(Emil Gilels playing Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op.53, "The Waldstein")

To hear Beethoven's Waldstein Piano Sonata on the radio or on a stereo is beautiful. To hear this sonata performed live by a good pianist on a cold winter night is even more beautiful. And if the pianist happens to be a chubby mad genius called Emanuel Ax, then you move from the city of Beautiful to the city of Sublime. And if all of this happens at a concert for the proletariat ("for workers and students", for which you paid less than $10 and sat yourself down in a front row seat, then you just had a plain lucky evening.

Youz Nooyok peoples should get youz asses down to the remaining Peoples' Symphony Concerts and get lucky as well; jus sayin y'all.