“So, this is a tap show?” asked a friend, minutes before the curtain went up for Step Afrika's Miller Outdoor Theatre performance on a balmy Saturday night.
Houston, meet KINETIC, a new conductorless ensemble founded by two accomplished young musicians: New Zealand violinist Natalie Lin and Cellist Max Geissler.
Mark Nuccio, who joined the New York Philharmonic in 1999 as associate principal and solo e-flat clarinet, knows that some may think he’s off his rocker for trading in tenure in the Big Apple for heat and humidity.
