The central movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132, written in the painful last years of his life, is a “holy song of gratitude.” Read650 and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts present a New Year’s celebration of healing arts: a curated series of five-minute, 650-word stories of gratitude from a cast of talented essayists, memoirists, and novelists—including Jamie Bernstein—followed by the New York Classical Players’ performance of Beethoven’s profound quartet.