Will the real W.A. Mozart please stand up?
Together with actor Ron Halder, George Zukerman has developed the GREAT MOZART HUNT - a dramatized concert in two acts.
With full symphony or chamber orchestra, professional, regional, community or university ensemble, from 50 players to as few as fifteen, Halder and Zukerman take audiences on a fascinating journey of discovery in the hunt for missing Mozart bassoon manuscripts.
Halder, in a multitude of roles and costumes, portrays Mozart. Salieri, Breitkopf, Koechel, Doernitz, The Impresario, The Learned Musicologist and a splendidly seedy 1930 vintage Private Eye.
 Zukerman who also wrote the script of the GREAT MOZART HUNT plays a recently discovered F Major concerto [Is it Mozart or not?], the authentic K. 191 bassoon concerto, and several anonymous solo bassoon works which may - or then again may not - be from the pen of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The Orchestra - with or without conductor - plays some true Mozart, some decidedly spurious works, and some genuinely anonymous pieces which could possibly be missing Mozartian gems.
It's music worth investigating!!
 The Belfast critics, Sean Fitzgerald was probably right when he wrote: "A Funny thing happened on the way to the bassoonist...." And no wonder Halder's Private Eye is heard muttering towards the close of the Second Act "Bassoon concertos ain't exactly my line of work......" In the end the audience is asked to help determine whether the recent discoveries are really by Mozart or not.
 Full music material is available in well bound "show" books. 6 to 7.5 hours of rehearsal is ample to produce the GREAT MOZART HUNT
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