and was twenty-two before he heard an orchestra. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Now run along and let Ma put you to bed,” said Pa, and he took his fiddle out of its box. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z From the gallery above drifted down the merry strains of pipes and fiddle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa’s fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He fiddled with the salt and pepper shakers on the table in front of him, trying to figure out what to do with the fatherly feeling. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She fiddled with the strings of her racket, straightening them the way players do on TV. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He reached over her head and fiddled with something. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He dropped his eyes and began fiddling with the papers in front of him. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Even now, as he sits there fiddling with some kind of plastic box, he's easily ignored in the presence of his large and domineering companions. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Beetee calls us over, and it turns out that during all those hours of fiddling with wire, he has indeed come up with a plan. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I fiddle with the color and blanch us out to black and white. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Miss Edmunds fiddled a minute with her guitar, talking as she tightened the strings to the jingling of her bracelets and the thrumming of chords. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Gaheris, perched on the long table, was fiddling with the braces of a leather hood for a hawk. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There are instruments and human players but sometimes a fiddle or a drum makes instruments of those who play them, and all are put in servitude to the song. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Mosca sat down next to it and started to fiddle with the dials. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the color of your eyes today,” I sighed, surrendering, staring down at my hands as I fiddled with a piece of my hair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Not infrequently, the others who played the British jigs and hornpipes with me on fiddle or pipe were of my Africk race. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He kept taking them out, fiddling with them, tearing up one, and adding another. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z As I fiddle, I realize that it’s not made by Henka Games—it’s by some other company, with weaker security. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In the summer evenings Pa did not tell stories or play the fiddle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In five years, he could play the fiddle almost as well as his father, who had never taken a lesson in his life, could play the guitar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I stopped my fiddling and turned to Big Sue. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He worked at the radio, tested it, fiddled some more. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Stephanie started fiddling with the cuff of her shirt, picking at the button as though she was trying to tear it off. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z It sounded like the infernal spawn of a Persian drum beat and a dozen Celtic fiddles. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “Let’s just drive,” Dad said glumly, fiddling with the switch on his spotlight. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Then Pa took his fiddle out of its box and began to play, and all the couples stood in squares on the floor and began to dance when Pa called the figures. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I rested my chin on my knee, started fiddling with my shoelaces. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I knew we were in major trouble, but I went through the motions of removing the cowling and fiddling with the spark-plug connections. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I walk over to the sink and try the faucets, and after some fiddling, they spit out some yellowish water—probably straight from the river. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z But Pa was in the house when it rained, and he began again to play the fiddle after supper. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Closely on the heels of this failure was another talented musician who played fiddle, excellent as the two before him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I drafted the piece in a week or two, fiddled with it for another week, then published it as a separate short story. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He stroked his hair thoughtfully and fiddled with the ribbon around his ponytail. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Sandi, who had lost interest in pleading for a reasonable menu and had been fiddling with the ribbon in her hair, looked up. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Jamie was sitting on the edge of his bed, fiddling with something on his wrist. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “Harry,” I said, choosing my words carefully while he fiddled with my ribbon, “do you think...do you think I could be a schoolteacher?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I fiddle with some artichokes, the cold spines prickling my hand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z His eyes dropped to his camera and he fiddled with the lens. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I fiddled with his ears as though they were the string pegs and then I playfully tickled him as he laughed softly. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He fiddled with the controls, turning the heater up and the music down. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The only person who looked equally out of place was the thin reader, Darius, who was sitting at the very end of the row of black-clad men and kept fiddling with his glasses. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The thralls were pouring ale, and there was music, fiddles and skins and drums. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Papa was fiddling with the stick pile and matches. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “She was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in astronomy from the University of Michigan, and she’s the reason I decided to pursue a career in astronomy,” Ayana said, fiddling with her braids. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z On a few walks our enthusiasm would build up to the point that we fiddled with the models when we got back to our office. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Then he fiddled with his apron pocket and said, “I saw a black cat yesterday night, after Mama and Amala left.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And Clayton fiddled with the folded paper that told the story of Cool Papa Byrd’s life, read by one of Cool Papa Byrd’s brothers. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The old man stopped fiddling with his fingers, and looked sharply at the King. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Sharpe and the new investors made us sensible of how unprofitable were the products of crayon, quill, and fiddle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “But most of us, I am sure, ‘fiddled with the knobs.’ Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Then they smile sympathetically and nod while I fiddle nervously with the sash of my dress. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z All the while Herman E. Calloway and the Thug kept everything moving by making the drums and the giant fiddle pound out a soft steady beat, like someone’s heart turned way up loud. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z I turn and fiddle with a family picture on the wall, making it crooked. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He took them off and rotated the lenses while Spurge fiddled with the box. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z When they see me walking so easily, Aunt Sylvia sheds a tear and Uncle Bill proudly says, “That doctor didn’t fiddle around. I told him to fix you up like new. And he did.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z She fiddles nervously with the big blue buttons on her yellow fleece coat, as if she can button out the termites like the cold. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He fiddled with the peak of his baseball cap. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Harrison fiddled with the arm bandage, thick with false blood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She fiddles with her hands and doesn’t respond. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Who is the article playing for us upon the fiddle?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z If she was good with computers, it was only as a hobby, and I doubt that a computer hobby would enable someone to fiddle with an Erudite simulation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She fiddles with the zipper on her sweatshirt, then looks up and has a weird expression on her face. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z She was fiddling with a loose thread on her uniform, wrapping it around and around her finger. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Hollister stepped away from the counter and fiddled with books on a nearby shelf, straightening some, pulling a title off one shelf and moving it to the row below. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The rabbi wants the Zoom connection to be online and running before the service starts so no one has to fiddle with electronics during a Sabbath service. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Art picked his hat up, set it in his lap, and began fiddling with its brim. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Alex was small, the perfect height to fiddle with the antenna. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I had both hands on the stake and was still fiddling with it when I realized another danger: At any second electricity would start surging through the fence. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z When a departing Hollywood film crew forgot to pack its loudspeaker equipment, racetrackers appropriated the gear, fiddled with it, and soon fashioned the first race-calling public address system. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The musicians fiddled, tooted, and banged as if they enjoyed it, everybody danced who could, and those who couldn’t admired their neighbors with uncommon warmth. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He kept fiddling with his shotgun and glowered unpleasantly at the three of them as if he felt like shooting them on the spot. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The photographer fiddled with his hot white lights. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I ask Lorena as she fiddles with my makeup on my dresser. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z My dad fiddles with the TV and all the cords, and manages to get the ancient DVD player up and running. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z She could just see him seated in his favorite chair, fiddling with a model ship he’d been building for the better part of a year, a pint of lager within arm’s reach, as always. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Moreover, after tea I would show up for only a few minutes of minor fiddling before dashing away to have sherry with the girls at Pop’s. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I waved my hand at the man with the fiddle, and then put my finger to my lips for silence. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z When we got home, Grampa settled into his living room chair to read the Commonwealth while I fiddled with the radio looking for a baseball game. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z He was standing up, watching George and Grandma, and the bow danced over the fiddle strings. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He fiddled with the lock inside until he heard it click. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z She slouched down in the pew and fiddled with the beads on her bracelet. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I fiddled with the BiPAP so Mom would help me take it off, but she didn’t. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Even before I had a chance to think I said, “You owe me a nickel, my daddy plays a giant fiddle and his name is Herman E. Calloway.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Absently, his hands fiddled with a plastic card on his key ring. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Music wafted through the dusk—the trill and wail of a klezmer’s violin rivaled by a woman fiddling a lively Irish jig. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She stared at Megan, who was fiddling with the seven or eight band bracelets on her arm. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Ob was never embarrassed about being a disabled navy man who fiddled with whirligigs all day long, and I never was embarrassed about being a kid who’d been passed around for years. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z He was fiddling with an old radio and was so engrossed in his work that he didn’t notice Bo creeping up on him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Frank is fiddling with his cigarette in his recliner during a commercial break, which is enough for me to start across the main room—crawling so there’s no chance he’ll notice me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Not that I care, but what I do want to know is if she’s still fiddling with the idea of leaving. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “All in a trumpet case? I should have taken up the bass fiddle.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She fiddled with the Book Scavenger logo pin she wore on her hoodie. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Look—you know I can’t fiddle around with things like that. It’ll be no fun for her when this project gets known and she finds out I’m a white man.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Naomi fiddled with the fabric in her lap. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The other room was loud and merry with the music of the fiddle and the noise of the dancing. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She put her hand to her neck and fiddled with the gold chain she was wearing. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I mean, what if the guy opens his front door at the very moment I’m standing on his doormat fiddling with a gum wrapper? Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z His mother fiddled with the sugar bowl, a blithe expression on her face. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Jessie hung the dishtowel on the oven handle and fiddled with it until it was perfectly straight. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z He turned his face to the water, fiddling with his oarlock so the others would not see. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The veterans hadn’t noticed anything because Ruth, at the same moment, had risen to her feet and was fiddling with her coat. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, he thought it inappropriate for scientists to engage in political activity of any kind—“political fiddling around,” as he called it in a conversation with Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I fiddled with the knob, but she pulled the plug out of the socket instead. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z We fiddled dances, rounds, and catches, and the soldiers were glad enough of our company. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Mama fiddled with her fingers and said nothing for a while. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He picked up his pipe and fiddled with it; he liked the feel of it in his hand. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “I want you to mess with stuff. This is a place of tinkering, fiddling, experimentation. But,” he added pointedly, “before you touch, ask somebody.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Her mom fiddled with the clasp on her watch. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Miss Celia just sits, looking out at that tree, fiddling with a pen in her hand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The young nurse fiddled with the edge of her uniform pocket. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He fiddled with a little tablet on a cord around his neck. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He put one of his hands near the top of the fiddle and began pulling at the strings with his other hand. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Laura and Mary lay in their trundle bed and listened to the Sunday hymns, for even the fiddle must not sing the week-day songs on Sundays. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “My smoothbore will blast a hole or twelve in each of you while you’re still fiddling with the ramrod of your grandma’s blunderbuss there.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A faint light burned in the pit revealing a furry creature hunched over a stone slab, fiddling with something. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I bowed my head and fiddled with my red scarf. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She stopped fiddling with the knobs and examined the window. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z His voice was a whine that sounded like an untuned fiddle. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Gum Baby sank to the floor of the raft and fiddled with the empty supply sack. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He reached forward and fiddled with the radio before snapping it off and giving me another warm grin. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The club’s camera didn’t work properly since so many students had fiddled with it over the years. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z She fiddles with the button on her sweater. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I just sat there fiddling with some piping on the bedspread. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The fiddle fig presses against the other wall in the nook, just across from the fern. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She pops the hood, fiddles with some wires, then pulls a toolbox from the trunk. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z She’s always touching your hair or fiddling with your buttons when she asks you something. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Major Major lowered his gaze sheepishly and fiddled with his fingers. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He dropped his gaze to the gunnysack and began to fiddle with the raveled edge. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Back in his bedroom, Harry fiddled aimlessly with his rucksack, then poked a couple of owl nuts through the bars of Hedwig’s cage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I fiddle with a plastic pearl button on my blouse. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I shrugged my shoulders and fiddled with the paper from my straw. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z While Martin entertained himself by fiddling with the soda dispenser, I grabbed a few bags of chips and chocolate bars. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z And then he lifted up both gloved hands and fiddled with the valves until the balloon made a steep descent. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The silence was much worse than the yelling, so I fiddled with the remote. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The stage was completely empty except for Justin, who was sitting on an old rickety chair tuning his fiddle. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “The Devil is commonly supposed to be a black man in habilements of black, playing the fiddle.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He fiddles with his fingers, and then shoves his hands in his back pockets. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z My hands fiddle constantly with the hem of one of my new dresses. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Some stared at the table in front of them; others fiddled with pencils. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Moss reached out and began to fiddle with the tape on the handlebars of his bike, impatience rushing over him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z There’s no time for fiddling around with the buttons, trying to figure out how to work it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z There was a mahogany table in the middle of the saloon with hinged fiddles. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Dad listened, sucking on his cheeks while his right hand fiddled with the gearshift. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I start fiddling with the cream hand towels that are just for decoration. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Emily slugged her brother and then fiddled with the pencil in her ponytail. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Well played. The grips deal with lighting. So fiddle with the light bulbs and see what you can do with that disco ball and all those random reflections.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z She fiddled with the wheel on her mouse. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z ‘That’ll be a lot more fun than fiddling around with figures. I hate figures. Figures are probably the dreariest things on this earth.’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I fiddle with my headphones, trying to reattach the ear pad, but it’s hopeless. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The clapping almost drowned the music of Pa’s fiddle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “First your guys give me this heel lift that crippled me for life,” he grumbled to Hunt, fiddling with the gadget’s tiny buttons, “and now a camera I can’t even see.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z His uncle was at the back wall, fiddling with the combination lock on a large steel door. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Another fifteen minutes’ fiddling by Francis failed to find anything wrong, though for brief intervals my stomach felt uneasy when I saw him frowning. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z When he has the strength, he fiddles with it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As she fiddles with the iPod dock, I fiddle with the pen. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Then he laid away the traps, and he took his fiddle out of its box and began to play. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The present tense is moving forward, discarding concept after concept, and I am off to the side somewhere, fiddling with egg tempera and flat surfaces, as if the twentieth century has never happened. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z On my last day with him, though, as on a few others, Margaret came in to listen—and to fidget and to fiddle with Rufus’s hair and to pet him while I was reading. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He fiddled with his shirt cuff before answering. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He fiddled with the straps on his book bag and stared at me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Lily fiddled with the radio until she found a good station that wasn't in the middle of a long run of commercials. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He fiddles some more and then fires the marble again. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched how he constantly fiddled with his keffiyeh and beat the dust off his clothing while stealing glances at me, making sure I was still there, that this wasn't a dream of his. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Papa, you’d better get them off before they start biting the pegs and strings off the fiddles,” said Bill. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Mapper was nearby, hunched over some scrap of paper and fiddling with his glasses, ignoring the play entirely. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z After pulling a length of the cable out and stripping the ends, she fiddled with a roll of electrical tape until Vogel arrived. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He fiddled around on his phone for a second and then spoke into it. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Dad had just fiddled under the hood the other week. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I fiddled with the tiller handle, looking for a way to end the conversation. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z At the very rear, so far away that they could hardly be seen, were the percussion instruments, and lastly, in a long line up one side of a steep slope, were the solemn bass fiddles. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The Gypsies talked and laughed, and when a band of children with battered horns and fiddles struck up a song, they danced. