"I was listening to Brahms in Philadelphia, in 1942. I had a small record player. it was Brahms 2nd movement..." ("Doing Time" in Erections, p. 248)
Buk doesn't say if this is Brahms second movement of what symphony....
I believe there is a passage in another story/poem where Buk comments on the similarity of the theme of Brahms' First Symphony, last movement and the "Ode to Joy" theme in Beethoven's Ninth.
[TIME LAPSE].....
OK, I just looked up Robert Sandarg's "The Classical Buk" and he solves the problem: "In 'Doing Time with Public Enemy no. 1" Buk enigmatically writes of listening to 'Brahms' second movement' when arrested by FBI agents in Philadelphia. The second movement of which work?! This question is resolved in [the poem] 'ww 2': ''i am listening to the 2nd movement of brahms' 2nd symphony when there is a knock on the door.'"
What am I listening to? Well, Brahms 3d symphony was one of the first classical records I got when I was 15 years old and the first movement still knocks my socks off.
Now I am listening to Haydn symphonies, Thelonius Monk, and trying to play on the piano Beethoven Piano Sonata in E-flat major, Opus 27, no. 1. I ADORE THE LAST MOVEMENT OF THIS PIECE!!!!