As I write this, Hurricane Dorian has blown into the Bahamas as a massive Cat 5 storm and stalled. It’s unclear what effect it will have here in South Carolina. You know what they say in Charleston: ...

there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle —Marianne Moore, “Poetry” Well, all that fiddle perhaps. But not this sublime faddle, far more important than whatever “this fiddle” might ...

Composed for string orchestra and later orchestrated for full orchestra, Fiddle-Faddle was completed January 1, 1947. It is 3 minutes and 10 seconds long. It was first performed for string orchestra ...