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Carl scratched beneath his arm, massaged his chest with his thick, heavy fingers, picked up his pipe again and fiddled with it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Sally turned bright red and stopped fiddling with her hair. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He fiddled with the tuning knob, trying to find the station that would air the race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “A few of the atomic contacts were still too close for comfort,” they admitted—but perhaps these would be fixed by additional fiddling. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Sister Martha kept them unlocked on purpose: she had no tools worth stealing, she said, and it was too much trouble to fiddle with a key all the time. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I sat across from him, fiddling with my own writing brush while I listened. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She stares at me, and I keep fiddling. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z This time Fezzik did not give the man in black a chance to fiddle. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I caught the words “a barrel falling over in the warehouse” and “someone fiddling with the door.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The wind coming off the prairie had been strong all day, sometimes gusting wildly, and leaves scuttled along the street; the sound of laughter and fiddle music drifted through the night. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Freeman fiddled with a deck cleat and said nothing. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The thing he was fiddling with began to beep. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I wore my old hey-diddle-diddle pajamas—cats played fiddles, dishes ran away with spoons. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z While he greased the traps, Pa told Laura and Mary little jokes and stories, and afterward he would play his fiddle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not believe that there had been music stands in the minstrels' gallery, and a band playing there, a man with a fiddle, a man with a drum. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He bade me return to the dance and take up my fiddle again, and so I stepped out of the chamber, he kneeling beside my mother to minister to her. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Yes, sir,” Marco says, fiddling with his notebook, running his fingers over the pages that had been wings only minutes before. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Oh, there’s women,” she says, fiddling with a butter knife. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z As she fiddled with the enlarger, Fadi carried the photo paper over to the “wet” area of the darkroom. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He ran a finger over the swoosh, fiddled with the laces, and then finally put one on. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z While spinning along a Kansas highway one fine June morning, Mr. Ziegler spied a red convertible parked by the roadside, its hood up, and a couple of nice-looking youngsters fiddling with the motor. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The captain fiddles with his beard, then says, “She protects us from the challenges we will face before we reach our destination. The monsters toward which we sail.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z We are safe, well ventilated, and incubated, provided we can avoid technologies that might fiddle with that ozone, or shift the levels of carbon dioxide. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She bought a secondhand fiddle for Paul Jones and negotiated lessons for him at fifty cents an hour from a man who called himself Professor Allegretto. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the presence of such nobility, I lowered the fiddle and bow, and fixed my eyes upon the ground. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They peered inside it and fiddled with the tubes and wires. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Sohrab studied the floor and fiddled with the camera in his hands. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “At least clean underwear,” Anya said, fiddling with the backpack’s straps to make it fit better. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z My hands fiddle with the pendant tied around my neck. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Mr. Porter leaned against the doorway, fiddling with his phone but mostly staring at Benji. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z One evening while Granddaddy fiddled with his formula for making liquor from pecans, I sat on a tall stool at his elbow and watched him work. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He fiddled with his gloves, tightening them on his fingers as he rounded the corner. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z If Marcus would look up from the lock instead of fiddling with his huge ring of keys, he’d see everything that happened between Bo and me because in this moment it is so obvious. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She looked at Pa sitting on the bench by the hearth, the fire-light gleaming on his brown hair and beard and glistening on the honey-brown fiddle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z When the fiddles warbled and the drums thumped, he grabbed Nan and paraded her around the dance stages until she was breathless with laughter. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The others bent over to look as Father MacPhail fiddled with the catch. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Owen the Oaf took up his fiddle, and several of the free folk joined in with pipes and drums. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z All the beautiful skirts went swirling by, and the boots went stamping, and the fiddle kept on singing gaily. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We go up the porch and wait there while Mr. Wood well fiddles in the kitchen, squeezing juice from the lemons. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Fezzik let the man in black fiddle around for a bit, tested the man’s strength, which was considerable for someone who wasn’t a giant. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Benny fiddled with his bass, and Ellie pretended to take notes to avoid eye contact with me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Crestfallen, he gazed mutely at the false animal; he took it back from her, fiddled with the legs as if baffled—he did not seem quite to understand. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Travis fiddled with the heater and craned to see any oncoming traffic before turning left. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Acrobats dangled from cords over the canal, lithe bodies garbed in nothing but glitter, while street performers played their fiddles, hoping to garner a coin or two from passersby. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He fiddled with the dial a moment, landing on some mariachi music that was as equally redneck and sappy in its own way as were the cowboy songs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The cages had elaborate bolts on the doors to prevent fiddling by primate fingers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you played us like a new-string fiddle,” High John said. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Riccio fiddled with his cards, pretending not to have heard Ida's question. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He worked steadily all afternoon in his own lab, hot zone AA-4, at the center of the building, where he fiddled with the flasks of virus culture from the monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She fiddled with the chain around her neck, twisting it so that the clasp was in the back. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He leans his head against the seat and fiddles with the silver ring on my finger. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I saw him brighten as he leaned over the computer to fiddle with his music playlist. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We stayed at the beach for a while longer but, no matter how much we fiddled with the telescope, the stars never seemed so far away. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z She was standing beside a steaming pot on a grimy black stove, and was fiddling around with the shelf of squalid-looking pots and pans above it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I fiddle with metal instruments on a nearby cart. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He watched his mother s fingers fiddling one of the bracelets round and round on her wrist, and thought of all the private things she and Mr Hooper had between them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He fiddles with his brown hair and slows, as if he wants to say something. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “It got a lot better after Jessie fiddled with it,” Angie said, pulling up the Internet search engine, which opened at once. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She intended to lift off the porcelain lid and fiddle with the arrangement of bulb and plug inside. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He fiddled with the sticks that were pushed into his hands. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Avery fiddled with the experiment as only a microbiologist could, growing the bacteria in various cultures, adding beef-heart broth, removing contaminant sugars, and growing the colonies on plates. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When Laura and Mary had said their prayers and were tucked snugly under the trundle bed’s covers, Pa was sitting in the firelight with the fiddle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As she wheels me out to the lobby, I clasp my hands in my lap, fiddling nervously. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z While I thus cleaned myself, Dr. Trefusis hunkered down, his thin shanks tucked beside his neck, and he fiddled with the lock at my ankles until my feet were free. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She starts to fiddle with the program, typing in different numbers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Only the bass fiddles rested as the entire orchestra washed the forest in color. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I said, “Really, sir, I swear ’fore God it’s the biggest fiddle in the world.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He was fiddling with something small and pink, rubbing it back and forth in his hand. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Shin fiddled with its dial nearly every morning, switching among the dozen or so Korean-language stations that broadcast daily into North Korea and northeast China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Henry connected the antenna wire, plugged the radio in, and fiddled with the knobs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z When George began to watch the Washington oarsmen on the water, he quickly spotted inefficiencies and deficiencies in the mechanics of their stroke that no amount of fiddling with a skeleton could fix. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The band consisted of a fiddle, drum and cornet. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They teased Skipper John, as they nicknamed the dummy sailor, from their stools as they fiddled with the hemp rope. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z With all the training over the past five days and fiddling with various weapons and techniques, her body ached. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Grace fiddled with the napkin in her lap. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He fiddles with a dial and flips some switches, pokes the pointers down into the guts of the controller, looks at the scope, looks at the diagram, frowns, and then touches something else. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s fiddling with the camera and his dark hair’s fallen into his face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Hannah’s cheeks were faintly pink, and she kept looking at me and then away, fiddling with the strap of her purse. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “No, I don’t,” I said, fiddling with the cap on my water bottle. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z After a long pause Tamika fiddled with the flower tucked behind her ear. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z She fiddled with the lock for a few more seconds and then smiled a big smile. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z He fiddled with the lock and handed it back to me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Someone was fiddling with the lock of the door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z One of the men was tuning his fiddle. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It sounds more like a banjo than a fiddle.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z It was amazing that an old fiddle in Grand- sire’s hands and the old voice calling, ‘Gents ’round the Ladies— Ladies ’round the Gents’ could work such a change in him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He wiped the snowflakes from his eyelashes and fiddled with the dirty buttons on the front of his thin jacket, rubbing them between his fingers the way he had rubbed the cover of his notebook. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z My mama told me that she walked into the room one day and saw the mistress sitting right there next to the master’s bed, knitting and looking fit as a fiddle. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z His stepdad is fiddling with the wiring, probably rewiring it to do something that’d make more sense in an Iron Man comic, like he does with most electronics—eccentric millionaire inventor habits die hard. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Leo fiddled with the bronze Archimedes sphere that he’d installed on the console—his newest and most dangerous toy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Yes,” Chaol said, fiddling with the long hunting knife at his side. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Admittedly a few of the atomic contacts were still too close for comfort, but, after all, the fiddling had just begun. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Then he rolled his big bellows camera into place and started fiddling with it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I fiddle with the curly mass of my bangs and slouch down, feeling like the plainest girl ever next to the fashion plate that is Katherine Deveraux. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Dad’s right in front of the lens, fiddling and setting the camera onto a tripod. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “Yes,” he replied calmly with his hands fiddling with the tools in his trouser pockets. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Connor is still fiddling with the buckles attached to his booster seat, the straps across his chest; I can tell he wants to get out, to find some way to help. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Nick took the gun and fiddled with the hammer, pulling it back to various stops, but he couldn’t get the cylinder to rum. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry, dude,” said Elijah, fiddling with his amp. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I let them fiddle with their phones as I stirred the dduk mixture, allowing my muscles to whip the flour and sugar water into a sweet, chewy mass of luck. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I rested my cheek against the wet tile, fiddled with the tap to cool down the water. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Three of us among the servants made a little consort of music—I on the violin, an indentured Irishman who also played the fiddle, and a slave from another house who played the flageolet. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The boy in the red hat set down the case and fiddled with the strange wooden thing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Elizabeth fiddles with the machine needle, seems worried by it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Paula brought out her phone and fiddled with it and then began to read aloud. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Hugo watched as she fiddled with the pin inside the lock until it clicked and the door opened. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Mrs. Muokelu was in front of her classroom fiddling with the bell. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I jumped up from the couch, which must have startled Joe, because he dropped the rabbit ear antenna he was fiddling with. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Mother fiddled with a pen and paper for several minutes, but she wasn’t able to solve any of the first five equations. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I miss the way you fiddled with your starfish ring when you were nervous. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Looking around the abandoned small towns we drove through, glancing at the gas level, fiddling with the turn signal, fingers dancing on the steering wheel. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The fiddling and the dancing went on and on. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z George sawed with his fiddle, the notes swirling up into night like sparks gusted from a fire. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She fiddled with the edge of her coat’s sleeve. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z It shrunk across the grounds toward the first level of the Zoo of Death, where Count Rugen sat fiddling with some knobs. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, “What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “And now it’s bedtime. Run along, while I get my fiddle.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z To pass time, Helmuth fiddles with a radio dial, trying to tune in a station other than the German Reich radio, the RRG. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Out on the lake, the man in the stalled motorboat still fiddled with his engine. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Scipio fiddled with the string of his mask and looked at Prosper. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Elizabeth fiddles with the buttons and dials on the top as I chew my nails. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z After two songs, the fiddle and horn carried on alone while the drummer went around hat in hand ungraciously accepting the pennies doled out to him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He leans back in his seat with a sigh, fiddling with the radio’s dial. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z But Bryce just shakes his head, slips out from under my arm, and goes back to fiddling with the can opener. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z He wore a three-piece wool suit and fiddled with a small rocket. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z She just fiddled with her glass while I talked, and when I was done she gave this long, kind of whistling sigh and got up to phone my dad. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I found him fiddling with the stove, turning the burners on, staring into the blue flame, turning them off, opening the oven, peering in. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z As I was fiddling with the various stations, I came upon one in the middle of a broadcast of a Shakespearean play—The Merchant of Venice! Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The fiddle sang as it had never sung before. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Hollister stepped away from the counter and fiddled with books on a nearby shelf, straightening some, pulling a title off one shelf and moving it to the row below. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I’m two steps back to where I came from when, just like before, when guitars and fiddles twang like a distant fiesta. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He tuned the banjo carefully, fiddling with knobs and plucking at steel strings. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I’m trying the UN station,” Patrice said, fiddling with the radio dial. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The instructor at the front, with a full beard and dressed in a colorful vest, was fiddling around with the mic on his podium. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z While Nan fiddled with the keys, the wind kicked up and, just as she unlocked the door, a sand-filled gust blew right in our faces. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I pretend to fiddle with the tuning, but Ty figures out that I’m stalling. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z He was fiddling with something—a little metal toy soldier of some kind. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She crawled into her desk and began to fiddle with the backpack she’d left there the day before, while people whispered around her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z While Lorena fiddles with her phone and begins playing her horribly sexist rap songs, I walk over to the altar her mom has set up in the corner of the living room. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z So fifty cents more a week was scraped up and folded into Blossom’s reluctant hand and she was sent off to take fiddle lessons, too. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We know only a few dances at home, the kind that go with fiddle and flute music and require a good deal of space. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She opened her door and fiddled with her seat, the pops, the sweater she liked to drive in, and finally, finally climbed in and left us alone. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Emily slugged her brother and then fiddled with the pencil in her ponytail. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He sat back down and fiddled with his pen. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I pretended to fiddle with my oxygen tank for a second just to kill time. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z And as we continued to swing, looking at each other while crickets played their fiddles in the grass, I slid my hand sideways up toward the place where the Object’s legs joined. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “We got a bunch of signatures for the petitions,” Jessie said as she fiddled with an old computer hard drive she had found on the curb. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z A few steps away, Chip’s mother stood in her nightgown, her hands fiddling with a dish towel. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Leaning over the seat, she fiddled with her pack. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Luke pretended to not hear him as he fiddled with the knob, coming back to the same grainy game show. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z We fiddled with the equipment for a while. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I started dreaming about the man with the giant fiddle. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The whole time I’m fiddling with it, I can hear the phone ringing inside. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Elizabeth fiddles with a clump of hair that’s slipped out of her roller, grimaces at its obstinacy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z To this I assented; and he requested a boy fetch me a fiddle lain in another room. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I crouch on the living room floor with the Maritimes fiddle music going on in the background, the Toronto Star spread out underneath my elbows, studying the picture of her on the front page. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I fiddled with it and found the catch and the box opened. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Naima peeked at him from behind the curtain, fiddling with the white ribbon she kept hidden on her wrist under the long sleeve of her salwar kameez. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Then she pressed down on the gearshift and, after a moment of hunting, fiddled her way into reverse, and the darkened house faded in her headlights as the car backed out of the driveway. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “It has to be perfect,” Isa said with a soft sigh as she fiddled with the buttons on her coat. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Celia shrugged and fiddled with the thin gold bracelet on her wrist. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I fiddled with my radio until I found a report that an early tropical storm was shifting north from Cuba and might hit the keys with hurricane force winds by nightfall. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He was very tall, very thin, he had a chin like a fiddle. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Margaret sang a pretty, wordless melody in her high voice; her natural squeakiness sounded conveniently like the scratch of a fiddle. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z To stop himself thinking about it, and because Hooper didn't want him there, he was only ignoring him, while he fiddled with the puzzle, Kingshaw walked quickly across the bedroom, and out of the door. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The notes were so deep and strong it felt like we were sitting inside a giant bass fiddle. