Chapter 1: The ScoreThe package arrived on a Tuesday.No return address. Suki’s agent’s name on the outside, her name on the inside flap of the envelope, and inside the envelope a handwritten score of thirty-seven pages bound with a single piece of twine.A note, also handwritten:For Suki Tanaka. I heard you play the Ravel in Oslo in March. I wrote this for your hands. You don’t have to perform it. I only ask that you play it once, for yourself. If you want to know what I heard, it’s in the third movement. E. Morrow.She knew the name.Elias Morrow, fifteen years of contemporary composition, two major prizes, a reputation for writing music that was technically difficult in ways that couldn’t be taught, the difficulty coming from something in the architecture of the piece rather than from the technique itself. She’d performed one of his early works in her second year of conservatory and remembered the specific quality of it, the way it seemed to know something about the piano she had
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