Nic McGegan was on his toes throughout the Friday morning Coffee Concert. Since his own bio
uses the "Energizer Bunny"
description that a Cleveland Plain Dealer
critic bestowed on him, I feel confidant in using it here. Especially as my
Friday morning Coffee Concert companion had such a good time watching Nic move
as nimbly as Muhammad Ali at his finest. "I love McGegan," my friend said.
And the orchestra
does too, playing the joyful music
of the morning (Handel, Haydn,
Mendelssohn) joyfully. Although my friend and I wished that during a long wind
and horn interlude in Handel's Concerto a due cori No. 3 in F major, the string players would have gotten up and taken part
in a Baroque dance, perhaps choreographed by Mel Brooks.
From that bit of irreverence there
was the stunning virtuosity of
Stephen Hough playing the heart and
soul out of Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto, and Mendelssohn's Fifth
Symphony as a finale in this, Mendelssohn's 200th-birthday year. Nic danced to the very end.