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They edged around each other as they fiddled with their suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As I fiddled with the box more, a thin piece of wood slid away. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Ahead, beyond the curve of the path, they could already hear music—flutes and fiddles—from the gathering place where celebrations were held. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “No,” Tyson said, fiddling with the strap of his duffel bag. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I fiddle with the necklace she made me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In the picture he’s standing next to a giant fiddle that’s taller than him. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The man in the gray suit fiddled with the valve knobs, checked his gauges and, when he seemed satisfied with their current position and direction, left his post to take a seat next to Zane. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z In the midst of further fiddling that afternoon, a call came through from King’s. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Dimple stood there, fiddling with the zipper on her wallet. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z When I fiddled with it, the secret photo fell out. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He shrugged, absentmindedly fiddling with his right ear. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She stopped fiddling with the headpiece and turned to him. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z She hoped that Blossom would like to sing and that Paul Jones would want to play the fiddle and Little Willie the piano. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in his bedroom, Milkman fiddled with things on his dresser. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm suddenly nervous and fiddle with the top button of my blouse. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Perhaps a week of solid fiddling with the molecular models would be necessary to make us absolutely sure we had the right answer. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Kayode said, “I’m coming,” and left to find out what was wrong, and in the new silence, Ginika fiddled with the metal bangle that encircled her wrist. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Yeah. My mom,” I say, fiddling with the ends of my scarf. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Then at night sometimes he fiddled around with clocks as an extra work. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z So it was when George and Wesley picked up their fiddle and banjo on days of carousing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I nodded, absently fiddling with a tear in the sleeve of my new plaid shirt I hadn’t noticed before taking it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z To distract myself, I fiddled with the radio dials, hoping Rufino would get back soon so I’d have someone to talk to. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Scipio frowned while he fiddled with the cord of his sack. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Rosa sighed and fiddled with her long painted nails. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Then she takes the cigarette she’s been fiddling with and, a little awkwardly, presses it into my hand, closing my fingers around it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Or was he more or less predisposed than the rest of us to lose his focus, take his eyes from the road, fiddle with his phone? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I fiddle with the end of my shirt, trying to gather the courage to ask a question. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z While I was driving there, I kept fiddling with my shirt. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Reflecting their hardly strictly professional status, the Wronglers proved thoroughly competent but unexceptional accompanists, as the fiddles shimmied over the fleet, loping blend of acoustic guitars, banjo, mandolin and bass. Jimmie Dale Gilmore takes another unusual turn 2011-06-26T14:59:00Z It also reins in the band’s recent style hopping to concentrate on folk-rock, often with a Celtic flavor; accordion and fiddle are upfront in the arrangements. Music Review: For Decemberists, a Time to Shift Gears 2011-01-25T23:06:16Z On his increasingly frequent visits, he takes his niece to his studio to fiddle on his cellos and guitars or to bop to some tune he has created. From empty nest to full house: three generations under one roof 2012-06-08T22:00:57Z The album exudes joy and masterful confidence from the start, with an aggressive fiddle and vocal twang on “What I Don’t Know,” rendering the 1988 hit shockingly tame by comparison. Dwight Yoakam lets his music speak for him 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z His widow and former collaborator Vivian Williams “plays fiddle,” as she put it, but they both served as conduits who brought folk music — from Asia to Africa to Snohomish County — to Seattle for decades. Don’t fence me in: Phil Williams, who co-founded Folklife and fought to keep it free, dies at 80 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The music is kaleidoscopic, deploying funk, electronics, hip-hop beats, jazz, chamber-music arrangements and the African fiddle riffs that inspired Sudan Archives’ name, barely keeping up with her ambitions. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Bankers conferred in whispers; some quietly fiddled with résumés. Arts & Leisure: ?Margin Call,? From J. C. Chandor, Looks at Wall Street 2011-10-12T11:01:11Z Aaron Swartzman embarks on a heroically long headstand and reminisces about his boyhood while someone fiddles with his toes. Review: 'little hunger,' 'Entwine' need to cook a little longer 2010-05-28T16:49:00Z Not because of the political tinderbox, but because we can’t stop fiddling with the matches. Son of Saul's László Nemes: 'Our civilisation is preparing for its own destruction' 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z A lute twangs, a fife pipes up, fiddles do their thing, and the revellers clap their hands. David Bowie in the Movies 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z “He’d zeroed in on something more than his own fiddle playing. He was interested in repertoire.” They Were Ahead of the Curve on Diversity in Classical Music 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z If you’d resisted plant mania before, you may now see that empty corner of your apartment as the perfect spot for a fiddle leaf fig. No Natural Light? No Problem 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z This experimentation found its natural counterpart in the flights of fancy in Mr. Potts’s fiddling. ‘Riverdance’ Was Years Ago. Colin Dunne Makes Quiet Music Now. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z But five years ago it faced the charge of fiddling while Rome burned: Zimbabwe's hyperinflation reached an estimated 6.5 sextillion per cent, supermarket shelves were bare and cholera claimed thousands of lives. Zimbabwe: Harare arts festival offers upbeat image of a country in turmoil 2013-05-09T13:41:19Z I’m not going to fiddle around with my look on other people’s advice anymore. Skin Deep: Edgier Hairstyles Turn Up on Clients 40 and Older 2012-08-28T02:54:01Z When Misty Milner ambled onstage and started fiddling with a row of guitar pedals, Mr. Herzog snickered into his microphone, “Is that your guitar tech?” Young and Restless, And Ready to Rock ?n? Roll 2011-01-06T22:24:13Z This show doesn’t run on that kind of sultriness even though Keegan, trim and radiantly healthy, fiddles alluringly with her garters and makes Maggie’s desire plain. Williams’s ‘Cat’ lands on its feet at Round House 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z One page depicts an older man sitting atop a pig, playing a fiddle as the pig sheds tears from one of its eyes. That Pig Couch on Craigslist? Not for Sale. (Also, Not a Couch.) 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Stiefel, who cultivates a wry, even dandyish attitude, occasionally fiddled with his handlebar mustache. Taking Flight: Julie Kent at Washington Ballet 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z They brought dulcimers and fiddles and later picked up the banjo from former slaves. On Virginia?s Crooked Road, Music Lights the Way 2011-05-20T19:29:44Z A dress rehearsal is the last chance to correct musical details and fiddle with staging. In Santa Fe, an Early Look at a New Opera 2010-07-23T19:50:00Z The Los Angeles Philharmonic, fiddling and blowing full out as they warmed up for the first of two London concerts, part of a European tour, communicated exuberance, optimism and a discernible but unshowy Hollywood sheen. Los Angeles Philharmonic/ Dudamel; OperaUpClose ? review 2011-01-30T00:06:50Z Even sea scallops, seared rare and so sweet, play second fiddle to small, white rice beans flecked with chervil and crisp bits of smoked pork shank. Another Ethan Stowell winner, mkt., is simple yet sumptuous 2014-01-16T21:35:45Z Cajun music, a mournful back porch music of waltzes and fiddles, is still largely the province of white musicians. Louisiana?s Zydeco Trail 2011-04-22T18:55:00Z Verdi composed the work for the Paris opera in 1867 and fiddled with it for 20 years. The Met's Don Carlo: Verdi's Masterpiece, for Everyone 2010-12-10T21:50:00Z But the show confirmed that Kelley is more than a second fiddle; his chemistry with Hubbard largely drove the show. Florida Georgia Line start the party at the fair | Concert review 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z When some fans asked if he could simply turn them off so they could listen, he fiddled with his phone between songs, happy to make the surreal experience a little less invasive. How Blake Mills became good at everything 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z For the uninitiated: bro country is all about booze, boys, and the girls they’re eyeing across the party, often featuring more guitars than fiddles. 'Bro Country' Is Still Thriving, Even If Everyone Hates It 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z He didn't start with a plan for the song; he just started fiddling and experimenting and the band developed it from there. Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image – but is it art? 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z This delightful North Carolina group explores African-American fiddle and folk traditions — including banjo, bones and quills — with verve and élan. 15 top Northwest entertainment picks, March 25-31 2012-03-21T22:59:04Z As he bit into a piece — barely edible, passably accurate — the sound of a banjo and fiddle wafted over. The Decline of the Civil War Re-enactor 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z But what a weird choice to play second fiddle to Tom Cruise’s frenzied running technique. One for the money: the great actors who slummed it in daft movies 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z She learned to become a contra dance caller and took up the banjo and fiddle she would play in the Carolina Chocolate Drops. A Solo Spotlight for a Powerful Voice 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z This tune shows how well their lineup of whistle, fiddle, guitar, double bass and uilleann pipes works together. F&M playlist 2010-08-05T22:15:00Z The tragedy of war played second fiddle to the experience of my people, most of whom were born near some bayou. Patter and Patois 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z An "anti-culture of helping oneself" had led to widespread allegations of pocketed donations, illicit payments and fiddled expenses, she said. Salzburg Easter festival hopes harmony will be restored after ?1.8m corruption scandal 2010-03-26T18:52:00Z As she sings about finding a love that turns “shades of gray” into “a new Technicolor world,” the song explodes out of her string-band foundations — banjo and fiddle — into full-tilt rock choruses, bursting with euphoria. Dolly Parton Goes Arena Rock, and 9 More New Songs 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z And yet it's these whooping, fiddle abusing "Oirish" musicians who have come to be regarded the world over as true custodians of the Celtic soul. Celebrating St Patrick's Day? Don't do it with the Pogues ... 2010-03-17T10:24:00Z Turn off the radio, and don’t fiddle with your phone; it’s important to limit distractions. Think the pandemic made you forget how to drive and park? Experts explain what’s going on. 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z For ages the epics have been told, retold, fiddled with. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z The McReynolds brothers sometimes incorporated electric and steel guitar into their performances in lieu of bluegrass’s customary banjo and fiddle. Jesse McReynolds, Lead Singer in Long-Running Bluegrass Duo, Dies at 93 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Strong, a pianist, was being managed by Mr. Gordy when, in a recording studio in Detroit, he began fiddling with a riff that was an imitation of one of his favorite artists. Barrett Strong, Whose ‘Money’ Helped Launch Motown, Dies at 81 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Other shows have fiddled with unreliable narration, often for comic effect. "Mr. Robot" and the Angry Young Man 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z College campuses were full of acoustic guitars, fiddles and banjos; record companies saw commercial potential. Review: ‘Folk City’ at the Museum of the City of New York 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The needles on the sound desk hopped to the song's distinctive bluegrass chop while fiddle player Gabe Witcher made arpeggios flutter like birds. Ready to be heard 2012-02-12T00:05:15Z Drawing can be a kind of fiddling, an orchestration of what might otherwise be a kind of itch and scratch. White Cube drawing show: The thin grey line 2010-07-20T20:31:00Z When I try to get the likeness and fiddle too much, I lose that freshness and the quality I'm trying to achieve. Top 10 Tips: Susanne du Toit 2014-04-18T23:46:49Z When mentioning his interest in using the erhu, for example, Stromae explained, “it’s a kind of Chinese fiddle that you hear a lot in ‘Kung Fu Panda.’ Stromae’s Music Delves Into Dark Topics. His Return Is Right on Time. 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z If, over the tension of those fiddles, Mr. Callahan reminds you of a country singer, it’ll be only of the best kind. Critics' Choice: New CDs by Sharon Jones, E-40 and Bill Callahan 2010-04-04T21:55:00Z Next, hear for yourself why it’s called Cape Breton fiddling at the Normaway Inn, where some of the island’s top players tune up for informal jam and dance sessions. Gas is cheap. D.C. is hot. Here’s how far $100 worth of gas will take you this summer. 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Not long before his parents split, an area aficionado handed him a box of 20 mixtapes of great fiddle performances — each dutifully labeled in Braille, with introductory listening instructions. An Unlikely Fiddler’s Dream 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Then there's a sturdy contribution from Jackie Oates, backed by fiddle and harmonium, and a charming song from Elle Osborne, backed by pedal steel. Jon Boden, the Unthanks and others: Oak Ash Thorn - review 2011-02-17T22:30:01Z “After realizing the time was wrong and fiddling with the controls for a while, I couldn’t reset the clock or set the alarm,” said Henderson, a children’s book author who lives in Denver. If hotel alarm clocks tick you off, you’re not alone 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z You seem to be fit as a fiddle. Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z "Don't fiddle with anything," his poor mum says to him in the car. TV review: My New Brain 2010-08-26T06:00:00Z He starred in the film, but his categorization meant that thousands of Academy peers roundly agreed that he had played second fiddle to a pig. Studio Two-Step Sometimes Defies Oscar Labels 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z In the original scenario the Soldier takes out his fiddle, the violin plays a jaunty tune in a section called “Airs by a Stream,” and the Devil offers his trade. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z A subtle weave of fiddles, squeezeboxes and mandolins provides the backdrop for Mitchell's parables on a brilliant, highly original album. Anais Mitchell: Young Man in America ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:41Z But as she continued her self-education and learned from musicians like the fiddle player Joe Thompson, Ms. Giddens also discovered more about the history of the contemporary banjo. Rhiannon Giddens Brings Diversity to Banjo Award 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Then he keeps retreating to a light-and-sound console, fiddling with the controls. Review: What Happens in the Theater Before and After the Dance? 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z He plays fiddle and two-row button accordion and often sings in old Cajun French, like a revivalist, but his band, Bijou Creole, switches among vintage Cajun rhythms, New Orleans second-line beats and rock. 2010-01-12T06:49:00Z Since then, it has languished in the archives, playing second fiddle to the likes of Murder On The Orient Express and The Mousetrap. Whodunnit? 2010-04-16T07:23:00Z As Paganini fiddles his way from Dickensian tavern to Covent Garden, frenzied women follow, either protesting or swooning over his believed Devil-derived talent. ‘The Devil’s Violinist,’ a Niccolò Paganini Biopic 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Thile’s mandolin has bell tones, fiddle tones and feline tones along with the familiar bluegrass gleam. Music Review: Chris Thile & Michael Daves at the Allen Room - Review 2012-01-14T00:30:25Z On “Me & My Shadow,” a track vaguely reminiscent of “Hotel California,” Deschanel’s backup vocals play second fiddle to Ward wildly jamming on his fuzzed-out Gretsch, providing proof that he is an extremely underrated guitar player. M. Ward's A Wasteland Companion: The Folk-Rocker Delivers Again 2012-04-10T10:45:04Z But they are always playing second fiddle to a hyperactive production and design. A Midsummer Night's Dream ? review 2011-02-14T21:30:02Z She’s accompanied by intricate plucked patterns on harp, guitar and bass fiddle, sustained tones from brass and electronics and quiet metallic percussion. Weezer’s Rock ’n’ Roll Nostalgia Trip, and 10 More New Songs 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z He fiddled with his tie, steepled his hands, grimaced, and glanced down at his phone. Bob Corker is free to speak his mind about Trump. If he could only make it up. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z “All Songs” still airs mostly online, but it’s no longer second fiddle to NPR’s marquee news shows. How ‘All Songs Considered’s’ Bob Boilen went from Tiny Desk to tastemaker 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Here too much of the piano accompaniment was made by Ray's intriguing fiddling with the strings inside the piano. The natural elements prove a breeze for Vicki Ray's Piano Spheres recital at REDCAT 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z “You should see the boy and shut up. I was the one who was going to be a hundred years old,” replies a woman fiddling with some electronics. 'It's a war between technology and a donkey' – how AI is shaking up Hollywood 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Vegetables and grains played second fiddle — and it's still easy to default to that mindset. The secret sauce turns 99-cent ramen into a gourmet cold noodle salad 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Mahler began sketching this symphony in 1885, when he was 25, and he fiddled with it up to 1906, five years before his death. A hero's welcome for Esa-Pekka Salonen at Disney Hall 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Ron Stewart, his bandmate, is the only person to be honored by the organization for his skills on both banjo and fiddle. Where the Hills and Hollows Are Alive With Music 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z We talk about the glut of senseless violence in many of today's shallow slugfests, characters and scripts invariably playing second fiddle to endless rounds of liberally distributed ammunition. Seven Psychopaths: 'You can't kill dogs in Hollywood' 2012-12-01T00:01:00Z The fiddle on “The Wind” is frisky and alive, and the organs at the top of the title track are warm and also slightly imperfect, as they should be. Critic’s Notebook: Zac Brown Band Releases ‘Uncaged’ 2012-07-11T22:10:41Z Hypnotic world-music grooves mesh with blues and country, as loops and programming mingle with banjo, electric guitars, synthesizers and a one-stringed West African fiddle. Robert Plant Releases ‘lullaby and The Ceaseless Roar’ 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z String-band music, which combines fiddle, banjo and sometimes other instruments, owes much to African-American traditions. Joe Thompson Dies at 93; Fiddler of String Band Legacy 2012-03-02T03:08:25Z The most affecting songs were those in which he sang, accompanying himself on the fiddle, as in Stephen Foster’s plangent “Hard Times Come Again No More.” Review: Civil War Songs of Memory and Loss, at Cooper Union 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z I compiled them all, and after fiddling with page breaks, margins, fonts and colors, printed them and turned each into a small book. Off the Registry: Homemade Wedding Gifts 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z As she fiddled with the washer settings, she told local reporters about her laundry secrets. Martha Plimpton gets dirty at Tampa family's home 2013-03-12T19:49:08Z Doc would play electric guitar, mimicking fiddle runs that his father-in-law had taught him, only in a harder, more rockabilly style. Arthel 'Doc' Watson dies 2012-05-30T02:19:00Z On the first single, "Bugs," sweet, melancholy vocals weave with lilting fiddle. Punk folk band O'Death takes a breath but still rocks 2011-03-25T00:05:17Z “But this year we have also brought a few genuine instruments from the period, carefully restored”: among them, several fiddles and flutes. ArtsBeat: Instrument Makers Take Their Turn at Boston Festival 2011-06-15T20:30:53Z The song packs multiple contrasts into less than four minutes, including a North African-flavored modal fiddle riff, two rapped sections with different flows, an interlude of choirlike harmonies, a resolute march and plenty of handclaps. Cardi B’s All-Star Team-Up, and 9 More New Songs 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z They might be working on one track during the day, and I’ll say to the producer, ‘It sounds good, give it to me now before you start fiddling with it too much.’ Delta Force: A Q&A with Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan 2013-04-04T11:00:37Z He started down South, where he played the fiddle and sang both spirituals and secular-blues songs. Listening Booth: The Alvin Brothers 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z He then darted off to introduce more people and fiddle with the video displays, which flashed images from Issue 2. Scene City: A Party for Himself 2011-02-23T23:07:00Z It got lumped in with the alt-country movement on its release in 1996, probably because of its instrumentation – sparse, acoustic, with colour and shade from the fiddles and steel guitars of country music. Hidden treasures: Scud Mountain Boys – Massachusetts 2013-01-24T10:19:10Z I have to twist right round in my chair to look at him as he talks about love and fiddles constantly with a silver pendant hung on a long chain around his neck. "I didn't set out to be 'the indie guy'" 2011-01-09T00:16:00Z It must have been a big bedroom, because “Armchair Boogie,” recorded in 1969, features fiddle, piano, guitar, bass, drums, yodels and everything from talking blues and English folk to an almost pop song. Five Mississippi Records you should hear — just bring cash 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Resting their heads on each other’s shoulders gave the girl and her boyfriend an ideal vantage point to gaze lovingly at the smartphone that each was fiddling with behind the other’s back. Will the internet eat your brain? 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Wes was once a great fiddle player, and the novel’s most sanctified scenes involve memories of practicing and playing the instrument his own father made and passed on to him. Book review: ‘Black River,’ by S.M. Hulse 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Earle, in full rasp showing the wear and tear of tobacco, screams, “I’m fixin’ to die / I reckon I’m going to hell,” over distorted guitar and fiddle. Steve Earle’s outlaw heart 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Nick realizes that Tommy has been fiddling with the past to finally land the woman he wanted. ‘Needle in a Timestack’ Review: Put a Pin in It 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Here she fiddles around with the very concept of the narrative voice by splitting the story between two storytellers. Many Sinners, Very Few Saints 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z But he brought an aura of earnest decency to the cavalry officers, cattle rustlers and assorted second fiddles he portrayed. Harry Carey Jr., Boyish Sidekick to John Wayne, Dies at 91 2013-01-02T00:53:22Z He described “Only Wanna Be With You” as an intersection of backing music he didn’t like and “the cheesiest lyrics I could possibly write,” words which he proceeded to fiddle around with. Music Review: A Wandering Talent Grows Roots in Country 2011-04-27T21:46:34Z A New York Philharmonic woodwind player fiddles with his reeds. Daniil Trifonov, New to Rachmaninoff, but a Bold and Youthful Echo 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z This is the artist who continues to fiddle while America burns, not out of negligence but out of sheer need: Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Vocals are the centerpiece; the accompanying fiddles and percussion seem to be paying their respects to it. Listen to Frøkedal 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z This is hardly a case of architects fiddling while Rome burns. 