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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: — Sixteen Hours Before the Curtain Falls
Chapter 3: — The Email That Changes Everything
Chapter 4: — The Lost Score in the Vault
Chapter 5: — The Doodles, the Ticket, and “Sorrow Is Everything Here”
Chapter 6: — JoR, Josephine Reed, and the Trunk in North Carolina
Chapter 7: — The Code Breaks, and the Foundation Strikes Back
Chapter 8: — The Past Speaks: Josephine and Freddy
Chapter 9: — The Long Arm of Justice
Chapter 10: — A New Dawn
Description
Symphony of Secrets follows Bern Hendricks, a Delaney Foundation “DF Kid” turned musicologist, who is summoned to New York to authenticate and prepare a newly discovered original score of Frederic Delaney’s infamous lost opera, RED. What begins as a career-defining dream quickly becomes an investigation into why the opera vanished, why Delaney’s late work collapsed, and what the Foundation is hiding behind nondisclosure agreements and locked archives.
As Bern and his tech-savvy friend Eboni Washington dig into Delaney’s cryptic “Doodles,” they uncover traces of Josephine Reed—a Black woman erased from the historical record. Their search turns into a dangerous battle over ownership, truth, and legacy, as the Delaney Foundation tightens its grip through intimidation and legal threats. The story alternates between modern-day sleuthing and historical chapters that reveal how Josephine and “Freddy” Delaney built genius together—and how greed and fear tore it apart.
Who Should Listen
- Listeners who enjoy music-centered mysteries with archival clues, secret histories, and a “lost masterpiece” hook
- Fans of stories about stolen credit, buried voices, and institutions protecting power at any cost
- Readers who like dual timelines where the present investigation exposes the emotional truth of the past