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Nevertheless, the form is fragile, and pressing it too hard can have bizarre results. Scott Bunn's forthcoming Just Hold On, for example, is serious but unfortunately reads like a literary version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Heroine Charlotte Maag, 16, is raped by her father, an Albany pediatrician. She befriends fellow Loner Stephen Herndon, who is hiding the shame and rejection of his own physician-father's alcoholism. By midstory Charlotte is on the sauce, Stephen is involved in a homosexual affair with a football star named Rolf, and both tumble into bed with another couple...
Last week at Lincoln Center's Mozart-Haydn Festival, Maag demonstrated his preoccupation in a concert with the New York Chamber Orchestra. Three of the four works were in E-flat -Mozart's Symphony No. 39, and Haydn's Trumpet Concerto and "Schoolmaster" Symphony (which he conducted from the harpsichord). Maag also programmed Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, but that was scored in A-major, and everybody pretended not to notice...
Tonal Anguish. What the audience did notice was that there was nothing minor about Maag's conducting talent. He has all the requirements for a superior conductor of Haydn and Mozart -a faultless sense of classical proportion and a keen ear for blended Mozartean sonority that allows important detail to come through crisply...
Though this was his New York debut, Maag's music making was already familiar to American audiences. He has conducted an impressive number of recordings-notably the Mozart Prague and the Mendelssohn Scotch-in the past 15 years. Save for a four-year stint as conductor of the Vienna Volksoper, Maag, 49, has been a freelancer in Europe's concert halls and opera houses for most of his musical life...
...next night, Maag was back again in Philharmonic Hall repeating his triumph with a program that included Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26, but was climaxed by Haydn's "Drumroll" Symphony. Key of E-flat...