'Make New History,' the second Chicago Architecture Biennial, brings the focus back to square one 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Shires started playing the fiddle as a child, joining the Texas Playboys when she was 15. Jason Isbell’s “Running with Our Eyes Closed” and a marriage of two artists 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z The music mingled galloping punk with Celtic-tinged guitar lines — and even, briefly, a fiddle — as if transplanting the Pogues to somewhere north of the Mason-Dixon line. Music Review: Scrambling and Personalizing the Rock Timeline 2011-07-17T22:10:21Z “Once on This Island” is, after all, a sad story already, and Mr. Arden hasn’t fiddled with that. Review: ‘Once on This Island,’ Revived and Ravishing 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z There's also fedoras, fiddles and a nauseating nod to when Jack and Meg would sing together and it'd be a bit embarrassing to watch. This week's new tracks 2012-08-10T23:05:29Z The great news for “Jagged Little Pill,” and for us, is that its creative team, led by the director Diane Paulus, did more than just fiddle with a show that, though blurry, was already entertaining. Review: With ‘Jagged Little Pill,’ They Finally Fixed the Jukebox 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z On an unusually mild Monday morning in December 2015, Heather Purdin was fiddling with her ponytail, just as she always does when she is nervous. Anorexia: you don’t just grow out of it | Carrie Arnold 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z That may seem part and parcel of a supporting actor’s function, though comparatively rare is the man who has been celebrated for playing second fiddle to his onscreen wife. Best supportive wife: how female characters fare at the Oscars 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z When she helped make a documentary about Jarrell, the fiddling master, with Les Blank, she befriended and even played alongside him, as she did with most of her subjects. Alice Gerrard Didn’t Plan a Bluegrass Career. She Broke Its Glass Ceiling. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The singer took off his shirt and fiddled with his belt, and fans poured onto the stage. Woman of Morrison's: He wouldn't want Fla. pardon 2010-12-09T17:49:00Z One day, we were fiddling around with it and Chapman said: "That's a great sound." How we made: Heart of Glass 2013-04-29T15:27:00Z But just when it seems the romance might be playing second fiddle to the sport, Max and Callie emerge as a complicated, messy, believable match. All’s Well That Ends Well: Fall Romance Novels 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z There are weeping steel guitars, omnipresent drums and an occasional fiddle. Music Review: Toby Keith throws back a few more 2012-10-29T14:57:13Z The instrumental combo, conducted by the music director Emily Senturia, includes a fiddle, guitars, keyboards and drums, but the style is mainstream Broadway. Review: ‘Das Barbecü’ Is Wagner’s ‘Ring’ With a Side of Brisket 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z There are labels ready to market this music, clubs ready to book it, a reliable stable of musicians to play it and almost standardized arrangements and production techniques — fiddles, accordions, acoustic bass, brushed drums. New Music: New Albums by Trixie Whitley and Kris Kristofferson 2013-01-28T22:36:50Z “Everyone else was fiddling with chicken breasts and coriander, boning out quail and making food look like something it wasn’t,” she said. The Culinary Couple Who Built a British Empire 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z He later saved money cutting trees on his family’s farm and bought a mail-order guitar; when he lacked funds to buy additional instruments, he’d improvise—learning to play fiddle parts on his guitar, NPR reports. Doc Watson’s Legacy: What You Should Know About the Folk Legend 2012-05-30T14:57:44Z It’s hardly news that Antonio Stradivari created some swell-sounding fiddles in Cremona 300 years ago. Review | Old is new again in Stradivari Anniversary Concert at Library of Congress 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z On “Country Boy,” which features fiddling by Charlie Daniels, Mr. Lewis paints his fast-life past as the result of a pact with a mischievous devil, played here by a feeble-sounding George Jones. Playlist: Tumblr Soul, Rocker Country, Teenage Tartness 2011-03-11T15:35:16Z I didn’t want to hang around with the old men playing fiddle tunes till I was 70. Texas Monthly: Lovett and Keen, From ‘Front Porch’ to Texas Concert Partners 2013-05-25T22:28:45Z Guitarist Adam Jones and bassist Justin Chancellor spent more time staring at their assortments of stomp boxes and fiddling with gizmo knobs than they did trying to bond with the audience. Review | It’s hard to see the members of Tool when the band plays live, but it sure is thrilling to hear them 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z First fiddle Brendan O'Brien, later leader of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, recalls how he was the perfect leader, "a fine soloist with the most beautiful, individual sound and a totally natural fiddler". Raymond Cohen obituary 2011-03-22T18:23:06Z But just a few moments later, the strings flood back, violas and violins swooping up through a sudden chord that conjures folk fiddling, energy, passion, life itself. A Mighty Generation of Musicians. A Moving Final Chapter. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Providing an aural backdrop to the zaniness is traditional liturgical and religious-themed classical music, with the stage manager frantically fiddling with cassette tapes to match music to mood. ‘The Cardinals’ at the Public Theater 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Stephen Moran appeared in “Faithful Place,” the 2010 book that is still the most dazzling introduction to this author’s talents, as the smart young detective playing second fiddle to a formidable murder investigator, Frank Mackey. Tana French's 'The Secret Place' Involves a Girls' School 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z For those who don’t want to fiddle around with microtechnology when getting dinner on the table, fingers provide the best intel. Steak That Sizzles on the Stovetop 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z I have the sense that acting has been playing second fiddle to her real-world concerns. Daryl Hannah: ‘It’s scary being in solitary’ 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z I pulled over to the side of a busy airport road and started fiddling with the manual. A French Castle, Now Open to All 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z It’s the equivalent societal benefit if they only fiddled the numbers on a computer to put an extra four noughts in their account!” David Mitchell: ‘I see myself as a coward’ 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Gries fiddled with a laptop until it displayed a screen of exploding planets and played “Fanfare for the Common Man.” Dance Review: Under the Milky Way, in Suspended Reality 2011-06-06T21:37:28Z It wasn’t, she proclaimed, as she teasingly coaxed naughty meows from her fiddle. Music Review: Swing That?s Smoked and Saucy and Will Stick 2011-01-07T23:26:43Z Since splitting with Ms. Perry, he’s hardly been out at all, he insisted, though he does fiddle around on an exclusive dating app. John Mayer Knows He Messed Up. He Wants Another Chance. 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z With chordal layers or subtle counterpoint, Mr. Bartlett’s piano transformed slow vocal melodies or racing fiddle tunes into meta-Irish music, ruminations on a long legacy. Music Review: Globalfest at Webster Hall - Review 2012-01-09T23:18:48Z The furious fiddling climaxes, and like a thunderclap the title flashes on the screen: Beasts of the Southern Wild. Beasts of the Southern Wild: A Child's Garden of Wonders 2012-06-26T10:45:42Z The day before the dictionary went live, Sheidlower was still fiddling with that definition. Tracking the Vocabulary of Sci-Fi, from Aerocar to Zero-Gravity 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z "If people hire an accountant, are they trying to fiddle their tax?" he asks rhetorically. Access all areas 2011-07-15T12:25:56Z Then one day, he heard someone whistling “Red Wing,” an old fiddle tune he remembered growing up in Minnesota. National Symphony Orchestra violist plays heirloom built by grandfather 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Still, any first show in this update of the former Church Street Theater was always destined to play second fiddle. Newly renovated Keegan Theatre looks great, but first show is a bit of a bore 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z He rides horses, barters his medical skills for local produce and even fiddles with some test tubes in a vaguely scientific way. Picking fights: Steven Seagal at 60 2011-04-11T17:15:59Z Well over an hour into her set, Ms. Peacock fiddled with her drum machine, cursed at it, then successfully clicked on a backing beat, complete with canned slap bass and electric guitar. Annette Peacock Has Been Improvising Music for 7 Decades. Her Life, Too. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The man who hurt him — damaging his hands and thus robbing him of his talent for playing the fiddle — will soon be up for parole. New Books by Yasmina Reza, Michael Crummey and Megan Mayhew Bergman 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Switching between playing a replica of an 1858 minstrel banjo and a fiddle, Ms. Giddens filled the room with her soaring soprano. Rhiannon Giddens Celebrates ‘Freedom Highway’ in the Big House 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z But these man-made amenities play second fiddle to the star of the show, the surrounding mountains. Exploring Austria like a local in delightful towns unfamiliar to most American tourists 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Still, Martin has her constantly running about, moving tables, jumping on those tables to declaim in court, shouting over music, fiddling with her clothing and juggling props. Review: In ‘Prima Facie,’ Jodie Comer Makes the Case 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Sunny War asks in this minimal lament, which uses just acoustic guitar picking, fiddle and a backup vocal here and there. The Playlist: The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar Join Forces, and 15 More New Songs 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z He learned to play fiddle as a child in Yorkshire. Dave Swarbrick, British Folk Fiddler, Dies at 75 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Valent’s project looked at the connections between Moravian, English, Slovakian, Irish and Eastern European fiddling and the Baroque dance repertory. Critic?s Notebook: A Festival Brings the Obscure to the Fore, With a Global Touch 2011-06-20T21:59:21Z One is seated, playing the fiddle, while his foot works a strange metal contraption – a steel-pedal guitar attached to pulleys and levers and a wheel, that makes a steady, rattling sound, like a train. Glastonbury 2010: How Dizzee and the performers psyched up 2010-06-28T07:59:00Z I peek to see Jhamat fiddling with the control box, then turning one of the light panels off and on, then giving up. Spectrum colour yoga and meditation – like being stuck inside a traffic light 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z So I just kept fiddling with ways to tell a larger story and capture the cartoonish madness and the loss of all moral compass and sanity. Dave Eggers on Trump and the perception of truth in unscripted lies 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z “I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.” David Hammons Is Still Messing With What Art Means 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z But he ultimately proved dispensable, always played second fiddle, and before he became Rocky’s trainer, was deliberately characterised as an uppity, preening buppie. Creed adds to short list of boxing films starring a black hero 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The shadowy sound of guitars drifts through the music; Ms. Mazzoli’s chaotic refractions of hoedown fiddling occasionally explode within a landscape of jittery unease. Review: An Opera Reaches the American Dream’s Brooding Heart 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Or, “The Demise of America,” in which he fiddles while the U.S. The most famous pro-Trump artist in the U.S. has moved into his ‘Mueller’ phase. 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z It demands eyeballs, reminding its user to fiddle with a computer as often as possible. Apps you don’t have to use 2012-07-23T15:10:00Z Many people in Scotland considered the Cape Breton style — fiddling and dancing, in particular — as frozen in time. Fiddling With the Past: The Secrets of Scottish Music 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z He was born not far from there, in north-central North Carolina, and one of his earliest memories was of squirming on the floor as his father played the fiddle. Joe Thompson Dies at 93; Fiddler of String Band Legacy 2012-03-02T03:08:25Z As the event began, people in the chairs around me fiddled with their V.R. glasses, excitedly fitting their phones to the lenses and looking around. Outer Space, via Virtual Reality, in Prospect Park 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z All this fiddling and waiting means that kids often miss part of the most exciting and important baseball games of the season. Perspective | MLB playoffs games aren’t geared to young fans. They take way too long. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z As a scion of the Rankin Family, the award-winning ’90s Canadian musical group, she adopted as her instrument of choice the fiddle, which her father, John Morris Rankin, also played. Alvvays, a Dreamy Indie-Rock Band, Cranks Up the Volume 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z His father played the fiddle, which Grammer mastered along with the guitar and mandolin. Country star Billy Grammer dies age 85 2011-08-11T20:47:35Z On Britain's Got Talent they play second fiddle to the judges. Saturday Night Takeaway v The Voice: this ratings 'battle' is no contest 2013-03-21T13:10:51Z “When Summer Comes Again” is an instrumental track—just fiddle and guitar, though it sounds remarkably rich, like an entire town of players has gathered together, started circling. Song of Summer: “When Summer Comes Again,” by the Lewis Brothers 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z No surprise, then, that this should be a classy, lush production, helped by some fine accordion and fiddle work from her band. Emily Barker and the Red Clay Hero: Dear River – review 2013-07-04T21:15:00Z We knew that this kind of fiddling with our food was not quite what was expected in our household, and Mam was there to remind us. Family life 2012-10-12T23:05:19Z “Less,” for example, opens with the showy “Silas,/ say less// than silence,” and the character of the poem ends up playing second fiddle to the flash of performance. Poetry review: Christian Wiman’s ‘Once in the West’ and Mary Oliver’s ‘Blue Horses’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z But at two stops across the state Wednesday in support of Grimes, he got some good practice at playing second fiddle. On the trail in Kentucky, Bill Clinton gets practice playing second fiddle But considering the chance to fiddle with the original story and the relatively untapped field of TV werewolves, Teen Wolf feels like a missed opportunity to put the channel's original stamp on a popular genre. Teen Wolf 2011-06-03T15:35:00Z Lighter subjects – waltzes, dancefloors, drifters – come with fiddle, mandolin and expert picking. Guy Clark: My Favorite Picture of You – review 2013-07-27T23:05:10Z Deprived of his pen, Badwan spends the whole interview fiddling with a spoon. When Cat's Eyes met Ron Arad 2011-08-16T20:31:00Z Her hair pulled back in a messy-perfect ponytail, she still has that raspy Texas drawl, and she fiddles with a big gold statement ring that occasionally resides on her right index finger. Renée Zellweger is just fine, thanks: The actress reflects on her long journey to ‘Judy.’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Most people with a successful product don’t want to fiddle with the formula. What it takes to drive a cabernet from good to great 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z “The people familiar with the works found it more distracting and didn’t want to be fiddling with the devices.” Download latest app before the symphony The more you fiddle with them, the more they lose their emotional focus. Review: Karrin Allyson Meddles With the Masters, Rodgers and Hammerstein 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z His neighbors’ twin fiddles felt so right that the song begins “The Time of the Foxgloves,” like Hurley had waited all lockdown for the tune to cross his door. Michael Hurley, an Original Folk Iconoclast, Turns 80 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z The CBS Films release, opening April 23, will have to generate its boxoffice primarily from women, though: the male characters definitely play second fiddle. Jennifer Lopez solid in formulaic "Back-up Plan" 2010-04-09T00:29:00Z A few ringers add fiddle and female harmony vocals that evoke the Celtic and Scottish folk melodies in Thompson’s musical DNA. Album review: Richard Thompson, 'Electric' 2013-02-05T05:34:00Z Bela Fleck – Maura On a Bicycle, Stout and Mollasses, Way Back When A concerto for banjo, fiddle and bottleneck guitar, this summons mental images of Paul Newman careening around New Mexico. Readers recommend: hunting songs 2010-07-29T23:03:00Z So it’s no surprise that Flogging Molly takes a highly untraditional attitude toward traditional Celtic instruments such as tin whistle, mandolin, fiddle and accordion. Lollapalooza Day 3: Rain, more rain, and a Foo Fighters finale 2011-08-08T05:32:00Z On “The Hardest Part,” her debut album, she draws pedal steel, banjo, fiddle and harmonica from a robust country tool kit on songs that foreground her struggles with addiction and noxious romance. 75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z During its set, the musicians fiddled with extra equipment that wasn’t their main instrument, and every member sang, either harmony or contrasting melodic lines. At CMJ, Some Get Spotlight; Others Get Lost in the Haze 2010-10-22T23:42:00Z He carefully ensures that Sweeney still dominates with her light, fluid and often swooping fiddle work. Emma Sweeney: Pangea – review 2013-01-24T22:45:02Z On “Renewal,” his fourth album, the core of the music is an acoustic string band — with fiddle and banjo, no drums — that happily takes an occasional psychedelic detour. 66 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z After some fiddling, Trump Jr. took the juice box away from Eric and showed him how to insert the straw. WATCH: Kate McKinnon’s Kellyanne Conway cops a squat in the oval office 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z His father, Sidney Velline, was a chef who played fiddle and piano. Bobby Vee, Pop Idol Known for ‘Take Good Care of My Baby,’ Dies at 73 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z There’s a fiddle, a guitar, a bodhran, a concertina, maybe a banjo or a flute or a tin whistle. Traditional Irish Music in New York City 2012-03-15T22:06:12Z The gallery is an interactive telling of the Bristol Sessions through images and artifacts, including relevant instruments like the fiddle, banjo, harp guitar, guitar, kazoo and jaw harp, as well as film and music. In Southern Appalachia, Searching for the ‘Big Bang’ of Country Music 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z As for the sweet, sorrowful voices, backed by fiddles and piano, they seem to come, beseechingly, from half-remembered family histories you might have been told by your grandparents. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Simpson’s respect for the originals seem to prevent him from fiddling too much with their structure. Sturgill Simpson’s ‘Metamodern Sounds in Country Music’ 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z He adds that there is a “Noises Off” backstage frenzy at times as the actors manage the costume logistics of a story sweeping across time, and also maybe playing a fiddle or percussion. Sondheim’s ‘Road Show’ on the rebound at Signature 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z In their new guises — as a podcast host in Kelly's case, and whatever Carlson's fiddling with on X – they're doubt peddlers with a mainstream pedigree and the appearance of being politically connected. People say Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson's love of conspiracy theories is desperate – and dangerous 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z I kept getting that padding-it-out feeling, as if the writers were students trying to meet a ten-page term paper requirement by fiddling with the margins and the font size. The Morning After: 30 Rock at 60 Minutes 2012-02-10T14:20:37Z To quote chef and sustainability advocate Dan Barber, in just about every other cuisine, “protein plays second fiddle to grains and vegetables.” Your grain-free diet isn’t natural, good for you or good for the planet 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The immigrants took with them the rich culture that had embroidered their otherwise stark lives: bagpipe and fiddle music, step dance and song. Fiddling With the Past: The Secrets of Scottish Music 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z In a Celtic-tinged modal tune with fiddle and Conrad Lozano’s upright bass, Mr. Hidalgo sings, “The time had come for me to run away,” and adds, “Once I go there is no coming back.” Critics' Choice: CDs From Los Lobos, Seu Jorge and Almaz, and Dr. John 2010-08-01T22:33:00Z The accomplished Sphinx Virtuosi also offered Gabriela Lena Frank’s pungent, folkloric “Coqueteos” and Mark O’Connor’s “Elevations, II,” with its bursts of country fiddling folded into music of plush harmonies and intricate textures. Sphinx Virtuosi and Catalyst Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z In 1953, after completing two years of service, he returned to Memphis and resumed working as a bank clerk while playing fiddle in local country dance bands. Jim Stewart, Unlikely Entrepreneur of Soul Music, Dies at 92 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Some fiddle with cameras on tripods while others sit in camp chairs, slapping at mosquitoes and checking their cellphones for updates. | Journeys: How to See the Last Space Shuttle Launches in Florida 2010-05-14T21:12:00Z Lacey does not overplay her hand in terms of this book’s politics, but it becomes clear that men have tried to fiddle with Mary, mind, body and soul. ‘The Answers’ Runs Down the Rabbit Hole of Love 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Many opera directors are eager to take the next step and fiddle with words and music. Some Ground Rules for Revising Operas and Musicals 2012-03-11T05:41:51Z The fiddle would now be passed to a young person in the camp. How to be hopeful: Colum McCann on the broken violin that played in a refugee camp 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Sometimes they play with the intense seriousness of orchestral soloists; at others they fiddle as if at a hoedown; at still others they strum the violin and viola like guitars. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 16-22 2012-11-15T23:10:06Z The many absentees from a sparsely filled Benaroya Hall on Thursday missed some fabulous fiddling and some truly grand orchestral music, masterfully played. Review: Seattle Symphony program roams from fun to profundity 2011-02-04T19:14:04Z After the performance, the dancers took over the World of Beer, brandishing their pints and their fiddles. This troupe celebrates the earthy allure of a strange English folk dance. And beer. 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z “Some songs have words,” the Sheriff said, “but most are just fiddle tunes that everyone plays about 10 or 12 times through and then stops.” From City Folk, Toe-Tapping Country Sounds 2011-02-24T21:28:59Z The exhibit will include the keys to the Alamo and Davy Crockett’s fiddle. Top travel destinations of 2018, from Malta to Moscow to Minneopolis 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z It sounds like the setup for another "fiddling while Rome burns" joke, but we are actually a few seconds into the two-minute ad introducing the official Beijing Olympic mascot. The rise and fall of Bing Dwen Dwen, Beijing's insidious Olympics mascot 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Or does this become an expenses fiddle the first time you visit Homebase together? Sex and the City 2: What happened to good old Sex?