Scoring for Strings

New York City. The noise. The lights. The seemingly never ending days. All that remains between Irene Austin and her move back home to England are four months, a single class, and her graduation recital. Yet as the excitement of leaving the city behind increases, so does the tension. What Irene had anticipated to be a rewarding final semester has been thrown off key by one professor, Dr. Diana Dávila.

Dr. Dávila is back living in Manhattan after fourteen years away, and not for the reasons she'd originally planned. After losing her audition spot with the Metropolitan Opera, she's been manipulated by her family into taking a teaching job at Juilliard. The last thing she wanted to be doing this spring was lecturing graduate students on composition. She dreams of creating unique scores and traveling the world to share them. Diana wants time to focus on composing for herself, but unfortunately that focus is quickly shattered. The student in the front row and her score for strings are out to ruin her tempo.