MaestroAgainst the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half outback, half oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the maestro, a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. The occasion is a piano lesson, the first of many. "I enjoyed Maestro enormously. Besides its thoughtfulness and bright sensuality, it has a playful quality, a love of jest, which appealed to me very much."