| Victoria Coren 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z The fiddle sat in its case in an empty space not three feet from where I crouched over the tire. Beady eye 2011-03-03T11:33:18Z Some of my most comforting memories are being on my friend’s parents’ couch, nodding off to soothing fiddle music as narrator David McCullough rattles off facts about Pickett’s Charge, Burns’s camera floating over haunting photographs. Ken Burns's The Civil War: America's greatest documentary rides again 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z But he's usually portrayed as a purveyor of whimsy, a kind of maniacal trickster who plays second fiddle to the more prominent villains of Gotham City. Rating the Batman’s Riddler: Did Paul Dano surpass what’s been done? 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Blodgett fiddled with the formula, tweaked the colors and settled on four hues. Move Over, Est?e Lauder 2011-06-10T20:07:05Z “Robert went with a fiddle up to the Matterhorn, and at the top of the Matterhorn he played a Bach sonata.” Luise Rainer, ’30s Star Who Won Back-to-Back Oscars, Dies at 104 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z A celebration of the holiday as it might have been observed at the start of the Civil War, with a soldier’s muster and fiddle music; bring your own picnic lunch. Spare Times for June 28-July 4 2013-06-27T22:14:14Z Gabe Witcher, fiddle player with the Punch Brothers, thought the same when Mr. Burnett started bringing him and his colleagues into sessions. For T Bone Burnett, a Burst of Creativity at 70 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z “There are too few jobs here,” he said, “and no mobile connection,” he added, while fiddling in vain with his phone. A Journey to Kashmir’s Gurez Valley 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z “Most men don’t want to play second fiddle but he was the opposite. He didn’t talk about what he was doing only about what she was doing.” She Proposed That He Be Her Caddie. They’ve Worked to Avoid the Rough. 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Since Borodin's poignant and stately notturno was still playing in his mind, and since he did not wish to repeat the farewell ceremony, he stood by the car while the chauffeur fiddled with the engine. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z The analogy that comes to mind is the emperor Nero playing the fiddle while his city, Rome, burned down! From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z Yet the meat plays second fiddle to its terrific accessory: potatoes that are baked, cooled, skinned, broken up, fried to a gentle crisp and seasoned with Old Bay. Barrel & Crow review: At last, quality comes to Bethesda 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z I fiddled with the radio, looking for some country music, and hit on a station that mixed Faron Young, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, and other classics with public service announcements. Almost heaven, West Virginia: Driving country roads in search of America today 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z As he is telling me this story he is fiddling with something on the arm of the sofa he is sitting on. American Apparel founder Dov Charney: ‘Sleeping with people you work with is unavoidable’ 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z First seen here fiddling his expenses in an attempt to make up for a ban on overtime, Frost is as stroppy, sarcastic and unorthodox as ever. Laura Wilson's crime fiction reviews 2012-06-15T21:55:07Z Last year, national fiddle champion Aarun Carter, from Colorado, and Ozarks guitarist Jonathan Trawick showed up for a stay at Deep End. Old-time music at a ranch? It's an American idyll 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z As they try on fancy clothes and fiddle with wide-screen televisions and top-of-the-line sound equipment, the young rebels prove themselves to be perfect citizens of the system they supposedly hate. Review: Bored, Beautiful Terrorists With a Taste for Luxury Brands 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z These goals are inherently contradictory, and the Fed has only a limited number of dials it can fiddle with to achieve the best possible combined result. Ben Bernanke’s ‘The Courage to Act’ 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z When Lewis and Clark arrived here on April 26, 1805, Lewis recorded that the Corps was “much pleased at having arrived at this long wished-for spot,” breaking out fiddles and bottles. In North Dakota, Boom, Bust and Oil 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z He not only played but also perfected the instrument, designing his own signature model, the Emmons Guitar, and continuing to fiddle with the mechanisms through his Emmons Guitar Company. Buddy Emmons, Virtuoso of the Steel Guitar, Dies at 78 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z The one-way trip should have taken just over three hours, but I lost a little time sitting in the parking garage, fiddling with the touch-screen device. With Hertz, road-trippers can get a charge out of Tesla rentals 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z The track is grounded in country, complete with fiddle fills, but it’s also pointed toward a wide pop audience. Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’ Outtake, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Against an Appalachian tune, all fiddle and conga drums, tabla and Mellotron, Jagger sings us an industrial scene of standing in the rain, waiting for a girl outside the factory where she works. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-05-06T21:30:00Z They learned at the feet of the masters, soaking up tunes at the house of old-time fiddle legend Tommy Jarrell. Carolinian banjo man Riley Baugus tops folk fest 2011-12-08T21:43:03Z They trembled and bumbled as one, fiddling with a piece of paper that might have been the list of people they wanted to thank. Review | Oscar keeps it shorter without a host, but something still needs to done about those speeches 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Sadly, she is not even playing second fiddle. Houdini & Doyle: new show can't free itself from shackles of old formula 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z “It didn’t play me like a fiddle. It slammed on my insides like a grand piano.” Hereditary trailer: will this be the year's scariest movie? 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z A violin could sound more like a flute than ever; a bass fiddle, like a bass drum. A different way to experience John Adams' music: Sitting onstage, next to the musicians 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z “It’s inherent in our fiddle music as well.” Fiddling With the Past: The Secrets of Scottish Music 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z And they asked me, Would I learn Irish fiddle? Jeremy Irons Is Transported by Renzo Piano and a Dog Named Smudge 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z It’s normal, Teddy said, to spend 10 minutes fiddling with add-on ingredients to get it exactly right. Street food isn’t as scary on a guided food tour in Hanoi 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z As Holt says, we tend to think of the start of the universe by analogy with a concert, where we sit fiddling with our programs until the music begins. ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-03T22:40:08Z The director was careful about fiddling with the verse, noting, “You don’t want to sing the song without the melody.” Denzel Washington, Man on Fire 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z There are stories of violence against women; of old men fiddling with young men in movie theaters. A Late-Night Radio Drama, With Hints of the Internet to Come 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Oh, Venus’s stuff is going to be fabulous,” Kaya says as she fiddles with the zipper while Hinyard riffles through the clothes rack and examines a satin shirt. The Buy Nothing movement: Give up your stuff and pick up some friends 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Read more "In this third album, they again transmute traditional elements – drones, reels, highland melodies – into elegant chamber folk whose orchestral richness far exceeds the normal limits of fiddle, accordion and guitar." Scottish Album of the Year Award – who should win? 2013-06-19T16:51:46Z To LeDuff, the Detroit firefighter "is the man holding Nero's fiddle." Review: `Autopsy' takes grim look at Detroit 2013-02-11T14:04:09Z While James fiddles with straps and binoculars and observes the fluffy CGI clouds, Amelia rouges her cheeks and feistily responds to James’ witticisms. Amazon’s gorgeous hot-air balloon movie “The Aeronauts” has lofty goals but is afraid of heights 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The immensely complicated political legacy of the period — ravaged by conflicts between left and right-wing factions and the emergence of guerrilla movements — plays second fiddle to the filial tribute. ‘Memories of My Father’ Review: Death of a Patriarch 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z He and Donnellan, known for his Electric Slugger fiddle made out of a baseball bat, will do what Van Hoose does all season: move from baseball to classical music and back. At Nationals Park in Washington, Van Hoose hits all the right notes 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z SMP provides tutoring, performance opportunities and help in making the transition to Washington Middle School’s bands, orchestras, fiddle club and choir. Kids in need get gift of music 2013-09-09T05:01:08Z I mean, what’s rock and who cares, but I’m talking about materials: electric guitars and digital distortion and drums, rather than the untreated sounds of mandolin, fiddle, banjo, acoustic guitar and double bass. Music Review: Chris Thile and His Bluegrass Quintet at Caramoor 2010-07-05T21:56:00Z In “The Moaning Bench,” a boxer must fight the devil’s gatekeeper for his soul, like a fiddle player at the Georgia crossroads. A Set of Brilliant Miniatures by the Author of ‘The Good Lord Bird’ 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z So it has enthusiastically embraced flotillas of young entrepreneurs who clump in hip downtown spaces, fiddling with digital start-up plans, developing software and pulling in tens of millions of dollars in seed money. Orlando isn’t what you think it is 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z But the actress had too many tricks up her sleeve: Besides singing, dancing and acting, she has played the violin since age 3 and the production was in desperate need of a fiddle player. 'Once' star Elizabeth A. Davis celebrates Tony nod 2012-05-10T11:18:10Z What drove his anxiety about the list and his fiddling with it the way he did? ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Author Rebecca Stott on 'Darwin's Ghosts' 2012-08-08T16:44:34Z Outside, he fiddles with the window of the Lamborghini and high-fives a few of the teenage extras, before bounding away to the set. Bieber fever 2010-04-03T23:05:00Z There were plaintive ballads sung in the traditional sean-nós style; there were flutes and fiddles; and, naturally, there was plenty of percussive stomping and intricate footwork. Spoiled by Beauty and Deals on the Irish Coast 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z “To me the old-time fiddling, the old-time ballads — there never was anything prettier and there never will be,” he said. Doc Watson, Folk Musician, Dies at 89 2012-05-30T00:33:31Z "I want to assimilate before we get there," she said, tucking the folds of her sari around her knees, reaching up to fiddle with the air conditioner and the reading light. Maggie Robb: Automatic Upgrade 2011-07-22T22:02:06Z The Aerolite employee explained how thieves won’t typically waste time fiddling with the lock but will simply cut the zipper. Suitcase GPS? Scented bags? Collapsible sunglasses? The latest travel gadgets. 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z It’s as if directors were inside our sleeping brains, fiddling with the machinery like clockmaker-elves, tapping our unconscious to mine images that beguile, terrify and astound us. Hugo: Scorsese's Magnificent Dream Machine 2011-11-22T20:39:54Z Its 11 folk-rock tunes feature lots of fiddle, guitar and percussion as they extol independence, equality and sisterly solidarity. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z But the songs — yearning ballads and square-dance romps rich with fiddle, piano and banjo, beautifully played by a nine-person band — provide a buoyancy that keeps the momentum from stalling. ‘Bright Star’ Is Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s New Show 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z He is a virtuoso of traditional Cape Breton fiddling, which has thrived on this isolated land since it arrived with Gaelic-speaking Scottish Highlanders two centuries ago. Fiddling With the Past: The Secrets of Scottish Music 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, staff members fiddled with the heaters that were keeping the dinner tent warm on that cool November night. A Certain Metaphysical Attraction 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z I was listening to ‘Cruel Sister’ and admiring her use of the open strings of the fiddle, which give the piece a kind of folk feeling. Post-Minimalism and Folk Ballads Fuel a Composer 2011-02-01T22:00:25Z I'm not claiming our schools are perfect, though I do suggest that investment is more important than constantly fiddling with the curriculum. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z His father, a musician in Vancouver specializing in Cape Breton style fiddle, retired as an insurance salesman there. Who Could Have Predicted It? (Well, Actually Two Different Psychics) 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z For a couple of weeks, they fiddled around and eventually, on Christmas night, wrote a verse for a new song. How Bailey Zimmerman Charmed Nashville 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z On the slow-burning, bluesy "Slow Boat," he dived into the gravel pit, growling to the creak of the fiddle and the tattoo of the drums. Jeff Bridges plays himself at Chateau Ste. Michelle 2011-08-29T19:34:04Z He wears a black hoodie and fiddles with its white strings as he talks. ‘You think: are we really doing this?’: how TV’s strangest shows get made 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Ms. Muñoz gave the fiddle leaf a thorough watering and the office manager a gentle reminder that plants need sunlight. You Can Pay People to Style Your Houseplants 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z This led to his taking up the bass fiddle. Buddy Catlett, renowned Seattle jazz bassist, dies 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z That is not to imply we spend our days either fiddling with Bunsen burners and test tubes or composing odes and flinging gobs of paint at inanimate objects. Side by Side With Sondheim: Alan Cumming Reviews a New Book About ‘Sunday in the Park’ 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Kitty Jay, delivered with just fiddle and stomping foot, is a thrilling justification of his 2005 Mercury nomination. Seth Lakeman 2010-07-11T20:46:00Z We’re too busy to fiddle with construction paper and doilies, too sophisticated to scrawl out honeyed doggerel for each other. Review | Email and texting are terrible. There’s an easy solution: Write more letters by hand. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z “Right away, Buddy starts fiddling around with it,” Mr. Allison told the Lansing newspaper. Jerry Allison, Who Played Drums With Buddy Holly, Dies at 82 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z It always seemed that whatever she was hosting, whomever she was interviewing played second fiddle to her wide smile, scruffy laugh and the first-person pronouns that she seemed to wedge into everything. Katie Couric: 'If I wasn't famous, I would go on Match.com' 2012-08-08T23:21:04Z As Cleveland’s fiddle prowess ballooned, the rest of his life deflated. An Unlikely Fiddler’s Dream 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z While consumers have always fiddled with products, the Web makes it so much easier for people with similar interests to come together and form online communities like DIYbookscanner. Innovation Far Removed From the Lab 2011-02-10T00:12:30Z You fiddle listlessly with the dial until gravel finally churns under the tires of the Ford and your father turns down the narrow dirt road to the Climbers’ Ranch. Facing death on the mountain: What my father taught me on his last great climb 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z For instance, when I was very young, I used to love to fiddle with people’s ears. 'He didn't even pretend to let us win'… Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Personally, I want to hear country music with a steel guitar and a fiddle; I want to hear Stardust with strings. Willie Nelson: 'If we made marijuana legal, we'd save a whole lotta money and lives' 2012-05-17T14:45:01Z Unfortunately everyone plays second fiddle to Clive Owen’s distracting moustache. Every Jason Statham film - ranked! 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z McCurdy Pavilion: I have often thought, looking out from this cavernous, repurposed balloon hangar to the evergreen trees beyond while listening to jazz, blues or fiddle music, that all is right with the world. 5 Seattle favorites: Where to hear the music 2014-05-11T04:00:00Z She pulled out old pictures and fiddled endlessly with her abundant yellow hair extensions. Reinventing Betsey Johnson 2012-12-19T23:32:46Z It felt as if the players were fiddling with a radio dial in search of a frequency on which to broadcast the music clearly. Martin Frost at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Watson demonstrates how to turn the traditional fiddle tune “Black Mountain Rag” into a dizzying, masterful work on the guitar. Doc Watson’s Legacy: What You Should Know About the Folk Legend 2012-05-30T14:57:44Z They do more than play the old fiddle music that blends Celtic strings, Dixieland jazz, African American blues, German polka, and Mexican mariachi. 40 Things I Love About Texas 2010-06-02T17:24:00Z “He was fiddling with the television remote and he told me, ‘Tell her hello, if you get there in time.’ Review | ‘French Exit’ gives a witty look at a rarefied world 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Joined by the bluegrass singer and multi-instrumentalist Bruce Molsky, the quartet performed songs, hymns and fiddle tunes from its new CD “1865,” weaving them into a memorial wreath that was fresh, humble and deeply poignant. Review: Civil War Songs of Memory and Loss, at Cooper Union 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z There isn’t much to look at along either route, and as my phone’s connection drops out, I find myself fiddling with the radio. Finding My Florida 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z A powerful set, driven on by her own fiddle, piano and four-piece acoustic band. Bella Hardy: Battleplan – review 2013-04-18T20:20:01Z The Spirt of the West Cowboy Gathering features rodeo events, a Rodeo Cowboy Reunion, Western Gear and Art Show, fiddle contest, performances and kids' activities, Thursday-Feb. 17 of the week's top entertainment events 2012-02-08T22:58:11Z Yeah, I’ll just go in the other room and fiddle around on my guitar. Delta Force: A Q&A with Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan 2013-04-04T11:00:37Z Phoebe-birds called sadly from the woods down by the creek … Softly Pa's fiddle sang in the starlight … The large, bright stars hung down from the sky. The Little House books as feminist classics 2012-12-28T22:55:10Z Out there in space, fiddling with his gizmos and worrying his spuds, is Matt Damon. The Martian: Matt Damon gets spaced out in Ridley Scott's isolation thriller 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z The result emphasizes the rustic edges of Seger's sound, with lots of fiddle, banjo and mandolin. Bob Seger turns a page with a Nashville sound and liberal lyrics 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z This is string-band music in the digital era, with riffs like loops and allusions to fiddle tunes, dance music and deep gospel. The Playlist: Jay Z Sips Lemonade and Adele Divides and Conquers 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z If actual history plays second fiddle to that — by the way, there’s a terrific orchestra of 17 players, just two shy of the plush original — current history steps in as a pretty good substitute. Review: A Pageant of Love and Antisemitism, in ‘Parade’ 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Likening his loyalty to Chuck to the musicians on the Titanic, Oliver says: “I offered you a lifeboat. You picked up a violin. Happy fiddling, Bryan.” ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap: More Wendy, Please 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Cook, 67, who plays fiddle and guitar, said he was diagnosed four years ago with the disease, which robs sufferers of balance and causes tremors. Alabama country music star Jeff Cook suffering from Parkinson's 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Playing second fiddle to Beyoncé isn’t a bad gig, even when the actual instrument is bass guitar. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Other uses of the bow distinguish Cape Breton fiddling from Irish and other styles. Fiddling With the Past: The Secrets of Scottish Music 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Is it a sound: an acoustic guitar, a pedal steel, a fiddle, a high lonesome croon? Arts & Leisure: Brad Paisley?s Country Underground 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z The show—which captures Maid of Honorzillas in action—will always play second fiddle to the original series. TV Tonight: Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids 2012-04-20T10:30:05Z Landless had neither the inclination nor the permission to fiddle with anything other than the orchestrations, so the story and characters will be perfectly recognizable to buffs. Sondheim goes ‘crunch’ in prog-metal ‘Sweeney Todd’ 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z It's enough to transport fiddle fanciers to an extended stay in musical Nirvana. Jascha Heifetz's vast recorded legacy lives on 2011-06-08T13:53:00Z This year, however, even the commercials were forced to play second fiddle, with Beyoncé’s majestic entry into the #BlackLivesMatter movement just that bit more electrifying than attempts to get you to buy Doritos. The Anti-Beyoncé Protest Rally – who's racist now? 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z On the seemingly insurmountable walk back to my car, I fiddle with the zippers of my flight suit, running their teeth through my fingers like rosary beads. Space tourism will surely be a blast, but can it also improve life on Earth? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z But when played by the strange combination of an Arabic fiddle, saxophone, frame drums, zithers, cello and harpsichord, Bach’s melody sounds decidedly Turkish. Music Review: Ensemble Sarband in White Light Festival - Review 2011-11-21T23:11:33Z Improvising, in Truest Sense of the Word The most important member of Rhonda Vincent’s touring troupe on Thursday night turned out not to be her fiddle player or her bassist but her bus driver. Music Review: Improvising, in Truest Sense of the Word 2010-09-24T21:49:00Z The group plays fiddle and banjo music from the piedmont region of the Carolinas. Spoleto enters closing weekend with strong sales 2010-06-11T14:26:00Z To open the second half of the program, Mr. Crawford turned over a reduced orchestra to the violinist Monica Huggett, who led Mozart’s Concerto No. 4 from the fiddle. