Vivaldi saves

After happening to hear it on the classical music broadcast on a Soviet radio in north-west central Moscow during the winter of 1994/95, and then having the good fortune to go and listen to this movement during the then-inexpensive concerts in the Moscow Conservatory… for hours, especially during dark winter days, and weeks, and months, in fact years… the main elements of this music – whatever they be – helped keep my soul reconciled and sane.