LENNY!The one time I saw him in person, and got his autograph.
The NY Philharmonic was on tour, playing in Fort Lauderdale's cavernous War Memorial Auditorium.

The program opened with "Leonore" Overture No. 3, continued with
Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story", and ended with the Tchaikovsky Fourth. The
WSS finished changing my life that night (in a process the film had started just a few weeks before), and I probably didn't sleep or talk of anything else for the next three days.
The other two pieces on the concert were forever lost to an immediate and lasting amnesia.
At that point I didn't know about the recording, so when I went to one of the local record emporiums a day or two later and discovered it, with that amazing cover art using the photograph from the film, I just about lost my mind. I know I wore the first one out, and probably drove my family and friends completely nuts with it.