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall 2012-04-10T21:55:31Z Impressed by his natural talent, Beryl had steered him away from the guitar to the fiddle. Beryl Marriott obituary 2010-08-16T17:27:00Z Rolling Stones - Country Honk – Some big fiddling going on and not just in Jagger's pants. Readers recommend: Songs about concerts 2010-05-20T23:01:00Z At one point, after fiddling on his phone, he just folded his hands, staring blankly. Why LeBron James Is Failing in the Finals 2011-06-10T11:00:00Z He grew up fiddling with his brother's guitar as much as he dabbled in acting, but followed his father Lloyd's path to Hollywood. Jeff Bridges sings 'Crazy Heart' songs at Ste. Michelle 2011-08-25T21:11:57Z Occasionally the work’s modernist tropes, which peak with the use of a loudspeaker, are pierced by stylistic interjections: a fiddling folk song, Eastern idioms. Online, Simon Rattle Gives a Preview of His Future in Munich 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Purists may raise an eyebrow to that sort of fiddling. Simple, Warming and So Loved 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z They play the instruments of home musicians: guitar, fiddle, mandolin, ukulele, melodica, accordion, piano, beat box and so on. At SCR, the musical 'Once' raises its hopeful voice 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Rep. Donna F. Edwards is stooped in a corner fiddling with the sound system. Donna Edwards wants women to follow her into politics, where she’s happy to lead Colbert may have been doing late night television for two decades, but it seems he’ll always play second fiddle to Stewart. The Daily Show reunion: Stephen Colbert plays second fiddle to Jon Stewart 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Amid breakneck banjo and fiddle romps such as Mississippi Saturday Night are less expected, reflective pieces such as Ain't It Enough, with its utopian sentiment that "there's a place for us all here". Old Crow Medicine Show: Carry Me Back – review 2012-11-18T00:05:56Z In other instances throughout, she fiddles with her phone while others are yakking away and is always just a bit on the outskirts. Jenna Lyons brings introvert representation to "The Real Housewives of New York City" 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z If you like Hayes and his longtime musical partner guitarist Dennis Cahill, who move between wild bursts of frantic fiddling and slower moments of lyrical lightness, there’ll be plenty of that, too. No Paddywhackery at Martin Hayes show, just real Celtic 2013-03-08T18:10:47Z The band joins her with somber vocal harmonies, tolling drone tones, clanking percussion and baleful fiddle slides, a crescendo of dread. Karol G and Romeo Santos’s Sensual Goodbye, and 10 More New Songs 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z But unlike his previous work, where he produced songs that marked him as someone willing to fiddle with genre pieties, he mostly remains tame. Willie Nelson, Mali Music and Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z But no need to rub his nose in the fact that he’s playing second fiddle to your old pal. Social Q’s: A Question of Sexuality 2013-01-31T21:09:40Z Soon, Taylor bent down to fiddle with his guitar pedals for a free-form noise jam, not unlike the Dead’s “Drums/Space” segment during concerts. Hiss Golden Messenger shares his anxieties and shows his gratitude 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Cleveland, which his band Flamekeeper, won instrumental recorded performance of the year for "Goin' Up Dry Branch" and won Cleveland won his sixth straight fiddle player of the year award and ninth overall. Steve Martin gets bluegrass award, injects comedy 2011-09-30T11:31:04Z Lagasse included many of De Costa's recipes in his cookbooks, although she was never afraid to scold him for fiddling with her ingredients. Woman who taught Emeril how to cook dies at age 79 2011-09-27T16:28:13Z They fiddled with their phones or flipped awkwardly through the fashion magazines piled on end tables. Perspective | It can be awkward for men to speak out on abortion rights. But we need them to try. 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z It is restless music, by musicians so preternaturally talented they get bored easily with fiddle tunes. ArtsBeat: Punch Brothers Talk About Music, the Lower East Side and Greg Maddux 2012-04-25T16:59:04Z Who knew this earnest, folksy Seattle band — arguably less "head" than "heart" — with the clanking piano and celestial fiddle and vocal harmonies would catch fire nationally? 16 top entertainment picks for the week of Sept. 9-15, 2012 2012-09-05T22:44:04Z Campbell, 75, fiddled a few seconds longer while standing backstage Friday night at the IP Casino and finally found a perfect D chord. Campbell shines in 1st show since Alzheimer's news 2011-07-18T10:26:20Z Last night they played the score attentively, almost shyly, keeping strict time during the restless Scotch snaps, and quiet sobriety through the plaintive fiddle lament and haunting, shifting drones. Hebrides Ensemble – review 2012-06-15T12:58:16Z “You’re a fool for not believing I’m good at leaving,” Monroe sings as a fiddle yawns in the background. Ashley Monroe, rising above the chatter of country music 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Their daughter, Eve, 10, was fiddling with a game app called the Love Calculator on an iPod Touch. Quality Time, Redefined 2011-04-30T04:37:02Z As Marzullo fiddles with the cockroach, he notices a family of three sitting at the table next to us. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z As with Mei's initial meeting with Li, the complexities of adoption and the deeply personal impact of the one-child policy plays second fiddle to a more familiar tale of manipulated "justice." 'One Child' examines injustice at expense of personal pain 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Instead he favors arrangements with piano, upright bass and a bit of a rural, country flavor provided by fiddles and pedal-steel guitar. Jack White front and center on 'Blunderbuss' ✭✭✭ 1/2 2012-04-23T14:17:00Z They share the beat, tapping it on the bodhran, and slip in counterpoint from fiddle or Celtic harp. Critics? Choice: New Music From Gorillaz, the Chieftains and Fenn O?Berg 2010-03-14T21:41:00Z So, engineers fiddled with technology from the start of live broadcasts. Wearing a Wire at the Opera, Secretly, of Course 2013-06-28T19:47:55Z Daniels, the fiddle player behind the hit song “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” was honored for his multi-genre style blending Southern rock, bluegrass, gospel and country music. Randy Travis stuns crowd, sings at Hall of Fame induction 3 years after stroke 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z In his free time now, he still loves to fiddle around in the kitchen and is trying to perfect eggplant Parmesan. Cal Ripken is moving on, literally and figuratively 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Bosco Mann’s production treats the horns, backing vocals, and acoustic rock instruments like a small orchestra, fiddling with every tone so that each stands out behind Jones’ powerful voice. Sharon Jones Returns from Cancer Treatment with Triumphant New Album 2014-01-15T16:56:19Z When Ms. Maguire completed the studio, she inaugurated it by gathering musicians to record an album’s worth of bluegrass fiddle tunes, still unreleased. Two Dixie Chicks Form Court Yard Hounds 2010-04-24T02:45:00Z Pescadero is Spanish for fishmonger — the coast is dotted with fishermen fiddling with poles planted in the sand. A Lighthouse to Call Your Own 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z They've fiddled with the chronology: I found the second episode confusing. A medieval historian's view on The White Queen 2013-06-24T17:36:50Z “So any substance that fiddles with our ability to be with what’s really happening would not be helpful in a yoga practice.” Marijuana and Yoga Pairing Up in Classes 2012-12-05T17:57:21Z Then, like the well-cooked meal, there was nothing to fiddle with, just to taste and enjoy. Peter Brook on A Midsummer Night's Dream: a cook and a concept 2013-04-15T14:28:03Z Turtle Island will also play an old Irish reel called “Christmas Eve,” and a Hindu spiritual, “Vathapi,” a 19th-century composition Balakrishnan says was inspired by the sound of Irish fiddle music. Turtle Island Quartet brings its eclectic tastes and passion for discovery to Seattle 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Bandersnatch was a novelty, a fun little romp that you could fiddle about with for an hour between Christmas and the new year and then forget about it. Too many choices: should Netflix make more interactive stories? 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z I was pushing 75 when he began fiddling with my iPhone. A Rookie’s Road Trip Through Montana, Wyoming and Idaho 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Everyone works fiddles ... they don't quite declare this, they tell a little lie about that. A Small Family Business 2010-05-12T21:00:00Z “My dad wasn’t in the business, but he played fiddle,” Mr. Rogers recalled in a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone. Kenny Rogers, Who Brought Country Music to a Pop Audience, Dies at 81 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z After the war, fiddling became less and less a part of his life. Joe Thompson Dies at 93; Fiddler of String Band Legacy 2012-03-02T03:08:25Z “You Got Me Singing” arrives with folky acoustic guitar and fiddle, and there’s almost a smile in Mr. Cohen’s voice as he shrugs and perseveres. Albums by Leonard Cohen, Otis Brown III and Lee Ann Womack 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Obama said country music tied together many threads of the nation's immigrant heritage, from the Irish fiddle, the German dulcimer, the Italian mandolin, the Spanish guitar and the West African banjo. Obama pays tribute to country music 2011-11-22T02:31:14Z He and Ms. Slezak, 30, who grew up in the old-time and bluegrass fiddle scene around Charlottesville, N.C., met in the Boston folk music circuit and formed the band five years ago. A Word With: David Wax and Suz Slezak: David Wax and Suz Slezak on Their Music’s Mexican Influence 2012-09-04T22:13:59Z One night James and his fiddle fall in with other musicians at a barn dance and draw the attention of a young local woman, though he seems too sluggish to respond. Movie Review: ‘Pilgrim Song,’ Directed by Martha Stephens 2013-05-10T01:28:35Z Two bored salesfolk fiddle with their phones in the back, the entire tableau resembling a lost work by Samuel Beckett. How do we feel about the mall these days? 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Daniels, destined to play second fiddle in the first, feels like he's moved to third in "To." 'Dumb and Dumber To' just a chip off the older blockheads 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z SAT The Onlies fiddle tunes, children must be accompanied by adult, 11 a.m. Community calendar 2011-09-28T21:16:04Z Themes of displacement, or ritual or spiritual search, play second fiddle to the force of the photography, around which swirl experimental jams, a folk tale told in voice-over and talismanic bits of dialogue. Movie Review : ‘Kuichisan’: Experimental Jams and Talismanic Dialogue 2013-06-20T22:47:36Z For many new observers, trimming a long table plays second fiddle to living the Nguzo Saba, or seven principles of Kwanzaa. Five Kwanzaa Celebrations Around the Country 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Even in her own music book, Nannerl sighs, she plays second fiddle. | 'Mozart?s Sister': The Other Child in Papa Mozart?s Musical Troupe 2011-08-18T23:26:03Z The precision is impressive as Wilson pivots between characters and fiddles with props. Surely, he jests: Matthew R. Wilson’s classic clowning in ‘One-Man Commedia Epic’ 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z It sounded awful, but he fiddled around with it until . Is Tituss Burgess like his meme-able ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ character? Well, yes and no. 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Besides Mr. Cook, who occasionally played piano as well as fiddle and guitar, Mr. Gentry was the group’s bassist, while Mr. Owen played rhythm guitar and Mark Herndon played drums. Jeff Cook, a Founder of the Country Band Alabama, Dies at 73 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z “The Monogram Murders” is set in 1929, and the sickly, aged Poirot depicted in Christie’s “Curtain” is a little younger and fit as a fiddle. ‘Monogram Murders’: Thanks to Sophie Hannah, no ‘Curtain’ for Poirot after all Cleveland won fiddle player of the year for the eighth time, tying Stuart Duncan's record, and the fifth time in a row. Dailey & Vincent win entertainer of the year 2010-10-01T03:44:00Z Servers may shoot their cuffs before fiddling with some small detail of the table setting, a fussiness that is not in keeping with the graceful, relaxed tone of the cooking. At Gem, a Teen Wonder Plays in the Big Leagues 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Small wonder Mr. Prince is such a would-be showman: He’s content to fiddle — or let his beloved Jascha Heifetz do so — while those around him implode. Theater Review: Clifford Odets's Dentist, Anything but Painless 2011-04-05T13:30:07Z Forever second fiddle to her older sister, we bet Jan developed a thick skin and a sense of humor. Vince Vaughn as Mike Brady—Who Could Play the Rest of the Bunch? 2012-08-01T15:59:15Z After fiddling unsuccessfully with every setting possible, we decided to proceed one eye blind, as it were. Critic’s Notebook: Matching Chain Saws, and Wits, With TV Reality Show Carvers 2012-11-28T23:43:54Z “It had the perfect stretchiness that she could play with,” Ms. Parkinson said, referring to the fiddling and finger-worrying that Ms. Seyfried performs throughout the series, her jaw flexed and eyes held wide. Becoming Elizabeth Holmes 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z The Dropkick Murphys, say, do this kind of fiddle thing and you’re somehow there, covered in Guinness in a crowded pub on a Saturday night. Lindsey Stirling’s Music Combines Classical and Dance 2014-05-02T22:32:38Z The Faeries are a contemporary instrumental dance band who match rapid-fire bagpipe, fiddle and whistle solos with guitar, keyboards and electronica, occasional brass, and an impressively confident rhythm section. Peatbog Faeries: Dust ? review 2011-08-04T21:31:01Z After racing through “All Aboard,” a quicksilver original with a locomotive theme, they eased into an old blues standard, “Trouble in Mind,” with three fiddles blending in sweet, buttery harmony. The Time Jumpers, Country Swing Standard Bearers, Thrive in Nashville 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Over time, designers refined the reinforced heel and fiddled with its angle. Shoe Obsession for the Ages: Prince’s Killer Collection of Custom Heels, Now on View 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z Hers is loose and genial: besides the standard old-time lineup, which she described as “banjo, guitar, fiddle, bass, feet!,” she’s seen “clarinet, saxophone, Baskin Robbins spoons and interpretive singing” worked into the scrum. From City Folk, Toe-Tapping Country Sounds 2011-02-24T21:28:59Z Related: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation review: Tom Cruise just won't let this franchise self-destruct What’s intriguing about both movies is that they largely feature Cruise playing second fiddle to his female co-star. All hail Tom Cruise and the era of the equal opportunity action movie 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Langhorne’s inventive score braids sitar, banjo, and fiddle into something as lonesome and foreboding as the Southwest itself. Farewell to the Tambourine Man 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z O'Brien is just one of several guests who add layers to the sound not typically heard in popular music, including whistle, flute, pedal steel, harmonica, fiddle and accordion. Review: Knopfler creates subtly beautiful tunes 2012-09-10T14:51:08Z They are a group of amateurs centered around a guy named Brian Turner, a computer consultant who spends his weekends fiddling with power beaming. ArtsBeat: Amateur Hour: Jack Hitt Talks About an American Tradition 2012-05-16T19:53:00Z Packed floor to ceiling with fiddles, guitars, amps and all manner of music — as well as a candy-shop section stocked with fudge — Barr’s hosts music sessions, curious tourists and lesson seekers. On Virginia?s Crooked Road, Music Lights the Way 2011-05-20T19:29:44Z There are people reading newspapers or fiddling with electric lights. Review: A Precious Harvest in ‘The Pearl Fishers’ at the Met 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z "I guess I'll just keep on fiddling until I die or get married, whichever comes first," she says in The Tender Trap. Celeste Holm obituary 2012-07-15T19:04:12Z Whether backed by Chip Taylor Smith's fiddle or accompanied only by bones percussion, his approach is always no-nonsense, rhythmic and gutsy. Spider John Koerner: What's Left of Spider John – review 2013-04-25T21:45:01Z We’re just fiddling now, figuring out a few things here and there so it’s pretty much what it is. Terry Gilliam and the Time He Shared a Crew With ‘Star Wars’ 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z In front of us, a long-haired technician fiddled away, and the dome shone. From Russia With Metaphors 2014-05-07T04:00:00Z Grinning like a possum, fiddle bow flying, he was oblivious that the barn was empty. Where the Hills and Hollows Are Alive With Music 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z "I had friends who would travel to West and North Africa, and they'd bring me fiddle music," Carter says. Regina Carter takes her jazz violin on a jaunt around the world 2010-05-20T20:12:00Z The audience was completely hushed, awaiting each fiddle line or banjo lick, each unexpected harmonic turn, each precise swell of three-part harmony. In Its Own Quiet Way, I’m With Her Is a Supergroup 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The guitar in bluegrass is traditionally a part of the rhythm section, partly because it is more difficult to play fast on a guitar than on a banjo or a mandolin or a fiddle. Listening to Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Thursday, and was fiddling with the gate to his building’s courtyard when he was approached by a man in a mask. Bolshoi ballet artistic director attacked with acid 2013-01-19T03:41:40Z She and the bassist’s teenage sons occasionally join in on fiddle. A Bus Journey to a Time Before Abba 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z On the other side, in the recording booth, sound engineers surrounded by a grid of knobs and switches fiddle with microphone levels, change tone quality and account for reverb. Seattle makes beautiful music ? for films and videogames 2012-05-02T22:20:06Z I keep fiddling with the dimmer switch for the recessed lamps above the sink and mirror, but nope, they don’t get any brighter than this. Richmond’s Jefferson Hotel, return of a grandiose grand dame Their acoustic lineup included banjo, fiddle, mandolin and brass, and they dressed like a country outfit. Krystle Warren – review 2012-05-23T16:20:07Z Gleeson, who plays fiddle and mandolin, was also writing "a couple of bad plays" himself and trying to direct. 'Calvary' could mark a signature role in Brendan Gleeson's career 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z His flat-picking style became his signature, and he inspired generations of bluegrass and country artists with his spitfire handling of complex melodies normally reserved for fiddles and banjos. Doc Watson’s Legacy: What You Should Know About the Folk Legend 2012-05-30T14:57:44Z Backing is provided by Clark's homemade guitars, along with fiddle and banjo. Guy Clark: My Favorite Picture of You – review 2013-07-25T21:29:00Z Orphaned early and far from home, he protects his beloved fiddle with his life. Review | Paulette Jiles returns to the Civil War era with the romantic western ‘Simon and the Fiddler’ 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Unlike a sequin, no one would put a fiddle on a dress, because it’s just not very slimming. Self-flagellation and stuffed goodie bags: my night at the tacky, endearing Oscars 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Though he balked his first fiddle contest, he kept trying, even joining Monroe, the bluegrass fountainhead, onstage at age 9. An Unlikely Fiddler’s Dream 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Which is why, in the midst of a plant-décor boom, fiddle leaf figs, orchids and succulents made from plastic, polyester and silk have become popular. What’s the Point of a Fake Pot Plant? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The first episode of “Constantine” has been fiddled and polished to an acceptable and even entertaining degree, but NBC did not send further episodes for review. NBC’s ‘Constantine’: The devil you know a little too well Tarantino – who is notoriously opposed to fiddling with his films and maintains final-cut rights in his contracts – does not plan to co-operate with Chinese authorities, the Reporter said. Quentin Tarantino won't censor Once Upon a Time in Hollywood for China – report 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z A week spent with performers at the festival presented an opportunity to delve into the surprisingly subtle and complex nature of Scottish fiddling, and the elements that make it unique. Fiddling With the Past: The Secrets of Scottish Music 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Call the child to be dandled with rhymes,livened with drum-talk, cuddled and calmedwith flutes and fiddles, anthems and psalmody.Welcome the child with a sky full of chimes. Carols for Christmas 2010-12-18T00:07:31Z Rod Stewart … 'Plenty of songs left in the old fiddle.' Rod Stewart has No 1 album ... 34 years after his last one 2013-05-20T14:23:46Z Much later it transpired that Taylor mangled Cher's voice by fiddling with the Auto-Tune for a joke – to the chagrin of the record label, who demanded its removal. Hey, what's that sound: Auto-Tune 2010-04-06T15:38:00Z At their best, on tracks such as The Naughty Step, they start with bubbling electronica, sturdy percussion and a solid bass riff, then introduce hypnotic work-outs on pipe or fiddle. Peatbog Faeries: Dust ? review 2011-08-04T21:31:01Z We might not rob a bank, we might not sell drugs or fiddle our taxes, but he thought that all of us when pushed could just about find it in ourselves to kill. How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z "They would apply those church techniques to what they did in fiddle tunes or ballads." Carolinian banjo man Riley Baugus tops folk fest 2011-12-08T21:43:03Z Daniel Radcliffe plays second fiddle to great old-fashioned atmospherics in this decent adaptation. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-06-15T23:05:19Z Alexander Sitkovetsky, the leader in No. 4, played with an assertive, husky tone and provided fiery fiddling in the finale. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Plays Bach 2013-12-17T22:02:05Z However, with Lakeman's fiddle as hypnotic as the pied piper's, and the man playing with such gusto, it's undeniably compelling. Seth Lakeman 2010-07-11T20:46:00Z During their marriage, Plath tended to play second fiddle to him. The 10 best power couples 2013-02-16T15:30:00Z Seamus, though, was one of those rare poets whose writing evokes music: the fiddles, pipes and penny-whistles of his Northern Irish culture and upbringing. ArtsBeat: Another Kind of Music 2013-08-30T22:44:13Z James Ehnes is back in town, and fans of the fiddle will need no further inducement to line up at the Benaroya Hall box office to hear him play Bartók with the Seattle Symphony. A night of supercharged Bartok, sparkling Mozart at SSO 2014-03-14T18:08:01Z “I had never seen anyone carry a fiddle that way,” he said. After 35 years, a stolen Stradivarius finds its way home 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z While he's fiddling with filters, Daniel explains that Juice's policy is "ratings by day and reputation by night" but that the key is locality. A day in the life of Brighton's Juice FM 2013-05-11T04:59:00Z A “fiddle” forgotten by one of his fares. Review: A Priceless Violin, a Cut-Rate Caper 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Former “It” plants like the pilea peperomioides, with its coin-shaped leaves, and the fiddle leaf fig, a fixture of home design catalogs, have been bumped out of vogue. The Fiddle Leaf Fig Is Dead 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z The folk revival prized authenticity — the work song recorded in prison, the fiddle tune recorded on a back porch — and then diluted it as the making of amateur collegiate strum-alongs. Pete Seeger, 1919-2014: A Folk Revivalist Who Used His Voice to Bring Out a Nation’s 2014-01-29T02:31:11Z The track features some great banjo, fiddle and harmonica playing and I loved his voice. Readers recommend: songs about rabbits – results 2012-08-23T14:39:00Z “It’s about so much more, obviously,” Mr. Eisenberg continued, nervously fiddling with his tie. Scene City: A Facebook Face-to-Face 2010-09-29T19:00:00Z “This is what the board does,” Ms. Reese said in an interview: “It fiddles while Rome burns.” Democracy May Prove the Doom of WBAI 2013-08-20T22:18:03Z They played pizzica, a style said to cure snake bites, thanks to the pounding, hypnotic effect of the insistent frame drum, matched with fiddle, bagpipes, accordion and five-part harmonies. Womad festival 2013-07-29T09:54:17Z Mr. Vellani said in an interview that a stroke Mr. Thompson had in 2001 had hurt his fiddling but not his strong singing voice. Joe Thompson Dies at 93; Fiddler of String Band Legacy 2012-03-02T03:08:25Z “Holding his bow about five inches from the end, Joe Thompson draws a scratchy, rakish tone from his fiddle, full of higher overtones,” Jon Pareles wrote of the performance in The New York Times. Joe Thompson Dies at 93; Fiddler of String Band Legacy 2012-03-02T03:08:25Z It was my form of protest: "Stop fiddling with my music!" How we made: Richard Branson and Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells 2013-05-20T16:44:32Z It’s forever very okay — no matter how much the song assignments and gender politics are fiddled with. Kennedy Center’s Broadway-bound ‘Gigi,’ starring Vanessa Hudgens, affirms its undistinguished status 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z In past iterations of the building, acousticians always played second fiddle to architects. