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I see this as two novellas, one a sequel to the other, and wonder why the author felt that they should be so rudely forced together. They're very different in style, in general sensibility, and in types of character. And the second part of the story is better than the telling--I just can't see how switching among narrators benefits the episode. I know the author's mostly a musician, but also Chrysander's flights of musical abstraction seemed jarring to me...a total change of narrative type and a breakdown in the pacing--as if certain passages were just cut and pasted from another story entirely.

Still, good bones.