A button that plays the phrase "Oh, no you didn't!" when your co-worker interrupts you.
Instead, they ended up jamming over him playing the phrases on the violin.
Mr. Friedlander played the first phrase of the melody with Mr. Dunn, and the second with Mr. Wamble.
As the pianist played the opening phrase, all eyes moved to the stage.
When a song was unfamiliar, Mr. Ungar played the melody one phrase at a time and the fiddlers played it back, while Ms. Mason showed the chords to the guitarists and banjo players.
In the Larghetto slow movement Mr. Tetzlaff played the wistful melodic phrases with arching lyricism and radiantly penetrating pianissimos, while in the orchestra Mr. Levine achieved an uncanny balance between timelessness and subdued intensity.
(That error may have been abetted by the British television series whose title played on the phrase).
They played with the phrase "Senator Clinton," giving scant thought to the Long Island Republican, Rick Lazio, who expressed his intention yesterday to run in Mr. Giuliani's place.
Mr. Wood often came through unostentatiously as an anchor, playing the right phrase to pull the song together.
Irv Grossman plays with top musicians and shows, and has needled his brother occasionally about playing the same phrase over and over.