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Achatz’s food plays second fiddle in both rooms, and plays it beautifully. Grant Achatz, Science-Minded Chef, Turns to Cloning 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z My best guess is that since I was taught to keep my petunia covered, I probably knew I wasn’t supposed to be fiddling with it. I was a chronic masturbator 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z I would argue that you are known for doing voices at times and playing the second fiddle of the girl getting married, etc. etc. Q&A with Sarah Silverman: Her underrated acting career and why sometimes it’s just better to say you’re sorry 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z There's some down-home banter, quick introductions, a number of renditions of the show's "Oh! Susanna" closing song and much fiddle, pedal steel and acoustic wonder. Grammys 2015: An archival bounty within best historical album category 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z This, I think, is because Bong’s sharp sense of social satire plays second fiddle to his storytelling abilities. Why Parasite should win the best picture Oscar 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z I never tire of their music, which roams genres usually through some combination of guitar, bass, drums, accordion, harmonica, fiddle and voice. Unsung Mekons are a musical beacon of persistence and creativity 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z The video is set at a rodeo, but cowboy hats, mandolin and fiddle can’t lift the darkness. PinkPantheress’s Bittersweet ‘Barbie’ Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z At the festival’s nightly after-hours gathering last month, a wild reel flew from Christine Melanson’s fiddle, her knee bouncing to keep time as her foot stomped the floor. Fiddling With the Past: The Secrets of Scottish Music 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The original melody occurs only in the chorus of Katie Moss's version – the 'fiddle, cello, big bass drum' part. Cornish Floral Dance: a fuzzy custom 2011-07-07T21:00:02Z On “Timbuktu Tarab” the arrangements mix traditional Malian fiddle and lute with an electric band. Music Review: Mixing Electric Funk With Joyful Malian Wails 2011-03-06T22:51:02Z Ms. Giddens, the relative newcomer, has been playing traditionalist string-band music in the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and her fiddle glides through many of the arrangements. Albums by Nick Jonas, Bobby Shmurda and New Basement Tapes 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Gypsy fiddle replaced synthesizer, and party-hearty spirit took over, as Eugene Hutz and other members of Gogol Bordello romped through “Breaking Glass.” Review: Remembering David Bowie, With One Artist and One Song at a Time 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z To be fair, the emotional stuff plays second fiddle to the freaky science, which gets very freaky indeed. First sight: Delphine Chan?ac 2010-06-03T22:08:00Z I saw a fiddle on the wall, and I convinced him that I needed it. "I'm not quiet, but my voice still warbles": Amanda Shires on her new album and owning her strength 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z But Mark Shenton, writing for , said the problem with such effective staging was that the actors tended to play second fiddle. Critics applaud Strangers stage play 2013-11-20T12:58:45Z Over a thousand drummers drumming, fiddlers fiddling and trumpeters blowing, gigging everywhere from Horse Guards Parade to Camp Bastion. Next week's radio: from The Namer Of The Clouds to This American Life 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z The sleepaway-camp piece needed some tightening and fiddling, but I knew right away that I would publish it. Editing Jesse Eisenberg 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z In a new song of his own, “The Fireman’s Talkin’ ” — which turned toward Appalachia with banjo and fiddle — he warned about global warming. Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band Roar Into the Garden 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z I'd been fiddling around with old photos on my phone and I found this stop motion technique that I thought looked pretty cool. The Pierces' photo diary of their fifth album 2014-03-12T08:03:39Z Suddenly a commercial success, Genesis is out touring the world, which leads Collins’s wife to stray, which leads to him sitting at home angrily and fiddling around with drum machines. Phil Collins Wants You to Know He Isn’t Dead Yet 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z For survivors, however, a painful search for meaning goes on amid the waxwings and fiddle tunes. A crime novel that captures the humanity of a dying town in rural America 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z He tried to be subtle himself, hiding behind sunglasses and fiddling with his iPhone. A Real-Life GIF in Central Park 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Just goes to show there's plenty of songs left in the old fiddle. Rod Stewart has No 1 album ... 34 years after his last one 2013-05-20T14:23:46Z On inheriting the family furniture business, honest Jack resolves to show zero tolerance to petty theft, whether it be fiddling expenses or pinching paper-clips. Absurd Person Singular, 40 years on 2012-05-25T21:55:04Z A lot of the first act is like watching sluggers fiddle with their batting gloves instead of stepping up and taking swings. Review | Signature’s ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’ ’ takes a while to get jazzed up 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Grab your cowboy boots, fiddle and Tennessee whiskey because things are getting a little country on Fox this week. What’s on TV This Week: ‘American Horror Story’ and Global Citizens Festival 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z Mr. West sat next to her, head down, fiddling with his phone, seemingly uninterested in the minutiae. The Battle for Kanye West Is Happening in Real Time 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Or the companies are playing racists like a fiddle, benefiting from the free viral publicity their intercultural ads sometimes create when trolls object. Interracial intimacy on TV: We’ve come a long way since Captain Kirk and Uhura kissed 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z He plans to play one of Mozart’s sonatas and a new work of his own on the historical fiddle. ArtsBeat: Mozart Never Made It to America, but His Violin and Viola Are On the Way 2013-05-29T19:38:44Z All those charanga flutes and fiddles, stirring up dust at Memorial Stadium. Ten great Bumbershoot performances 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Young Ray taught himself to play ukulele and guitar at an early age and later provided music for square dances with his two older brothers, who played fiddle and guitar. Ray Edenton, ‘A-Team’ Studio Guitarist in Nashville, Dies at 95 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z You fiddle, at length, with cells in Excel. Wall Street should hate itself 2012-11-13T22:02:00Z Their common language of casual virtuosity — on fiddle, mandolin, banjo and guitar — found traction in a repertory suitable for the Grand Ole Opry. Review: Ry Cooder, Ricky Skaggs and the Whites, a Roots-Music Celebration 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Dempson then slung the saddle over a fender of a car, climbed into it, and “had himself driven around town playing the fiddle.” Song of Summer: “When Summer Comes Again,” by the Lewis Brothers 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z “We were just given a fiddle by a lady in England, but it’s broken and nobody knows how to fix it.” How to be hopeful: Colum McCann on the broken violin that played in a refugee camp 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z You mentioned fiddling around with software and recording yourself—do you relate to her struggle of getting people to understand your authorship? How Christine and the Queens Wrote One of the Best Songs of 2015 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z When these two beauties get together, the result is magic, and pepper is elevated from its usual place as second fiddle to salt to a full-blown starring role. Natasha Feldman's cacio e pepe mac and cheese is pure pasta comfort 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z This is the mathematical way to fiddle with the size of intervals between notes so that fixed-pitch instruments, particularly keyboards, can play in all 12 keys without retuning. What do microtones have to do with global warming? Two concerts offer an answer 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z For about forty-five minutes, the two of them played through a repertoire of country songs, ballads, a fiddle tune, and intricate instrumentals that they had either written or arranged. Listening to Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z In June he screened the “locked” picture for the first time — “locked” meaning he wasn’t supposed to fiddle with the running time, which he’d trimmed from 120 to 98 minutes. Whit Stillman and the Song of the Preppy 2012-03-18T05:30:57Z The concert will feature traditional Mongolian folk music with throat singing, horsehead fiddle, harp, piano and guitar. Spare Times for Dec. 18-24 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z The oldest, fiddling with a radio, finds some music and suddenly a bit of magic enters the room. Beauty, magic and sibling love — in three new books for young readers 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Stubbs says that at the Detroit show, an audience query led to Mark Fewer bursting into Cape Breton fiddle tunes. At 'Structured Impulse,' expect the unpredictable 2012-02-02T21:16:07Z She fiddles with her hair as she speaks, unconsciously illustrating what she's saying. Sally Hawkins: 'You think adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be capable' 2011-03-13T00:05:19Z More than an hour later, he heard another Marine fiddling with the outside latch. Life and death in the US Marines 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Some were surprised to discover that it was the doctor on the fiddle. Tunisian doctor plays violin to boost virus patients’ morale 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Photograph: Frank Baron Most 11 year-old boys would probably be fiddling with a computer game or enjoying a kickabout with a football. Tolpuddle Martyrs festival expects record-breaking crowd 2011-07-15T16:59:45Z Voyager started as kind of an accident, when the two of them went to fiddle contests in Montana and Idaho. Don’t fence me in: Phil Williams, who co-founded Folklife and fought to keep it free, dies at 80 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z But perhaps you can work a fiddle, order takeout and have a blowout at a neutral location. Hey, Mr. Critic: Food for Beer Lovers, Tennis Lovers and Lovers, Period 2011-08-18T21:26:38Z In the winter, while the bay hibernated, he'd fiddle with electronic sounds on his home computer. Feels like Devon 2011-04-01T23:01:00Z Settling on particular artworks “took a bit of fiddling,” he added. Look Up! All Signs Point to Art 2014-04-06T23:00:00Z On April 6 at Zankel, the festival will present the Gloaming, a quintet of Irish and American musicians who merge deeply traditional Irish fiddling and singing with daring, often luminously introspective harmonies and arrangements. Immigrants Created American Music. A New Festival Tells Their Stories. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z A 10-foot-tall fiddle leaf fig had been placed too close to the radiator over the holiday break, with the shades shut to boot, and was shedding leaves in revolt. You Can Pay People to Style Your Houseplants 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z That means your toddler or preschooler won’t be able to run off while you are still fiddling around with installation. Dealing with car seats while traveling abroad is tough. Here are some tips. 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Why, they ask, would our hometown hip-hop heroes be picked to play second fiddle? Roots' hometown fans want their heroes to headline 2010-06-09T20:40:00Z A woman named Rebecca was dressed as the farmer’s wife; there were oxen and lambs to pet, horses, a blacksmith and a woman fiddling away on an ancient violin. On Virginia?s Crooked Road, Music Lights the Way 2011-05-20T19:29:44Z There was some audible fiddling with the balance of the amplified sound. Review: One Birthday Tribute (of Many) for Steve Reich 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Pianists who appear in recital with other artists always risk playing second fiddle. After cancellation, Melnikov gives unplanned solo recital at the Phillips 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z In the case of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians, though, fiddling through a crisis represents an attempt to save their orchestra. BSO musicians try to keep summer schedule, without the orchestra 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Werner’s music reminds me of Cherryholmes’ bluegrass — with mandolin, fiddle, banjo, bass and guitar woven together like a carefully crafted quilt. Country Times: Songs to make a summer playlist sing 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z “For someone that doesn’t like to worry about technology and doesn’t want to fiddle with it at all, you really want the simplest one- or two-button kind of operation.” 2010-01-20T20:13:00Z Songs erupt naturally from the action, helped by the fact that the cast all play a variety of instruments including fiddle, guitar, drums, accordion and mandolin. Sweet simplicity 2013-04-09T22:01:00Z For years, the foot-stomping banjo and fiddle song “Wagon Wheel” was popular on the live circuits. Darius Rucker’s “Wagon Wheel” keeps rolling 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z At one point, the couple have a tense moment about her playing the fiddle too loudly. Jason Isbell’s “Running with Our Eyes Closed” and a marriage of two artists 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z I don’t read a DeLillo novel for its plot, character, setting; for who betrayed whom and how hard life with Mother was; for Phoenix days and Bombay nights; or for how to tune a fiddle. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z In the book, you say you hadn’t minded playing second fiddle to Lydon, but when Sid Vicious joined the Pistols, you were left playing third fiddle. ‘Pistol’ Tells Steve Jones’s Story. With a Touch of Showbiz. 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The piece builds to a meter-fracturing dance, then ends quizzically, with subdued, piercing harmonies for the cello and a wistful fiddle tune. Music Review: A Cozy Chamber Concert Buoyed by Lapping Water 2011-04-18T21:55:54Z This first experiment was, however, expensive; and that performance I saw in Paris last week was the result of months of fiddling around in a "3D experience lab". Dance and digital projection: bring on the virtual rhinos 2013-06-23T20:00:01Z Folklore described Watson as "a powerful singer and a tremendously influential picker who virtually invented the art of playing mountain fiddle tunes on the flattop guitar." Folk musician Doc Watson dies in NC hospital at 89 2012-05-30T00:37:08Z Mixed in, though, are enough squeaky clean ditties to suggest fiddling from label reps who heard the first draft freakouts and demanded easier hits like "Love in High Places" and "Nobody But You." Kimbra cooks up virtual layer cake of sound 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Yes, quite nice, probably – especially if we fiddle about round that corner bit for a while and then ... The language of verbal restraint 2010-07-20T14:11:00Z Please remain seated and don’t fiddle with technology in the rapids. A river guide lays out the dos and don’ts of rafting etiquette 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z “I even been to Carnegie Hall playing fiddle.” Joe Thompson Dies at 93; Fiddler of String Band Legacy 2012-03-02T03:08:25Z For the scene depicting a present-day economic forum, Mr. Norris updated references, mentioning Brexit and protectionist policies, but saw no need to fiddle with the punch lines. A Political Satire on Stage, and Not About Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z I think it was probably three, four months into his presidency when I started fiddling with this. Dave Eggers on Trump and the perception of truth in unscripted lies 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Just to give you a simple example, if you were starting out now as an Irish traditional musician, you really want to play the fiddle, learn the tunes. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z No more kneeling in the dirt fiddling with tent posts, searching for that eternally misplaced flashlight or struggling to boil water for your morning joe. S’more, s’il vous plait? A French company opens its first ‘glampground’ in the U.S. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z I come back into the studio and fiddle around some more before I get dressed. An Artist Who Makes Paintings Without a Canvas 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z There will be crying fiddles, barking banjos and a clutch of voices higher and more lonesome than Mount Everest. July 11 ? 17 2010-07-09T22:44:00Z By the time I was in my teens in the 1980s and becoming serious about studying the violin, virtually every album of fiddle music I owned featured him. Itzhak Perlman, Violin Legend, Still Proves the Critics Wrong 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Joe Thompson, a fiddle player, is credited with preserving the black string band. Joe Thompson Dies at 93; Fiddler of String Band Legacy 2012-03-02T03:08:25Z He speaks in ellipses, often leaving sentences hanging, and fiddles apologetically with his BlackBerry. US photographer Steve McCurry: Go with the flow 2010-06-28T20:31:00Z In the long term, however, Howard's writing suffered during their marriage, and she referred to their relationship as "my second fiddle period". Obituary: Elizabeth Jane Howard 2014-01-02T19:26:16Z They sang “Iggin’ Me,” one of Chico’s great singles, with El happily playing second fiddle. Music Review: On His Own, Finding His Range Again 2010-10-07T22:25:00Z Grand Picnic, a New York band, will perform a combination of Southern tunes with French Canadian and New England fiddle music. Spare Times for June 15-21 2012-06-14T22:42:15Z Marriage was the primary relationship and everything else was just second fiddle to that. “No One Tells You This”: That single women aren’t a problem for marriage and kids to fix 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Spinney, of Stripers Forever, says Maryland is the striped bass’s worst enemy on the East Coast, likening the state to Nero, fiddling while Rome burned. Are striped bass doomed? Some conservationists are worried. 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z True, but the little boy plays Franklin like a fiddle. About a (Bad) Boy 2011-12-08T13:15:55Z Kushner sips a cup of tea while Sturgeon fiddles with a paperclip. Rachel Kushner meets Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I'm so glad I'm a novelist and not a politician’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Elias was always grateful to be Johan’s friend, flattered that he had been noticed and plucked from obscurity, content to play fiddle on the second or third desk, well behind the leader. The Books I Loved in 2015 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z He made hundreds of cylinder and 78-rpm records, often accompanied by his wife, Hattie, on fiddle and vocals; she was one of the first female country musicians on record. Ken Burns’s ‘Country Music’ shines a spotlight on an unsung Washingtonian 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Leo Fender had another far-reaching idea, introduced in 1952: an electric bass guitar that was far more portable, louder and crisper than a classic bass fiddle. Behind the Guitar Heroes 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The one instrument not brass or percussion is what appears to be a Stroh violin, a rare, turn-of-the-20th-century fiddle with a megaphone attached. When refusing the hour saves the day 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z I have had more than one close call with the fiddle I have played for the past 25 years. Beady eye 2011-03-03T11:33:18Z "Temporary Ground," off Jack White's new solo album, "Lazaretto," is an insta-classic ode to the fleeting beauty of life, delivered through fiddle, acoustic guitar, piano, pedal steel, voice and heart. Jack White's 'Lazaretto' taps Nashville for songs' wellspring 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z He sounded especially muted and nervously fiddled with his earpiece. 'The Voice' recap: Two sent home in surprising results show 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z For Hammer, the chance to play second fiddle was rare, and welcome. Bringing to Life the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Only Her Family Knows 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Once seated, he fiddled with the lighting again. Date Lab: The attraction was virtually immediate 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Elsewhere on Patchwork Girlfriend, the melody dissolves into controlled discord before returning, while the Swedish song Flippen is an exercise in rapid-fire mandolin and fiddle work. Punch Brothers: Who's Feeling Young Now? ? review 2012-02-09T22:42:01Z Installation might involve fiddling with hinge placement or planing off a bit of wood to get an exact fit. How to replace a wooden front door with one that has glass panels 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z “When you’re in transition, there’s a sense that life lives you,” he said, fiddling with an elastic bracelet that he wore to keep his room key attached around his wrist. David Milch Still Has Stories to Tell 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Collins fiddled with the music—Grimes, Concrete Blonde—which she’d picked out the night before. The Female Gaze of Petra Collins 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z He was an easy mark, and Hitchcock played him like a fiddle. “Marnie” Is the Cure for Hitchcock Mania 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z I’d disappear into my book for an hour or more, then reemerge and there he’d be: pacing, scratching, fiddling with the phone, pumping iron – a hundred sets of two – most sincerely strung out. Getting off (line): I’m giving up online porn, and so should you 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Come tomorrow, we'll end up wincing as lively, hungry eastern Europeans knock it around the ring with their fiddles and trance breakdowns and unashamed power ballad pyrotechnics. Tom Ewing 2010-05-27T21:44:00Z In its final minute, the track introduces a fiddle that could easily lead to a whole new phase of the relationship. Beyoncé’s Dance-Floor Salvation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z And though the Cars sounded tepid in new-wave revival mode, across the park Flogging Molly whipped up a Celtic punk frenzy with tin whistle, fiddle, accordion, mandolin and a whole lot of fiesty attitude. Lollapalooza closes on high note 2011-08-08T02:22:00Z To the American ear forró may seem to have some affinities with Cajun music, especially zydeco, in part because the accordion and the fiddle reign supreme in both genres. Forró Events at Lincoln Center and Brasil Summerfest 2012-07-12T21:52:24Z Big beats often heaved into the foreground but also tapered away, leaving room for more delicate sounds: a sliding bass fiddle line, a glimmering harp. Music Review: Emancipator Plays at Highline Ballroom 2012-02-03T23:23:15Z The performance will be done with the original Ellington instrumentation, including valve trombone, guitar and two bass fiddles. More for jazz lovers: MMW, SRJO and Tom Baker 2013-04-11T20:45:46Z So the fiddle tuning, with its unpredictable pitch bending and its elemental drone, sounded like the beginnings of another song. Review: Katarina Livljanic’s ‘Heretical Angels’ Contemplates Mortality 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Part of the love of this for me is the process, so I can never stop fiddling with it. "I bake for every emotion" — Zoë François on finding connection through cake 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z A masterclass in tension, as well as a stomach-churning buffet of bone, blood and viscera, the physical carnage actually plays second fiddle to far more upsetting existential implications. Mutant bears, flying heads and chainsaw duels: the best movie moments of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Most of the stunts, fights and chases end up playing second fiddle to her bone structure or her wry, unimpressed stare. Rebecca Ferguson on Mission: Impossible – ‘Tom says he makes the films for the audience. I don’t’ 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Her shoulders are hunched and she is fiddling nervously with her small leather handbag, an uncertain smile on her face. Kirsten Dunst: ‘The movie industry is in a weird place – creatives blossom on TV’ 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Studying fiddling brought me closer to Baroque music, because there are similarities. Q&A with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who plays with Seattle Symphony Dec. 7 2010-12-02T00:43:00Z Her soft, welcoming voice floats over delicately picked acoustic guitar and an occasional banjo or fiddle, or her own recordings of birds. After 43 Years, Mossy Kilcher’s Folk Songs for Alaska Get a Second Life 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z The wiser artists didn't fiddle much with her arrangements. As book thrives, Carole King closing book on music 2012-05-10T16:49:11Z “What do you mean, ‘fair’?” he asked, as he fiddled with an attachment for his hose. Creative Time Sand Castle Competition for Artists 2012-08-19T22:30:09Z Opening one’s home to folk and acoustic concerts is a tradition as old as the music itself, harking back to porch jug bands and after-dinner fiddle sessions. Chicago News Cooperative: For the Ultimate, Intimate Concert, Host It Yourself 2010-12-05T06:45:00Z But there was a dialogue between traditions when Mr. McCoury’s bluegrass band shared songs with Preservation Hall; clarinet and fiddle traded solos that stayed true to their own idioms, while the rhythm meshed. Music Review: Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Carnegie Hall - Review 2012-01-08T23:16:20Z They liked the country – the real solid hardcore steel guitars and fiddles – they still do. Willie Nelson: 'If we made marijuana legal, we'd save a whole lotta money and lives' 2012-05-17T14:45:01Z Everybody knows that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Review | ‘The Confessions of Young Nero,’ by Margaret George 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z On American Grit, Cena notionally plays second fiddle to a team of four he calls “the cadre”; they’re military veterans who, like judges on The Voice, pick teams of competitors to mentor. Review: 'American Grit' Could Make John Cena a Superstar 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z But each one has met his match in Anna, a femme fatale who can play a man like a fiddle. Joseph Losey's restored 'Accident' high on shock value 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Lau are a remarkable band, particularly live, thanks to their stirring, complex, partly improvised compositions and the virtuoso interplay between fiddle, accordion and guitar. Lau: Race the Loser – review 2012-09-27T20:48:01Z In a recent interview via e-mail, Ms. Stott discussed the roots of her interest in Darwin, the reasons Mr. Wallace played second fiddle without complaint and more. