This sounds like a brilliant concert on multiple levels. I love that Roman talked about his life as an integral part of the performance, rather than having some text in the program that people could read or ignore at any time. And inviting medical musicians to join him.

I mean, the concert-going tradition for classical music that I grew up with was just that there were these people who performed, and they interpreted the music. We didn't know much about them as people, only as musicians. Unless it was a student performance, in which case we knew some of the people directly, or it was Rachel Barton, who was in the news (getting caught under the commuter train that ran a mile from my parents' house).

(No masking? WTF, but not actually surprised.)