2/7/2024 0 Comments Night music book![]() I stared into the dusty living room from the bottom step, not trusting my eyes-my ears even less. singing, leaping, laughing, dying, all in the time it took me to stumble-run downstairs. ![]() My piano, untouched for months, purring under his fingers like a stray cat. But can two people still figuring themselves out figure out how to be together? Or will the world make the choice for them?Ī stranger was playing my piano. Soon their connection crackles with the same alive, uncontainable energy as the city itself. Right? Right.īut as the New York City summer heats up, so does the spark between Ruby and Oscar. ![]() He's all too aware of how the ultra-privileged, ultra-white world of classical music might interpret a black guy like him falling for his benefactor's white daughter. But while he might be the type who'd name himself when asked about his favorite composer and somehow make you love him more for it, Oscar is not the type to jeopardize his chance to study under the great Martin Chertok-not for a crush. Just ask any of the 1.8 million people who've watched him conduct his own compositions on YouTube-or hey, just ask Oscar. And who is that again? All she knows is that she wants out of the orbit of her relentlessly impressive family, and away from the world of classical music for good. But after bungling her audition for the prestigious Amberley School of Music-where her father is on faculty-Ruby is suddenly just. Ruby has always been Ruby Chertok future classical pianist, heir to the Chertok family legacy, daughter of renowned composer Martin Chertok.
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