fiddle-faddle

“I second her fiddle-faddle,” said Mae.

“I’ll bet you my whole store it’s a matter of time before everyone starts buying cheap fiddle-faddle from SmartMart rather than paying a little more for something from their own neighbors.”

A pops orchestra had better have a technically adept violin section if it performs “Fiddle-Faddle,” a joyous perpetual-motion piece alive with dizzying strands of 16th-notes for the violins.

The prime minister, leaders of all the major political parties, nearly every banker and corporate chieftain and most media barons had sternly lectured common Brits that talk of withdrawal was irresponsible fiddle-faddle that could undermine the global economic order.

That left some brief chestnuts — Richard Rodgers’s “Carousel Waltz,” Leroy Anderson’s “Fiddle-Faddle” and Sousa’s “The Washington Post” march — and just one substantial piece: a 20-minute version of Bernstein’s “West Side Story” suite, arranged in 2001 for violin and orchestra by William David Brohn.