Symphony heist

the long version

"About to go on tour, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is suddenly paralyzed by the theft of all their priceless instruments. The truck carting them to the airport is hijacked and disappears. When no ransom demands come, and it slowly becomes apparent that there are political motives for the crime. The BSO was in fact about to go to Rio de Janeiro to play at a grand ceremony celebrating international corporate agreements on recording and performance royalties -- an agreement many of the musicians are against, but which their employers and managers advocate. Conflicted more than anyone is the prodigious first chair cellist, the young Melody Cavatina, who has been assigned to premier a cello concerto composed by her Brazilian-American lover Eduardo."--Amazon.com