If you just turn on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and say “Hey, let’s listen to this…” yes, it’s true, kids might get bored after a couple minutes. Before doing that, if you say: “There was this amazing man, Beethoven, and he went deaf, and despite the fact that he went deaf, he wrote this sixty-minute Monument To Everything — I’m gonna cry just talking about it — and he wrote the most amazing symphony that anybody had written to date, and they premiered it, and the only person who couldn’t hear it at the premiere was *him*. Why are they engaged? Because you told them the reason why he wrote music is not just a bunch of blips and notes. He was an amazing character with an amazing story.