The concert will be broadcast that evening on PBS's Live From Lincoln Center with Beverly Sills as host; that same feed — including the intermission features — will be transmitted to Lincoln Center's Josie Robertson Plaza and shown on a large screen suspended from the center columns of Avery Fisher Hall.

Only once before has the New York Philharmonic simulcast a concert onto the main plaza at Lincoln Center: the memorial performance of Brahms's German Requiem given nine days after the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Next Wednesday, thank goodness, will be a happier occasion.