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Author Rebecca Stott on 'Darwin's Ghosts' 2012-08-08T16:44:34Z Mr. Holmes, who recently played the victim of a leveraged buyout in Mr. Hughes’s production of Ayad Akhtar’s “Junk,” now gets revenge as the alpha moneybags gleefully fiddling with someone else’s balance sheet. Review: ‘Dan Cody’s Yacht’ Sells Upward Mobility for Dummies 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z While she believes the "poor have recognised that it happened, the upper class were fiddling while Rome burns," and are still, to some extent, in denial. Aminatta Forna: a life in writing 2013-05-03T17:00:02Z On a recent night, the house band played Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” on fiddle and guitar, while an enthusiastic crowd sang and danced along. 36 Hours in Whistler 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z When he first heard a recording of Mr. Potts’s fiddle playing, not long after leaving “Riverdance,” he found the music “deeply esoteric,” he said. ‘Riverdance’ Was Years Ago. Colin Dunne Makes Quiet Music Now. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The episode has a baseline of forest birdsong; we meet a man and his barking dogs, hear older people speaking Elfdalian, segue into lovely traditional fiddle music and singing, and then start thinking about moose. “Slow Radio,” The Podcast That Promotes Monks, Moose, and Inner Peace 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z “I got the name of being a pretty good fiddle player,” Joe Thompson once said. Joe Thompson Dies at 93; Fiddler of String Band Legacy 2012-03-02T03:08:25Z Sunil is in the waiting room fiddling with a radio, trying to get BBC International for news about a monsoon that has been raging for days in the village where his parents were raised. "In Treatment" recap: Frances reads her test results 2010-11-23T13:30:00Z His last album of new material was recorded live, and this double set includes 15 new songs recorded "ridiculously quickly" at the Nashville home of guitar hero Buddy Miller, with fiddle virtuoso Stuart Duncan. Richard Thompson: Electric – review 2013-02-06T21:45:01Z “I’m going to get a massage on my lunch break tomorrow,” a woman at the bar told her friend, as she fiddled with a large gold necklace. Santa Monica as the New Silicon Valley 2014-03-14T23:34:51Z Did the cookies on my computer effectively tell the website that I'd been fiddling around making up my mind? Beware the cookies: they can cost you money 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z Elsewhere, Seth Lakeman is on high-octane fiddling form, while the Moulettes sing about bloodshed in the woodshed, brilliantly, at the Den. Cambridge folk festival 2012-07-31T17:33:57Z The five-piece band — a wrecking crew of young talent in traditional formation: mandolin, banjo, fiddle, guitar and bass — could nimbly handle Thile’s jump cuts between sections and his layering of harmonic modes. The Endless Curiosity of Chris Thile 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Lighthearted piano, sprightly fiddle and soulful slide guitar lend a country twang to most of the 11 tracks. Review: Jack White goes country on second solo CD 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z And then came the moment we were waiting for: Poor Annie, who had flowered under Harley's attention, raised her fiddle and started to play. Dear "Treme": Why are you in such a hurry? 2011-06-27T15:01:00Z White’s new album is called “Lazaretto,” and the title track comes out with guns blazing: the lyrics are surreal, the guitar solo is jagged, and there’s even a protracted fiddle solo at the end. Five Songs 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Jack Liebeck was the soloist in the Violin Concerto No 1, bringing idiomatic touches to a work that transplants folk fiddle gestures into the framework of a grand romantic concerto. RPO/Brabbins – review 2013-03-13T17:42:25Z “The first time when you teach it, they say, ‘I can do that with my fiddle?’” How Do You Write Down a Scratching, Crunching Violin ‘Chop’? 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Yet today, the 89-year-old plays second fiddle to many of those better known industry greats. A Retrospective Celebrates the Queen of the Miniskirt 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z One of the études is influenced by Norwegian folk tunes, which Mr. Trueman played unaccompanied with flair on his Hardanger fiddle, an instrument whose scales inspired one of the bitKlavier’s tunings. Review: Dan Trueman’s ‘Nostalgic Synchronic’ Takes Cage Into the 21st Century 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Especially in Dubai, women are constantly buying and fiddling with makeup. Beauty Blogging in Dubai 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z They leaned in for gentle, perfectly blended harmonies from their debut album, “See You Around”; they fingerpicked and fiddled in lapidary counterpoint. In Its Own Quiet Way, I’m With Her Is a Supergroup 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The radio was kept permanently tuned to the BBC's Home Service and she did not like anyone to fiddle with it. Family life: My religious grandfather, the Beatles and Gran's Hungarian pancakes 2013-07-06T06:30:10Z Markle was also spotted fiddling with her delicate gold necklace during the match, a piece that Cosmopolitan reports paid tribute her growing family. Meghan Markle's US Open J.Crew dress sells out 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Reforming health care in America means fiddling with an industry that is larger than the economies of all but five countries. Good, bad and ugly 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z One night, though, Cleveland dreamed about playing “Soldier’s Joy,” a mirthful fiddle number about payday he’d heard countless times. An Unlikely Fiddler’s Dream 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Cape Breton fiddling is closely associated with Scottish step dancing — and at any Cape Breton musical event, someone invariably breaks into a step dance. Fiddling With the Past: The Secrets of Scottish Music 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z My sister, fiddling with a camera, nodded to her. Chasing the Northern Lights in Alaska 2014-01-03T19:30:21Z When it was time for “Honey,” she turned the volume up even higher and fiddled at the mixer for a bit, then sat down on a gold chair. How Robyn, Pop’s Glittery Rebel, Danced Her Way Back From Darkness 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z I remember him saying with a big smile "if there is a fire save the fiddle and leave the kids"! Beady eye 2011-03-03T11:33:18Z The response from the philanthropic community was variously, “Why are you fiddling with dance while the planet is on fire?” Do Men Still Rule Ballet? Let Us Count the Ways. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Such fiddling with policy is a good part of modern politics. The Sickness of Our Time: Is It Populism or Fascism? 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Barnes announced his presence with a mournful fiddle solo, and received a raucous reception from the crowd. Where the Hills and Hollows Are Alive With Music 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z He fiddles with the sounds of brain waves. Charles Curtis plays Alvin Lucier and Eliane Radique 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z “Drawing through this economic and social upheaval can feel like Nero fiddling through the flames,” Chadsey said. From Geoffrey Chadsey, a Visual Diary of the Last Days of Summer 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z The combination of “cuts,” shorter and faster bow strokes, and occasional crunching of the bow results in a choppier, coarser sound — what Cape Bretoners call the “dirt” in their fiddling. Fiddling With the Past: The Secrets of Scottish Music 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z She enjoyed reading the newspaper, liked to fiddle with crossword puzzles, and always made herself useful around the house. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z The opening wall text deplores the “second fiddle” status of Los Angeles to New York as an art scene, which seems a bit melodramatic. Art Review: A Bit of Hollywood, Minus the Tinsel 2011-05-31T23:36:56Z Am I mad or does the fact that David Laws is gay make no difference to the fact that he fiddled his expenses? The David Laws story is nothing to do with gayness. It's about money 2010-05-29T23:06:00Z It was a social experiment for a magazine article: If a world-famous musician and his $3 million fiddle brought some of history’s most beautiful music to a rush-hour crowd, would people stop and listen? Joshua Bell is playing in the Metro again. This time, maybe you won’t pass it up. Carey flipped her long, shiny hair, fiddled with a gold necklace, put a hand on her hip. Mariah Carey’s Rather Perfect Farewell to 2016 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z On one side of him, Guilherme Granado fiddled intently with a sampler and a keyboard; on the other, Thomas Rohrer used a tiny mallet to elicit steely chimes from an amplified kitchen whisk. Review: Rob Mazurek’s Black Cube SP Plays at ShapeShifter Lab 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z When this happens, I quickly email the list to my editor so that I can’t fiddle with it anymore. Music Monday: The Making of TIME?s Top 10 Albums and Songs of the Year 2011-11-28T09:55:44Z Make sure you’re not the one causing problems by staying as alert as possible yourself, rather than fiddling with a cellphone or drink. E-bike etiquette: Respect the rules of the road (and trail) with these tips 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z “Michael’s life has been hard. Those feelings come out on his fiddle.” An Unlikely Fiddler’s Dream 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Worse, our naive hero finds that virtually everyone is fiddling expenses. Stiffed! 2010-04-18T20:30:00Z IT starts with a well-worn fiddle, held in equally well-worn hands above a tapping black cowboy boot. On Virginia?s Crooked Road, Music Lights the Way 2011-05-20T19:29:44Z Mr. Beilman was especially impressive, with blazing fiddle solos in the Fourth Concerto and strong playing elsewhere on both violin and viola. ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos at Alice Tully Hall 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Abe is a man who is physically and mentally broken, and Morgan makes you feel all his pain — especially when he hits bottom, being demoted to working as second fiddle to a rodeo clown. Here are 6 great film performances you missed in 2020 – and how to watch them 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z They play second fiddle to the malt — this is an impressively well-balanced beer — but are more prominent than in other, more traditional and more bland festbiers. Beer of the Week: Sierra Nevada-Brauhaus Riegele Oktoberfest 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Young Jim grew up playing gospel music at home on the fiddle with his father, uncle and two sisters. Jim Stewart, Unlikely Entrepreneur of Soul Music, Dies at 92 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z He plays old-fashioned "hillbilly" music on fiddle, banjo and guitar; he wears tweeds, grandad shirts and hair oil. Frank Fairfield: Sorting the funky from the fogeys 2010-07-22T22:21:00Z The group tucks serious musical lore — like the use of the traditional rabeca fiddle — into wry songs. Music Review: Sounds of the World, Sousaphones Included 2011-01-10T22:56:20Z Ms. Krauss requested horns like those that Merle Haggard sometimes used, and for once, her fiddle fills are dwarfed by the frequent, pillowy flourishes of a string section. Alison Krauss: Vintage Country. Modern Self-Awareness. 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z It would also appear that their coffins came furnished with a great assortment of musical instruments, including fiddles, guitars, banjos, tambourines and harmonicas. Review: What the Singing Dead Remember in ‘Spoon River’ 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Yet often the land played second fiddle to the breakneck pace of transformation in the century. How the East Was Won: A Photographic Portrait 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Fairfield did his job more warily, using dynamics, making his nasal voice dip and rise below his picking and fiddling, saving something for himself, even when dealing out double-entendres about birds. Music Review: Frank Fairfield and Blind Boy Paxton at Jalopy 2010-07-21T22:41:00Z He believes that work songs evolved into “mouth music”— songs to be danced to — and that the tunes were later adopted by fiddle players. Fiddling With the Past: The Secrets of Scottish Music 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The evening begins with a ferocious bout of scene-setting pipe-and-drum music, and ends with one of the witches playing a Scottish lament on the fiddle that unnerves the newly enthroned Malcolm. Macbeth – review 2013-07-04T22:00:00Z He showed me my first fiddle song, "Spanish Two Step." "I'm not quiet, but my voice still warbles": Amanda Shires on her new album and owning her strength 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z She had grown up on a farm and played the fiddle — an idealized country girl who could keep me in line. Trying to Keep Up With Grandma’s Love Life 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z In this piece, a witty, careening sprint through 50 short musical segments, rambunctious snippets of country fiddling and cartoonish outbursts mesh into more somber, conventionally classical passages, all played with aplomb by the ensemble. Music Review: The JACK Quartet Plays Bryant Park 2013-07-28T19:41:00Z “It’s so odd. Kind of like Nero fiddling while Rome burned,” she said. After Fires, Napa and Sonoma Tourism Industry Is Getting Back on Its Feet 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Many of her subsequent records have contemplated the life lost with her family; she often plays an Apache fiddle, made from an agave stalk, that she received during that reunion trip. Upending Expectations for Indigenous Music, Noisily 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z You can ponder the skeleton of a dog, and fiddles, bellows and signet rings. Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth – review 2013-06-01T23:05:24Z The furious fiddling climaxes, and a title flashes on the screen: . Beasts of the Southern Wild: The Sundance Sensation Wins Cheers at Cannes 2012-05-18T20:01:44Z A suite of fiddle music as wide open as the plains of Montana. Carpe Diem String Quartet takes its music to the people 2010-11-18T02:52:00Z The Wall Street indictment “Easy Money” prances along with Irish flavored fiddle, yet still rollicks with gruff yelps and extra stomp provided by, yes, those unnecessarily feared drum loops. On Wrecking Ball, Springsteen Tries Something New, Ends Up Sounding Like Springsteen 2012-03-06T11:43:38Z Garganega may be Italy’s stealth white: The grape’s name rarely appears on labels, but it plays top fiddle as the grape of Soave from the region around Venice. The white wines of Italy go far beyond pinot grigio 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Performances, they said, were like a victory lap after years of fiddling with songs, despite critics who argue that E.D.M. performers do little more live than twist a few knobs. The D.J. Maestros Axwell and Ingrosso Aim to Shake the Rafters 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Plucking at two fiddles, Wood gently eased into Albion, his bleak true story about discovering a suicide, now dissected with angry rap from Dizraeli. Chris Wood and Dizraeli ? review 2012-05-21T17:15:01Z Shining shoes, sharpening pencils, fiddling a tax return – any activity that bypasses the brain, soothes the savage breast. Kitchen gadgets review: Kogel Mogel whisk – I’m 42% happier with it in my life | Rhik Samadder 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Watkins' eponymous first album was an American-roots bonanza of yearning ballads, jaunty Texas swing and sparse gospel tunes, a collection that showcased not only her fiddling but also a sweet, accomplished voice. Sara Watkins: 'I wanted to leave my comfort zone' 2013-01-30T17:13:17Z “Violin”and “fiddle”are names for the same instrument. Start this week on a high note by celebrating National Violin Day 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z I came out of the lesson, and I said, "Mom, I want to be a fiddle player." "I'm not quiet, but my voice still warbles": Amanda Shires on her new album and owning her strength 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z I really didn’t start playing fiddle or banjo till I was 23, 24. Q&A with Rhiannon Giddens: The power of failure, the genius of Geeshie Wiley and why she’s ‘not just a banjo player’ 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z It’s a dense, ever-shifting collage, variously hinting at ska-punk, Britpop, fiddle tunes and “Sympathy for the Devil,” with barbed bits of lyrics like “sordid, sentimental, sick souvenirs” and “Even the devil sold his soul.” Demi Lovato’s Anguished ‘Anyone,’ and 11 More New Songs 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z There and elsewhere in the set — notably on a gallop through the Appalachian fiddle tune “Cluck Old Hen” — the band felt both propelled and heavily anchored by the beat. Music Review: Floating Along on the Rhythm While Staying Anchored to the Beat 2011-04-20T21:48:56Z And she played second fiddle only to the bride at their wedding last year, wearing a pink off-the-shoulder Chanel confection. Charlotte Casiraghi: Carrying On the Grimaldi Tradition 2012-05-20T17:10:14Z A chance encounter with storefront posters for a Fourth of July bluegrass festival in Berryville, Va., led Ihde to a bucolic scene of nonstop fiddles and revelry along a bend of the Shenandoah River. A filmmaker reissues what some consider the definitive bluegrass documentary, featuring the Osborne Brothers 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z “Bear with Mary,” he said as she tuned her fiddle, “she just started.” Travel: Mountain View, Ark., Folk Music Capital of the World Looking back, it was a good thing: the fiddle is a lot less trouble to take on aeroplanes. Nigel Kennedy 2013-03-05T17:45:00Z Pack up your fiddles and go home boys and girls. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z If you think finger-wagging about sequins while your guests take private jets to the beach house and helicopters to music festivals is the literalisation of fiddling while Rome burns, well, that’s ridiculous. Self-flagellation and stuffed goodie bags: my night at the tacky, endearing Oscars 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z “They bribed me with fiddles,” he told The New York Times in 1976. Ruggiero Ricci, Virtuoso Violinist, Dies at 94 2012-08-10T02:50:07Z In Northumberland, it became a pitmen's recreation, danced solo or to the accompaniment of a fiddle, and almost exclusively by men. Clog dancing's big street revival 2010-12-02T22:59:00Z He lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and his new fiddles go for $55,000. News Analysis: The Value of Valuable Violins 2012-01-29T04:17:15Z A scene in this week’s episode wasn’t promising: the young quarterback Mark Sanchez fiddled with his duffel bag and generally looked uninterested as he was lectured about his demeanor by the quarterbacks coach Matt Cavanaugh. | 'Hard Knocks': Jets Love Rex Ryan, but Tony Dungy Faults His Mouth 2010-08-20T22:18:00Z Now it seems we are all content to dismiss the beauty around us in favour of fiddling with filters. Is Instagram changing the way we design the world? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Early versions, Stevenson said, ended up with Ballister as the focus and Nimona as some sort of manic pixie dream girl, playing second fiddle to the lovelorn knight. How ‘Nimona’ Helped Its Creator Explore His Emerging Identity 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z He descends into a bit of a hum and a haw, fiddles with his apple juice. Simon Bird spreads his wings 2011-02-20T00:05:18Z I like to encourage people to eat it with their fingers – so much easier than fiddling around with a knife and fork! The 20 best Italian recipes: part 4 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z “There’s an awful lot of fiddling about, which is very creative and exciting.” Fuzzy Thinking: Artist-Designed Rugs 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z There's another Tap moment when Rossi fiddles with Lancaster's nether regions to rescue a guitar lead that has become unplugged. Status Quo – review 2013-03-14T17:48:46Z “Everybody who lives here has got issues of some sort or another,” he says fiddling nervously with his fingers. The private renters trapped in Britain’s new slums 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z She spent four months fiddling, eventually producing the world's first AirPiano-specific composition, a spare, dreamy ballad called "Alive, Alive". Jo Hamilton 2011-07-09T23:05:39Z Yet for some men, playing second fiddle in such high profile occasions may be too much to take, said Fuller. The "Oscar curse," real or Hollywood invention? 2010-03-19T00:07:00Z After the owner departed, leaving us alone in the RV, my friend and I stayed up late scooping up dead bugs and fiddling with the air-conditioning, which was blowing subtropical air. A newbie RV renter learns from her mistakes — and so can you 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Each party gropes for advantage by fiddling with the franchise. Why the Right to Vote Is Not a Right 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z I spun around and saw nothing but my son and the dive master fiddling with their own lights. Scuba Diving in Thailand: A Balancing Act 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z She knew how to play me like a fiddle. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z He changed folk music forever by adapting fiddle tunes to guitar at amazing tempos, Huttlinger said. Folk musician Doc Watson dies in NC hospital at 89 2012-05-30T00:37:08Z While in its early years it was performed to fiddle and banjo, now routines are regularly choreographed to pop and hip-hop. For Two Cloggers, 20 Years to Get in Step and Get Married 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z On the latest album, called “Bloodstains and Teardrops,” Boudreaux sings and plays tambourine with other musicians on guitar, drums, harmonica and fiddle. Mardi Gras Indian chief prepares for Fat Tuesday and Grammys 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Go into the past and you'll find many big celebrity books that made oodles of cash vanish like a seaside magician fiddling with a publisher's gold watch. Forget Pippa Middleton's party pooper. Not all celebrity books are a bum deal 2012-11-15T11:45:50Z Ms. Pureka works the folk circuit, and the measured strumming and stark picking of her acoustic guitar are at the center of most songs, flanked by Appalachian-tinged fiddle and a snare drum played with brushes. Playlist: Vintage Rock and Midlife Heartaches 2010-05-20T22:21:00Z Which means they don’t want to be second fiddle to you. Steve McQueen and Viola Davis on Hollywood, Race and Power 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Daniels made his first mark as a session musician in the late 1960s and early ’70s, playing guitar, bass, fiddle and banjo on Nashville recordings by Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr and Leonard Cohen. Charlie Daniels, Fiddling Force in Country and Rock, Dies at 83 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Most of the time, her soft and stretchy voice is spread atop oozing, shimmery production, and manipulated by machines; it’s a toy to be fiddled with and molded. Review: Dej Loaf Releases ‘#AndSeeThatsTheThing’ 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Onstage the night before, Ms. Manville’s hands were instruments of Mary’s pain, fiddling restlessly, wringing each other red, scratching at her neck and plinking madly at the piano. Lesley Manville Has Waited Long Enough 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z |
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